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20 Sep 2024
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Triton Poker Million to Take Place at WSOP Paradise
- Triton Million returns as $500,000 Buy-In Event
- Takes Place at WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas in December 2024
- WPT, WSOP & EPT December Dates Clash
Triton Poker Series Million at WSOP Paradise
The Triton Poker Series Million Will Take Place at the WSOP Paradise Festival in the Bahamas
The Triton Poker Series has announced that it will hold a second iteration of the Triton Million as part of the WSOP Paradise schedule in the Bahamas in December 2024.
Earlier this year Triton Series Tournament Director Luca Vivaldi teased that the Triton Million would be returning this year and he has not disappointed in this regard.
It was first held in London in 2019 when 54 players paid £1m to enter and was won by Aaron Zhang, who took £13.78m for the win. Second placed finisher Bryn Kenney cashed for even more, £16.89m, as the players did a deal heads-up before Zhang went on to record the victory.
It’s an invite only event which balances professional and non-professional players equally in the field. Professionals can only play by being invited by one of the non-professional players.
However, technically this should probably be called the Triton Half Million as the buy-in for the 2024 edition has been slashed to $500,000. It will begin on 7th December. Full details of the schedule for this tournament are yet to be released.
Combining the Triton Poker Super High Roller event with WSOP Paradise seems like a perfect match and presents an opportunity for this version to be much bigger than the original 2019 Triton Million.
December’s Big Three Live Poker Festivals
December 2024 will once again be the most competitive month of the year, with all the major global operators running major events. The WSOP Paradise, the WPT World Championship and EPT Prague are the three biggies that players will have to make a choice between.
With each event connected to a major online poker room, players have the opportunity to satellite into all three of these events:
| Festival | Dates | Location | Key Events | Guarantees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSOP Paradise | 6-19 Dec, 2024 | Bahamas | $25,000 Super Main Event, $500,000 Triton Million | $50m on Super Main Event |
| WPT World Championship | 3-23 Dec, 2024 | Las Vegas | $10,400 WPT World Championship, $1,100 WPT Prime World Championship | To be Announced |
| EPT Prague | 4-15 Dec, 2024 | Prague | €5,300 EPT Main Event, €1,100 Eureka Poker Tour Main Event | None/To be Announced |
WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas
WSOP Paradise has been billed as a high roller series, featuring $25,000 buy-in Super Main Event and the smallest event in the schedule will have a $2,500 price tag.
The Super Main Event has an unprecedented $50m guarantee, which is $10m more than the $40m which the WPT World Championship had in 2023. The series will run from the 6th to the 19th December, 2024
Satellites to WSOP Paradise will be held on GG Poker, however they are not yet available. The site is currently qualifying players into the WSOP Europe Main Event, with a WSOP Paradise satellite promotion expected to be revealed soon.
WPT World Championship at Wynn, Las Vegas
The World Poker Tour has not yet announced the size of the guarantees for the WPT World Championship or the WPT Prime World Championship, but the news of the $50m Super Main Event guarantee and the Triton Million should hasten a response from the World Poker Tour.
The highlights of the WPT winter festival will be the $10,400 WPT World Championship and $1,100 WPT Prime World Championship. The festival begins on December 3rd and continues until December 23rd, 2024.
Players can qualify online for both Championship events at WPT Global via the online poker site’s WPT Passport Dollars promotion, which gives players who win packages the flexibility to choose when and where to use them. This effectively means that players can already qualify in July for the WPT Championships that don’t take place until December.
EPT Prague at the Hilton, Prague
The third of the major events in this repeat of 2023’s Clash of the Poker Titans is the European Poker Tour’s traditional pre-Christmas festival, which combines the high stakes EPT with the mid-stakes Eureka Poker Tour.
This is one of the most popular stops on the tour and although many tour regulars abandoned the event in the last couple of years for the WPT World Championship and the WSOP Bahamas events, it still managed to grow, posting record numbers in 2023.
The EPT does not put guarantees on its Main Events, nor on most of its side events, but still attracts large fields, due to the history, prestige and reputation that PokerStars' tours have for being exceptionally well run, player focused live poker events.
Online qualification for the €5,300 EPT Main Event and the €1,100 Eureka Poker Tour Main Event take place exclusively on PokerStars. The site’s Power Path promotion is the main route for players looking to win their way to Prague, but dedicated satellites specifically for Prague are likely to take place from late September onwards.
