When the WSOP announced its 12-day festival in the Bahamas, it decided on a $5,300 buy-in $15m-guarantee Main Event with a $10m-guarantee Highroller, a $5m-guarantee Mystery Bounty, a $5m-guarantee Millionaire Maker, and eleven smaller side events. The online Day 1s will make the fields automatically more sharky while this qualifier hotel and lunch tax is a standout curmudgeonly act that I have never seen before by an operator. This week, GGPoker made the idea of attending the WSOP Bahamas even less enticing as it added online Day 1s and announced that it was deducting money from the guaranteed prize pools to pay for 11-night hotel stays and daily free lunch buffets for each of the qualifiers ($6,500 per player). Add to that a long history of winning players being hassled at the border and it actually generated a lot of negative comparisons.Ī standout curmudgeonly act that I have never seen before by an operator The idea of playing poker in an unpopular and over-priced hotel during the off-season in a country where the local population cannot play generated close to zero buzz. In August, they released their 15-event $50m schedule and there was noticeably little furore. In the few paragraphs that I actually contributed myself, I echoed those feelings, wondering if GGPoker and WSOP had made a misstep by choosing to go toe to toe to toe with two of the year’s biggest festivals on either side of the pond. It was noteworthy how only two people had anything nice to say and most were extremely negative about the WSOP at the Atlantis.

From a sample size of 21 notable players from Europe and North America, it culminated in plenty of compliments for EPT Prague, but a resounding endorsement of the WPT World Championships. Last week, I shamelessly got other people to write the bulk of my article on the upcoming mêlée-à-trois between the World Poker Tour (WPT) Wynn, European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague and World Series of Poker (WSOP) Bahamas.

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