https://www.wsop.com/news/2023/Jul/1...-PARADISE.html
Quote:
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.