WSOP Paradise
https://www.wsop.com/news/2023/Jul/13916...
LAS VEGAS (July 17, 2023) – On the heels of a record-shattering summer, the richest, most prestigious and longest-running poker series – the World Series of Poker (WSOP) – is heading to paradise this winter to kick off a new live tournament poker series, WSOP Paradise. The newly minted series, made possible through a partnership with GGPoker, is set to take place from December 3-14, 2023, at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Thoughts?
Ostensibly an attempt to leverage the WSOP brand and the idea of "bracelets" to try to create a PCA clone.
Time frame collides with Wynn's WPT World Championship stuff.
Given the choice between the two, it's easy for me to stay stateside and fire an event or two at Wynn, which is a first class venue.
Summer WSOP is a unique spectacle, but I do think all the WSOP-adjacent stuff like WSOP-C, WSOP-E, online bracelets, and this new WSOP-P are cheap cash grabs that dilute the prestige of the brand. Since Americans can't play on GG, I suppose we're not the target audience though. Packages will be a carrot to rake the foreign market.
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Do they withhold taxes like in vegas?
I do not have a GG account. How easy is it to set up an account in the Bahamas? I am a non-American.
Debating last minute sending it to Atlantis for this. Would just be for 2 bullets for the mini main, so definitely setting myself up for failure ha... Did folks who went last year enjoy it? Honestly can't decide whether it'd be worth it, but wouldn't hate a beach vacation + poker. Any cash games at night?
Debating last minute sending it to Atlantis for this. Would just be for 2 bullets for the mini main, so definitely setting myself up for failure ha... Did folks who went last year enjoy it? Honestly can't decide whether it'd be worth it, but wouldn't hate a beach vacation + poker. Any cash games at
If you are wanting to have a good beach vacation while playing poker, I would recommend looking into WSOPC Aruba for example (1.6k ME) or perhaps Rio de Janeiro... Either way, no, Bahamas is not great by any means and will be a SHR fest this year. GL 
If you are wanting to have a good beach vacation while playing poker, I would recommend looking into WSOPC Aruba for example (1.6k ME) or perhaps Rio de Janeiro... Either way, no, Bahamas is not great by any means and will be a SHR fest this year. GL
Thanks, I appreciate the insight. Is the beach just not that great or something? Guessing it's crowded? That's a really good point about even the mini main being infested with SHR. Field's gotta be pretty -EV for a rec like me
Thanks, I appreciate the insight. Is the beach just not that great or something? Guessing it's crowded? That's a really good point about even the mini main being infested with SHR. Field's gotta be pretty -EV for a rec like me
The beach is nice, but that's the only good part of Bahamas ; if not, it is overpriced, overwhelmed by drug gang wars, and not really a place I fancy to visit.
The beach is nice, but that's the only good part of Bahamas ; if not, it is overpriced, overwhelmed by drug gang wars, and not really a place I fancy to visit.
I heard their tourism board is rolling out a new ad campaign… “The Bahamas… come for the beaches. Stay for the drug gang wars!”.
Idk why they don’t run a series in Asia. Bahamas seems incredibly random
