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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."
According to the WSOP LIVE app.
As football's most legendary coach, Vince Lombardi, once said, "Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing."
Forget the bad beats, one-outers, and misclicks—at the World Series of Poker, success is measured in green (and gold). From its inception in 1970 to the record-breaking 2024 edition, the series has seen some of poker's most unforgettable victories and created hundreds of millionaires.
Thanks to the poker boom (among other factors), it’s no shock that all of the WSOP’s biggest payouts have come in the last 25 years. The Main Event fields have exploded, and the rise of high-stakes tournaments has sent prize pools soaring to new heights.
According to the WSOP LIVE app.
When Kristen Foxen won the 2026 WSOP $25,000 High Roller, it was her first outright victory in a major nosebleed event. It was also the exclamation point on one of the most sustained periods of elite tournament poker anyone has produced in recent memory.
Since finishing 13th in the 2024 WSOP Main Event for $600,000, the six-time bracelet winner has been making final tables so regularly they might as well reserve her a seat. Few, if any, have come close to matching her record in that time. And with the WSOP just two weeks in, there's no indication she's stopping any time soon.
Four seven-figure scores. Twenty-three final tables. Nearly $11 million in prize money. Almost all of it earned against the best players in the world, in the toughest tournaments.
Day 1b of Event #63: $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em explodes into action from 10 a.m. local time. The event featured nearly 20,000 entries when it kicked off the 2025 WSOP at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, and another big field is expected this week.
Mystery bounties will begin on Day 2, with the top bounty once again guaranteed at $1,000,000. The eventual champion will also become a millionaire, as the tournament features a guaranteed $1,000,000 top prize.
Yesterday, 1,643 players took to the felt, with only 76 advancing to Day 2. Check out the top 10 chip counts, according to the WSOP LIVE app, in the table below.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo Soma | France | 3,180,000 | 80 |
| 2 | Vincent Lavollee | France | 2,200,000 | 55 |
| 3 | Emmanouil Chalkiotis | Greece | 2,120,000 | 53 |
| 4 | Brad Sailor | United States | 1,950,000 | 49 |
| 5 | Jian Levine | United States | 1,701,500 | 43 |
| 6 | Donald Fulton | United States | 1,700,000 | 43 |
| 7 | Jakob Miegel | Germany | 1,650,000 | 41 |
| 8 | JC Tran | United States | 1,610,000 | 40 |
| 9 | Andre Cullins | United States | 1,610,000 | 40 |
| 10 | Armen Minasyan | Armenia | 1,535,000 | 38 |
The second of six starting flights gets underway at 10 a.m. local time, with starting stacks of 40,000 chips and blinds of 100/200. Levels will be 30 minutes long for the first five flights, while Day 1f will see 20-minute levels.
Players will get 20-minute breaks after every four levels, along with a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 12 (~7 p.m.). The tournament features two reentries per flight, and late registration remains open for the first 12 levels of each starting flight.
Last year’s edition was won by Michael Wilklow, who navigated through a massive field of 19,654 entries to claim the $1,000,000 first-place prize.
Two $1,000,000 bounties were also awarded, going to Tyler Montoya and Thomas Zanot.
Malcolm Trayner took the bracelet in 2024, while Tyler Brown took home the $1,000,000 top prize in 2023.
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Event #63: $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em
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