WSOP Announces Next Chapter For WSOP Paradise With Venue Change
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is set to usher in a new era for its winter flagship, WSOP Paradise, after confirming the festival will move from Atlantis Paradise Island to the luxury Baha Mar resort, also in the Bahamas.
The 2026 edition, slated to run from Tuesday, December 1 to Friday, December 18, will shuffle up and deal in a new home roughly six miles up the Bahamian coast from where Austria’s Bernhard Binder announced himself to the wider poker world, capturing the record-breaking 2025 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event just a few months ago.
In an announcement on social media platform X, the WSOP wrote, "The next chapter of WSOP Paradise is coming... Bigger. Better. Unmissable. This December, the world's fastest-growing poker event arrives at the stunning Baha Mar."
Check out the announcement video below:
A New Home for Paradise in Its Fourth Edition
2026 will mark the fourth edition of the WSOP's winter showpiece festival, after debuting in 2023 with a total of $50 million in guaranteed prize pools across 15 bracelet events.
Since then, the festival has gone from strength to strength, with 2025's WSOP Paradise Super Main Event smashing its $60 million guarantee, the largest single-tournament guarantee in poker history, after generating a monster prize pool of $72,275,000 from 2,891 runners.
The festival, a collaboration between GGPoker, the WSOP, and Triton Poker, has yet to announce its full 2026 schedule, although the dates of December 1-18 were confirmed around the festive period.
There will be extra attention on this year's WSOP Paradise, and not just because of its new home, as the festival will mark the final opportunity for players to bank points in the updated WSOP Player of the Year race, which was recently expanded to include all three of the WSOP's major festivals, alongside a $1 million winner's prize.
Turning to the venue itself, the beachfront Baha Mar offers all the amenities players have come to expect from WSOP Paradise, and then some, with 10 pools, a Jack Nicklaus-designed championship golf course, and over 40 restaurants, bars, and lounges providing plenty to keep players entertained away from the tables.
The resort also has a history of hosting major poker events, with the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) and PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC) both hosted at the Nassau resort.
