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WSOP Online 2026 Starts Today With a $30,000 Bonus on Every Bracelet

A $300 bracelet now carries exactly the same bonus as the $5,000 Main Event bracelet.

Published 2026.08.16
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Every one of the 33 official WSOP Gold Bracelets at WSOP Online 2026 carries a $30,000 Paradise package, whatever the buy-in. The six-week series opens today on GGPoker and runs to 29 September.

WSOP Online 2026 opens on GGPoker with 33 gold bracelets from 16 August

The package is one of three promotions sharing $5,000,000, and it is the one that changes how a player should pick events. The series calendar and the September clash with WCOOP sit in the full WSOP Online 2026 schedule.

Why a $300 Bracelet Is Worth the Same as the Main Event

The Super Pass, as GGPoker brands it, buys direct entry to the Super Main Event at WSOP Paradise, plus expenses. GGPoker has set $1,000,000 aside for it. Across 33 winners the bill comes to $990,000.

The pass does not scale with buy-in. A bracelet in the $300 Gladiators of Poker carries the same $30,000 as a bracelet in the $5,000 Main Event. That is 100 times the entry fee in the first case and six times it in the second.

Picking events: the pass is flat, so the added value per dollar of buy-in is highest at the bottom of the schedule. Field size and structure still decide whether that is worth chasing.

WSOP.com lists the 2026 WSOP Paradise dates and venue as 3 to 17 December at Baha Mar in Nassau. The schedule is unpublished, but the Super Main Event carried a $25,000 buy-in in 2025, so the pass covers entry with room for travel.

This is the international online series, and it runs separately from every bracelet won in Las Vegas this summer. GGPoker is not open to players in the United States.

The Seven Guarantees GGPoker Has Published

Buy-ins run from $250 to $10,000, with the WSOP Asia Championship the only event priced outside the dollar. Several events are listed by their Day 2 date rather than by the opening flight.

DateEventBuy-inGuarantee
17 AugGladiators of Poker, Day 2$300$3,000,000
24 AugMini Main Event, Day 2$500$5,000,000
30 AugWSOP Asia Championship, Day 2¥800¥25,000,000
31 AugMillionaire Maker$1,500$1,000,000 to first
7 SepMystery Millions$250$10,000,000, top bounty $1,000,000
21 SepWSOP Online Main Event$5,000$25,000,000
28 SepGGMillion$ High Rollers$10,000$10,000,000

The Millionaire Maker guarantees a first prize, not a prize pool. Dennis Volz took the 2024 edition for $1,287,142, beating José Eduardo Ferreira heads-up.

Mystery Millions is the cheapest way in at $250, and it is the only event in the table carrying a separate bounty prize.

The $5,000 Main Event carries the largest published guarantee at $25,000,000. Day 2 plays out on 21 September, with the final table the day after. The 2025 edition drew 5,961 entries for a $28,314,750 pool, and Benjamin Rolle won $3,900,707.

Where the Rest of the $5 Million Goes

Continental Flipouts take the largest share of the $5,000,000 at $3,000,000, split across four regions, with individual pools running up to $250,000.

Daniel Negreanu led with the promotions, not the guarantees.

“millions in extra value through Continental Flipouts and WSOP Paradise Super Passes” – Daniel Negreanu

He speaks as GGPoker Global Ambassador, in a year that already delivered Negreanu's eighth bracelet in Las Vegas.

Every bracelet event triggers a Flipout for players from the winner's region. GGPoker groups them as Americas, Europe, Eurasia and Asia Pacific.

The remaining $1,000,000 sits behind a country competition. The ten highest-ranked nations on the final bracelet leaderboard unlock country-exclusive freerolls.

The $30,000 WSOP Paradise Super Pass awarded to every WSOP Online 2026 bracelet winner

What Runs Today at WSOP Online 2026

Day 1 flights for the opening events run today. The first bracelet is decided tomorrow, when Gladiators of Poker reaches Day 2 with $3,000,000 guaranteed off a $300 buy-in.

Satellites and feeder tournaments run around the clock for the duration. The value is highest at the top of the schedule, where the $5,000 and $10,000 events sit outside most bankrolls.

Qualifying cheaply costs nothing in promotional value. A player who satellites into a bracelet event still counts for the Continental Flipouts and the country competition.

Two final tables are being broadcast on GGPoker.tv in September.

  • 22 September, 18:45 UTC: the $5,000 Main Event final table, hosted by Jeff Gross and Phil Hellmuth.
  • 29 September, 18:45 UTC: the $10,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers final table, hosted by Jeff Gross and Alex Foxen.

Anyone new to the qualifying route should read how satellite qualifying actually works before firing. Every player above the cutoff wins the same seat, so chips beyond the survival threshold carry no prize value. That inverts the usual incentive to accumulate.

What Comes Next

The schedule builds towards the Main Event on 21 September. More than $354,000,000 was won across the whole of the 2025 series, which makes the guarantees on this one a floor rather than a forecast.

The series closes on 29 September with the GGMillion$ High Rollers final table. By then 33 players will hold a bracelet and a Super Pass, and the Bahamas festival follows in December.

Whether the fields beat those guarantees is the story of the next six weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does WSOP Online 2026 start and finish?

WSOP Online 2026 runs from 16 August to 29 September on GGPoker, a six-week festival. The Main Event plays its Day 2 on 21 September, with the final table the day after.

How many bracelets are there at WSOP Online 2026?

There are 33 official WSOP Gold Bracelets. That has been the size of the international online schedule since 2021, and this is the seventh edition since the series launched in 2020.

What is the WSOP Paradise Super Pass worth?

Each bracelet winner receives a $30,000 Super Pass, covering direct entry to the Super Main Event at WSOP Paradise plus expenses. GGPoker has set $1,000,000 aside for it, which is $990,000 across the 33 winners.

Is the Super Pass the same for every event?

Yes. The pass is flat at $30,000 whatever the buy-in, so a bracelet in the $300 Gladiators of Poker is worth the same package as one in the $5,000 Main Event.

Can players in the United States enter WSOP Online 2026?

No. GGPoker does not accept players in the United States, so the bracelet series is open to international players only.

What is the WSOP Online 2026 Main Event guarantee?

The $5,000 Main Event guarantees $25,000,000, the largest published guarantee on the schedule. The 2025 edition drew 5,961 entries for a $28,314,750 prize pool.

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Mark Patrickson is the Head of Poker Content at VIP-Grinders, leading editorial direction and final sign-off on all poker coverage. A cash game specialist with over 20 years at the tables and millions of hands played, he has been writing for VIP-Grinders since 2018.
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