2020 World Series Of Poker

For over half a century, the World Series of Poker has been the most recognized name in all of poker. Since 2013, it also has been a big part of online poker in the United States, with sites in multiple states.

WSOP.com first went live in Nevada in September 2013. Shortly after, it launched an online poker room in New Jersey. Soon it will be adding sites in Pennsylvania and Michigan as well.

In 2017, New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware entered into a multi-state internet gambling agreement. Starting in 2018, WSOP.com began combining its player pools in Nevada and New Jersey with those at 888 Poker in Delaware. Being able to share players in this way has meant increased liquidity and larger tournament fields on all of those sites.

In addition to a variety of cash games, sit and go’s and multi-table tournaments, WSOP.com frequently runs popular tournament series on its sites. These can include special ring and bracelet events that often attract big turnouts and feature large prize pools.

Read on for an overview of what players can expect when playing poker at WSOP.com, including information about each of the sites in states where it operates. We’ll cover welcome bonuses and other promotions, the WSOP.com Poker Rewards loyalty program, instructions for signing up for an account, information about banking options, and other details regarding site features and game selection.

WSOP.com sign up bonuses

Like other online poker rooms, World Series of Poker online has multiple welcome offers to entice new customers. This includes a $10 no deposit bonus and a deposit bonus for up to $1,000 matched.

$10 no deposit bonus

When signing up use the WSOP promo code 10FREE to claim a $10 no deposit bonus. The money is available immediately, and you can use it in low-stakes cash games, sit and go’s or multi-table tournaments. The bonus lets you try the site without having to deposit and risk your own money.

100% match deposit bonus

New players can also receive a 100% deposit match bonus up to $1,000. This bonus is available when you make your first deposit on the site. That means if your first deposit is $100, for instance, you can receive another $100 as a bonus.

In this case, you’ll need to meet a playthrough requirement to claim the bonus. Players on WSOP.com accumulate action player points as they play. You receive APPs whenever you play a raked hand in a cash game or pay a fee when entering a sit and go or tournament.

As you play, you’ll unlock $5 of bonus money for every 50 APPs you collect. Also, the offer has a time limit. Once you make your first deposit, you have 90 days to satisfy the playthrough requirement and unlock the full bonus. Overall, the deposit match bonus rivals what other sites offer and can provide a nice bankroll boost when you start out on the site.

Welcome Week Freerolls

WSOP.com has one other offer for new players, Welcome Week Freerolls. This promotion is also tied to players making a first deposit on the site.

Once players make an initial deposit of at least $10, they are then eligible to enter one freeroll tournament on each day for the next seven days. These tournaments happen each night and currently feature $100 prize pools. You get to play seven of these Welcome Week Freerolls, one each day for the first week after making a deposit.

WSOP Promo Codes 2021

Real Money Online Poker Site	WSOP.com
Promo Code	GET10 (NV), 10FREE (NJ)
Total Poker Bonus	$1,060
Deposit Bonus	100% match up to $1,000 + $50 with $10 deposit
No Deposit Bonus	$10 free

WSOP online poker promotions

The WSOP site also offers a variety of ongoing promotions across all of its sites. These vary depending on which state you are in, but frequently include the following:

Freerolls
Tournaments with added cash prizes
Reload bonuses
Leaderboards
Sweepstakes drawings

Freeroll tournaments take a variety of forms. With some, anyone can play. Others require players to have a certain number of APPs or satisfy some other criteria to play, but there is no entry fee like in other tournaments. The freerolls award either cash or tournament tickets.

Sometimes WSOP.com will run tournaments for which it adds cash to the prize pools. These still cost money to play, but the prize pools are a little bigger thanks to the added cash. Like other online poker rooms, WSOP.com also offers occasional reload bonuses. These work like the deposit match bonus, except they are available to everyone and not just new players. Make a deposit and receive a 100% matching bonus up to a certain maximum (say, $500). Like the deposit match bonus, these bonuses will have a playthrough requirement.

WSOP.com additionally hosts leaderboards for which top performers win cash, tournament tickets and other prizes. For example, you will find sit and go and BLAST leaderboards. Also on its NJ and NV sites, WSOP has featured a yearlong Player of the Year Leaderboard. Players accumulate POY points all year for cashing in tournaments, and the winner gets $10,000 cash, $1,500 in tournament tickets and a WSOP ring.

