2023 World Series of Poker Paradise

2023 World Series of Poker Paradise
2023 World Series of Poker Paradise
Location	Atlantis Paradise Island, The Bahamas
Dates	December 3–14, 2023
Champion
	Stanislav Zegal

The 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise was the inaugural version of the event. It was held from December 3–14 at Atlantis Paradise Island in The Bahamas and featured 15 bracelet events.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced the festival in July, in partnership with GGPoker. The $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event began on December 9, with Stanislav Zegal of Germany being crowned the first-ever champion on December 14.^[1]

Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel became the fifth player in WSOP history with 10 bracelets when he won Event #7: $50,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em.^[2]

Event Schedule

Erik Seidel won his 10th WSOP bracelet in Event 7

Artur Martirosian won his second bracelet of 2023 in Event 11

Source:^[3]

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
1	$1,500 Mystery Millions	3,446	Jinhoon Lee (1/1)	$420,000	Max Pinnola
2	$1,425 Millionaire Maker in Paradise	3,496	Allan Mello (1/1)	$1,000,000	Nazar Buhaiov
3	$25,000 GGMillion$ High Roller Championship	533	Samuel Mullur (1/1)	$2,736,300	Frank Brannan
4	$1,000 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em	2,234	Martin Raus (1/1)	$334,380	Josef Snejberg
5	$25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha	140	Nikolaos Lampropoulos (1/1)	$871,600	Dan Shak
6	$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	755	Boris Kolev (1/2)	$424,550	Daniel Neilson
7	$50,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	137	Erik Seidel (1/10)	$1,704,400	Seth Gottlieb
8	$2,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha Online	668	Benjamin Wilinofsky (2/2)	$113,079	Asheque Elahi
9	$100,000 Ultra High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	111	Masashi Oya (1/1)	$2,940,000	Jason Koon (0/1)
10	$5,000 Main Event Championship	3,010	Stanislav Zegal (1/1)	$2,000,000	Michael Sklenicka
11	$740 Flip & Go	767	Artur Martirosian (2/2)	$110,591	Dongwuk Moon
12	$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout Online	1,336	Anton Bardziyan (1/1)	$178,261	Yuri Rodrigues
13	$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship	104	Dante Goya (1/1)	$277,700	Jim Collopy (1/3)
14	$2,000 The Closer Turbo Bounty	406	Bernardo Neves (1/1)	$166,000	Archibald Seaton
15	$10,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	169	Dong Chen (1/1)	$411,659	Thomas Santerne

Main Event

The $5,000 Main Event began on December 9 with the first of four starting flights. There was also an online flight held on GGPoker. The event featured a $15 million guaranteed prize pool.^[4]

The Main Event drew 3,010 total entries, generating a prize pool of $15,050,000.^[5] The top 447 players made the money, with the champion earning $2,000,000.

Stanislav Zegal, a German online qualifier, won the inaugural bracelet after defeating Michael Sklenicka heads-up. The final table also included Matt Glantz and WSOP bracelet winner Gabriel Schroeder.^[6]

Final Table

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Daniel Neilson	37,400,000 (24.9%)	0	42	$1,004,597
Gabriel Schroeder	28,000,000 (18.6%)	1	40	$389,125
Stanislav Zegal	28,000,000 (18.6%)	0	7	$9,759
Rui Sousa	20,700,000 (13.8%)	0	12	$55,626
Michael Sklenicka	16,000,000 (10.6%)	0	9	$334,593
Matt Glantz	15,500,000 (10.3%)	0	75	$3,612,513
Montgomery McQuade	4,900,000 (3.3%)	0	0	0

*Career statistics prior to the start of the 2023 WSOP Paradise Main Event

Final Table results


Place	Name	Prize
1st	Stanislav Zegal	$2,000,000
2nd	Michael Sklenicka	$1,200,000
3rd	Daniel Neilson	$900,000
4th	Matt Glantz	$685,000
5th	Rui Sousa	$510,000
6th	Gabriel Schroeder	$400,000
7th	Montgomery McQuade	$300,000
8th	Luke Graham	$250,000

Other notable high finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
10th	Mikita Badziakouski	$150,000
20th	Timothy Adams	$90,000
35th	David Peters	$58,300
39th	Sam Greenwood	$58,300
46th	Mustapha Kanit	$47,500
71st	Adrián Mateos	$26,800
87th	Daniel Weinman	$19,000
91st	Davidi Kitai	$19,000
98th	Daniel Negreanu	$19,000