Dante Goya and Bernardo Neves Close Out WSOP Paradise With WinsA Look At The Final Two Bracelets Awarded At The Bahamas Festival |
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The inaugural World Series of Poker Paradise festival is now officially complete. 15 bracelets were awarded during the 12-day series. Full results have been released for the 13 live events held at the Atlantis Resort & Casino Paradise Island, with info on the two online events expected in the coming days. The live events awarded more than $68.8 million, with more than 15,300 entries made across those 13 tournaments.
Below is a look at the final two tournaments that wrapped up on the last day of the festival.
WSOP Paradise $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha $1 Million GTD
The second of two pot-limit Omaha high rollers on the schedule saw 104 entries made at $10,000, surpassing the $1 million guarantee. The top 16 finishers made the money, with $277,700 for the eventual champion: Dante Goya.
The Brazilian now has more than $586,000 in career earnings. This was his third WSOP final-table finish of the year, having previously placed eighth in the 2023 WSOP Online $400 colossus and third in a $840 pot-limit Omaha bounty event.
Other big names that ran deep included two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer (17th), two-time bracelet winner Sam Soverel (14th), ten-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Jeffrey Trudeau (10th), six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh (8th), bracelet winner Isaac Haxton (7th), bracelet winner Bryce Yockey (3rd), and three-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy (2nd).
Haxton earned 150 Card Player Player of the Year points for his 25th final-table finish of 2023. With seven titles won and nearly $14.6 million in to-date POY earnings, Haxton remains in second place in the POY standings presented by Global Poker. He also secured 39 PokerGO Tour points, adding to his lead in that high-stakes-centric points race.
Collopy climbed to 21st in the POY standings as a result of his runner-up finish. This was his 15th final-table run of 2023.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Dante Goya | $277,700 | 600 | 278 |
| 2 | Jim Collopy | $171,200 | 500 | 171 |
| 3 | Bryce Yockey | $120,900 | 400 | 121 |
| 4 | James Casement | $87,600 | 300 | 88 |
| 5 | Gavin Andreanoff | $65,100 | 250 | 65 |
| 6 | Yuriy Anisimov | $49,800 | 200 | 50 |
| 7 | Isaac Haxton | $39,100 | 150 | 39 |
| 8 | Josh Arieh | $31,700 | 100 | 32 |
| 9 | Stefan Lehner | $26,400 | 50 | 26 |
$2,000 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty Turbo $1 Million GTD
The $2,000 no-limit hold’em turbo bounty event was dubbed ‘The Closer’, a last-chance dance for players to try to get their hands on a bracelet before departing the Caribbean.
The player who ended up succeeding in that endeavor was Portugal’s Bernardo Neves. He outlasted a field of 406 entries to secure his first piece of WSOP hardware and $166,000 from the main prize pool. Neves also took home 720 POY points for the win.
The top 61 finishers made the money, with notables like two-time World Poker Tour champion Jonathan Little (44th), Raminder Singh (10th), and Natasha Mercier (5th) running deep.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Bernardo Neves | $166,000 | 720 |
| 2 | Archibald Seaton | $101,000 | 600 |
| 3 | Aria Shahi | $69,500 | 480 |
| 4 | Lucas Aleandri | $48,800 | 360 |
| 5 | Natasha Mercier | $35,000 | 300 |
| 6 | Andrey Plotnikov | $25,600 | 240 |
| 7 | Steven Desjarlais | $19,100 | 180 |
| 8 | Alexander Zubov | $14,500 | 120 |
| 9 | Hyungyu Park | $11,300 | 60 |
Winner photo credits: WSOP / Tomas Stacha, Matthew Berglund.
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