The WSOP site will sometimes also offer sweepstakes for its players to enter. For example, it has had a drawing in which the winner received an entry into the $10,000 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas.

WSOP Poker Rewards loyalty program

WSOP.com introduced a newly designed loyalty program in 2018, calling it the WSOP Poker Rewards program. When you sign up for an account and start playing, you automatically enroll in the program.

WSOP Poker Rewards works like most loyalty programs that use a tier-based system. The amount you play on the site determines your rewards. The more you play, the more cash you get back.

Action player points and Poker Rewards levels

Whenever you play a cash game, a sit and go or a tournament on the WSOP site, you accumulate action player points. The APPs are calculated according to how much rake you contribute in cash games or how much in fees you pay when playing sit and go’s and tournaments.

The number of APPs you collect in a month determines your Poker Rewards “loyalty status.” Your status level then determines how much cash you can get back. You accrue APPs at the following rates:

Cash games: 2 APPs for every $1 players contribute to the rake in hands played.
Tournaments and sit and go’s: 2 APPs for every $1 in fees.

For instance, if you play a $215 tournament in which $200 goes to the prize pool and $15 counts as a fee, you earn 30 APPs. At the end of each month, WSOP.com adds up all of the APPs you’ve earned that month to determine your loyalty status. Here are the different Poker Rewards levels and the number of APPs each requires:

Player: 0 to 199.99 APPs in a month
Bronze: 200 to 749.99 APPs in a month
Silver: 750 to 1,499.99 APPs in a month
Elite: 1,500+ APPs in a month
Champions Club: 20,000+ APPs in a year

Converting APPs to cash

In order to collect cash back, you need to convert your APPs to WSOP points and then exchange those for cash. Your loyalty status affects the conversion rate as follows:

Player: 1 APP = 1 WSOP point
Bronze: 1 APP = 4 WSOP points
Silver: 1 APP = 10 WSOP points
Elite: 1 APP = 12.5 WSOP points
Champions Club: 1 APP = 16 WSOP points

Once you’ve converted APPs to WSOP points, you can then redeem those points at a rate of 100 WSOP points for $1. When you do, the cash appears in your account right away with no restrictions. You can withdraw the money or use it to play more games.

The WSOP Poker Rewards program improves on the site’s earlier loyalty program in which players had to move up levels before they could start accruing cash back. With this program, even those playing at lower stakes and for less volume can start earning the payouts, and those in the middle and upper tiers can earn considerable rewards.

It’s worth noting also that players who have Caesars Rewards accounts with Caesars Entertainment can also connect those accounts to their WSOP.com profiles. They then can earn Caesars tier credits right along with their APPs at a rate of one credit per point.

WSOP.com Nevada

When WSOP launched an online poker site in Nevada in September 2013, it was one of the first legal, real money online poker sites in the US. WSOP NV is operated by Caesars Interactive Entertainment. Caesars is the site’s land-based partner in the state, while 888 Holdings is its tech partner. The Nevada Gaming Commission oversees online poker in the state.

Initially, WSOP NV was “ring-fenced,” meaning the player pool came from Nevada only. Eventually a multi-state agreement allowed WSOP NV to share players with WSOP NJ as well as the 888 Poker site in Delaware starting in 2018.

The WSOP Nevada promo code is GET10 where the poker bonus is worth up to $1,060 total.

WSOP.com New Jersey

WSOP.com launched an online poker room in New Jersey in November 2013. WSOP NJ is operated by Caesars in conjunction with 888 Holdings, with Caesars Atlantic City as its land-based partner. The site is licensed and regulated by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.

Like the Nevada site, New Jersey players at WSOP initially only played against one another. As noted, since 2018 players on WSOP NJ have been able to compete against those at WSOP NV and the 888 Poker Delaware site.

The WSOP NJ promo code is 10FREE where the poker bonus is worth up to $1,060 total.

WSOP.com Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania first legalized online gambling in 2017, and after a couple of years the first online casinos and poker sites began to appear.

In September 2020, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board approved the application of Caesars’ online partner 888 Holdings for an interactive gaming manufacturer license. PA also requires online poker sites to have a land-based partner. In the case of WSOP.com, that partner is Harrah’s Philadelphia Casino and Racetrack.

