World Series of Poker announces biggest prize guarantee for winter series
The World Series of Poker has this week announced its record-breaking prize for its Paradise 2025 event, otherwise known as the winter series.
It can now be revealed it will be headlined by a $60,000,000 Super Main Event which is reported to be the largest prize guarantee in live poker tournament history.
The No Limit Hold’em Super Main Event Championship requires a buy-in of a hefty $25K, with the overall tournament prize guarantee being $10,000,000 higher than what was seen last year. The 24-year-old Yinan Zhou was the star of the show in 2024, as he outlasted a 1,977 field and claimed the $6M winner’s prize.
“They called us crazy last year for launching the Super Main Event with the biggest live tournament guarantee ever, so consider this a re-raise,” said Ty Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of WSOP, in a press release.
“WSOP Paradise is here to stay, and we’re making poker history once again, with the $60,000,000 guarantee and some new signature events. The expanded partnership with Triton, alongside the new Super Mystery Bounty kickoff event, headlines what is a can’t-miss winter festival.”
When is the World Series of Poker winter series?The series will kick off on December 4 and will play through to December 18, with this being the third iteration of the event.
It’ll be held at the ocean-themed casino resort of Atlantis Paradise Island which is in the Bahamas. The festival will include:
- Event #1: WSOP Circuit Championship Mystery Bounty (Dec. 4) – $2,500 buy-in (all WSOP Circuit ring event winners from July 1 through Dec 2. will receive an exclusive $5K Ticket to Paradise package that includes entry to Event #1)
- Event #3: Triton Pot Limit Omaha Main Event (Dec. 5) – $100K buy-in
- Event #5: Triton Invitational (Dec. 7) – $250K buy-in (the field will be evenly split between invited players from the worlds of business and entertainment, and their professional poker player guests)
- Event #9: Triton No Limit Hold’em Main Event (Dec. 9) – $100K buy-in
- Event #14: GGMillion$ (Dec. 15) – $25K buy-in – $10M prize guarantee
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