WSOP Paradise Adds Solana Buy-Ins and $120 Million in Guarantees
The Bahamas series returns to Baha Mar with 20 bracelet events, a $50 million Super Main Event and new mixed-game formats.
WSOP Paradise 2026 is set for December 2 through December 18 at Baha Mar in the Bahamas, with 20 bracelet events and $120 million in guarantees. The festival is also billed as the final major WSOP bracelet series of the year, so it will settle the 2026 Player of the Year race. The headline events are a $25,000 Super Main Event with a $50 million guarantee and a $10,000 GGMillion$ No Limit Hold’em Championship with $20 million in guaranteed prizes, according to Pokerfuse’s schedule release.
The rest of the lineup mixes familiar Paradise staples with new formats. Buy-ins start at $2,500 and rise as high as $250,000 for the WSOP Invitational, while the schedule adds mixed games, mixed PLO/NLH, and bomb pot events. The 2026 edition will not include the Triton partnership that featured several events in the previous two years.
As covered in June, WSOP had already said it would bring Solana buy-ins to the series and extend the crypto option to Paradise. The Bahamas festival will add Solana for both buy-ins and cashouts for the first time in the series, while PokerNews noted that Solana handled $23 million in payments during the 2026 WSOP in Las Vegas, about 6% of all buy-ins.
PokerNews identified Event #1 as Circuit Championship Mystery Bounty NLH, beginning December 2 with a $2,500 buy-in and a $5 million guarantee.
The bigger-ticket travel offers are back too. The $100,000 Paradise Package includes a 16-night stay at Baha Mar from December 2 through December 18 in a Deluxe Room, requires at least $100,000 in tournament buy-ins, and asks players to enter both GGMillion$ Day 1A and Super Main Event Day 1A. A $5,000 deposit is due by October 31.
The $300,000 VIP Package pushes the buy-in commitment to $300,000, adds a 16-night suite stay, and includes VIP fast-track arrival service, round-trip SUV transfers, and complimentary buffet access. It also requires players to play both GGMillion$ Day 1A and Super Main Event Day 1A, with a $10,000 deposit due by October 31.
The 2026 edition is the fourth WSOP Paradise after debuting in 2023 with 15 bracelet events and $50 million in guarantees. Last year’s Super Main Event drew 2,891 entries and produced a $72,275,000 prize pool, well above the then-$60 million guarantee, with Bernhard Binder beating Jean-Noel Thorel heads-up. Daily WSOP Paradise action is scheduled to stream from December 5 at 3 p.m. ET on the official WSOP YouTube channel.