Nearly everything is in place, then, for WSOP Pennsylvania to launch. The site had indicated it hopes to be live by the summer of 2021. At the very least, it should be live by the time the 2021 World Series of Poker begins in late September.

WSOP.com Michigan

Michigan first legalized online gambling in late 2019. The first online casinos and poker sites went live in the state in January 2021. In Michigan, online poker is regulated by the Michigan Gaming Control Board.

As in other states, online poker sites need to partner with a land-based, licensed gambling entity to operate in the state. Caesars’ agreement to purchase William Hill may provide WSOP.com the avenue in needs to come to Michigan. In early 2020, William Hill made an agreement with the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Michigan, which could facilitate the launch of WSOP MI in the near future.

Signing up for an account at WSOP.com

To register at the WSOP site, you need to be at least 21 years old, regardless of your state. Start by visiting the website and downloading the software either to your computer or mobile device. The site will automatically detect which state you are in as well as what kind of device you are using.

You can play at WSOP.com on either a desktop or laptop computer (PC or Mac) or a mobile device, either Apple or Android. Once you’ve downloaded and opened the site, you can then register an account. You’ll have to enter some personal information:

Full name
Date of birth
Phone number
Physical address
Country of residency
Social Security number

You’ll additionally choose a username and password, and set up a security question. Providing this information helps WSOP.com know you are who you say you are. It also helps regulators ensure the site’s integrity and your security when playing on it.

World Series of Poker website features

Note: Current plans include a major update at WSOP.com, with the site planning to employ the new Poker 8 software from its partner, 888 Holdings. The following discussion of site features reviews the pre-upgrade WSOP.com site.

The WSOP.com software runs smoothly and offers players an easy-to-navigate interface. Players visiting the site will immediately encounter the familiar WSOP logo and red-and-black theme, making the site aesthetically pleasing in addition to being intuitive.

Along the top, you will find tabs showing the available games sorted into categories. There is a “quick seat” option as well that lets you skip the lobby and grab a seat right away at your preferred game type, table and stakes.

The lobby is quite detailed, but easy enough to use. When it comes to cash games, players can see at a glance what is happening at each active table. Here is the information you’ll find:

Game type
Stakes
Players seated
Average pot size
Percentage of players seeing flop
Hands played per hour
Players on wait list

Heading over to the tournament lobby, you’ll also find a lot of information about what is available, including game type, buy-in, players registered and tournament status. You can filter the lobby however you like so as to highlight preferred games. There’s also a “Beginners” tab that does this filtering for you, presenting just a few low-stakes cash games, sit and go’s and tournaments.

There are numerous ways to customize settings. You can resize tables, make them tile or cascade when multi-tabling, show your folded cards, automatically activate the time bank, employ various shortcut keys and more. There’s a note-taking feature, as well. Chat was once available, but the site has that disabled.

The site has updated its features only occasionally over the years since WSOP.com first launched in Nevada and New Jersey in 2013. As a result, the look and feel may appear a little dated to some players. Still, the site works well and is more than adequate when it comes to being able to find cash games and register for tournaments, as well as for actual gameplay.

WSOP poker app

As noted above, you can play WSOP.com on a mobile device by downloading the app. The World Series of Poker app contains most of the same features as the desktop client, and is available both for iOS and Android.

Previous versions of the app did not allow players to multi-table. Also, the app version only offered Hold’em and Omaha games, which meant players could not play seven-card stud on the app. These were significant drawbacks, although the situation might improve with the anticipated site upgrade.

Game selection at WSOP online

WSOP.com offers a nice variety of cash games, sit and go’s and tournaments.

Cash games

When it comes to cash games, WSOP.com has Texas Hold’em (no limit and fixed limit), Omaha (pot limit, pot limit hi-lo and fixed limit hi-lo) and seven card stud (high only and hi-lo). As is the case everywhere, No Limit Texas Hold’em is by far the most popular game, so that’s where most of the action is.

To give an idea of the range of stakes, here is what players in New Jersey currently see when they log in to the WSOP NJ site:

No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Hold’em: $0.01/$0.02 to $200/$400
Fixed Limit Hold’em: $0.05/$0.10 to $200/$400
Pot Limit Omaha: $0.01/$0.02 to $25/$50
Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo: $0.05/$0.10 to $5/$10
Fixed Limit Omaha Hi-Lo: $0.05/$0.10 to $30/$60
Seven card stud: $0.02/$0.04 and $0.05/$0.10
Seven card stud hi-lo: $0.02/$0.04 and $0.05/$0.10

What stakes are active obviously depends on the player pool and who is online at the time.

Sit and go’s and BLAST

WSOP.com features sit and go tournaments, with stakes starting at $0.25 and going as high as $200. Games available include NLHE, PLO and PLO8. There are heads-up sit and go’s, six-handed ones and nine-handed ones. You’ll also find different speeds (regular, turbo and super turbo). The stakes and games that are available depends on what players want to play.

WSOP.com also features BLAST tournaments, a spin and go-style lottery sit and go at super turbo speed. These timed tournaments are four-handed, and when the clock expires, players automatically go all in each hand until someone wins. Stakes go from $0.10 to $30, with the largest jackpots at 10,000 times the buy-in. That means a possible prize of $300,000 for a $30 BLAST game.

Tournaments

The World Series of Poker is synonymous with tournaments, so it’s no surprise to see tournaments prominently featured on WSOP.com. No matter what state you’re in, the site consistently offers a variety of multi-table tournaments ranging from freerolls and $1 buy-in events up to $500 weekly tournaments.

WSOP.com also frequently hosts tournament series, including WSOP Circuit series. When the World Series of Poker is playing in Las Vegas, there are WSOP bracelet events on WSOP.com as well. These frequently attract a lot of interest, creating sizable fields and large prize pools.

The great majority of tournaments on WSOP.com are NLHE, although you’ll see PLO events sprinkled in as well. There is a wide selection of tournament formats, including deep-stacked tourneys, short-handed ones, knock-outs (with bounties), rebuys, turbos and super turbos. Larger tournaments nearly always feature satellites, as do many smaller ones.

Most of WSOP.com’s scheduled tournaments have guaranteed prize pools, which means you can be certain the prize pool will be a minimum amount no matter how many players register.

Looking at WSOP NV and WSOP NJ (for example), regular tournaments include the following:

Daily tournaments such as the $7,000 Daily Rebuy with a $7K guaranteed prize pool.
Tuesday tournaments with $35,000 and $50,000 guaranteed prize pools.
Saturday tournaments with $10,000 and $25,000 guaranteed prize pools.
Sunday tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $7.77 to $500 and guaranteed prize pools from $1,500 to $100,000.

Deposit and withdrawal options

When it comes to banking, WSOP.com offers a number of methods both to fund your account and to withdraw money. After creating an account, click “cashier” and follow the instructions from there for depositing or withdrawing. Depositing methods can vary by state, but usually include these options:

Bank transfer/ACH
Debit or credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover)
PayPal
PayNearMe
Caesars Online Play+ prepaid card
Cash at the casino cage

Depositing at the casino cage means finding a Caesars-affiliated casino in your state that allows you to do so. For example, in New Jersey you can fund your account at Caesars Atlantic City. Meanwhile in Nevada there are several casinos where you can perform your banking, including Caesars Palace, Harrah’s and the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino.

The minimum deposit is $10. The maximum amount varies according to the method you use.

When it comes to withdrawing funds, there are fewer options. Here is what tends to be available:

Bank transfer/ACH
PayPal
Caesars Online Play+ prepaid card
Cash at the casino cage

When withdrawing for the first time, you’ll have to go through a verification process determined by the method you use. That process might take a few days or even up to two weeks such as when verifying a bank account. After that, the wait times are shorter, although sometimes it still takes a few days for processing. There are minimums when withdrawing, too, which depend on the method.

WSOP customer service

The WSOP website has an online help center that is essentially a detailed FAQ section covering most topics and common queries.

WSOP online poker additionally offers email and phone support. Each state has its own email and phone contacts. Response times to emails vary, but the site promises to reply within 72 hours. Phone support typically is available from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m.

Players can also call on WSOP.com’s live chat support via either the desktop client or app. Generally live chat is only available a limited number of hours each day; for example, WSOP NJ offers it from 3-11 p.m.

All in all, WSOP.com offers an inviting and competitive online poker room in each of the states where it operates, making it a great option for players in those locations.