Which States is WSOP Poker Legal In?

WSOP online poker app is available in the following states:

• Michigan
• New Jersey
• Nevada
• Pennsylvania

*WSOP Poker Online operates a shared player pool across MI, NJ, and NV.

WSOP Promo Code

WSOP Poker Bonus Explained

WSOP Poker offers a four-part welcome bonus to new customers who sign up for accounts and make their first deposits:

• Up to $100 Free Play Bonus*: New customers receive $25 to $100 in free play to use immediately on cash games and tournaments after making their first deposit.
• 100% up to $1,000 deposit bonus: All new customers receive a 100% match bonus on their first deposit for up to $1,000 extra.
• $10K WSOP Main Event Seat Drawing: All first-time depositors also entry into a drawing to win a $10,000 seat at the World Series of Poker Main Event.
• Seven Spins on the Winner Spinner Wheel: New WSOP players get one free spin on the bonus wheel each day for seven days. Potential prizes include free tournament tickets, a WSOP Main Event seat, and more.

Players receive all four bonuses immediately after funding their accounts. The amount of instant free play bonus money they receive is based on the size of their first deposit:

• Deposit $10 to $250: Get $25 in free play
• Deposit $251 to $500: Get $50 in free play
• Deposit $501 to $999: Get $75 in free play
• Deposit $1,000 or more: Get $100 in free play

^{*The $100 free play bonus is not available in Nevada. Nevada users still receive the remainder of the WSOP welcome offer.}

Additionally, bettors receive a separate 100% match bonus worth up to $1,000 in bonus funds. The difference between the free play and match bonuses is that the former is instantly usable in WSOP Poker real money games, while the latter is a traditional bonus that players release over time.

For example, someone who signs up for an account with the WSOP Poker promo code BUSA and deposits $100 will receive $25 in free play and may immediately use it for cash games or tournaments. Additionally, that player will receive $100 in bonus funds that become available as they earn Action Player Points (more on clearing the bonus below). In all, that’s $125 in additional value on a $100 deposit.

All new customers can use the WSOP promo code BUSA when signing up to claim this offer.

New users can get started by visiting WSOP.com to sign up for an account and make a real-money deposit of at least $10.

Claim Your Welcome Bonus today at:

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Use the WSOP Online poker promo code BUSA

Clearing the WSOP Online Poker Bonus

After new players claim their welcome offer, WSOP places the deposit match portion of the bonus in a pending bonus account. Customers then release the bonus funds in increments as they earn Action Player Points (APPs) by participating in WSOP real money cash games. Players earn two APPs for every dollar they pay in rake or tournament fees.

Players clear the bonus in $5 increments for every 50 APPs they earn in cash games and tournaments. This works out to a rake-back rate of about 20%, which is generous.

Other WSOP Promotions

WSOP.com does not court new customers exclusively. Players who have already signed up for accounts can take advantage of frequent promotions, including:

• Reload deposit bonuses
• Daily freeroll tournaments
• Player leaderboards with prizes
• Blast tournament races
• Various other promos, like Card Strike, where players earn instant cash prizes if one of their hole cards matches the card on the Card Strike board

In summary, WSOP offers more online poker promotions than competing operators.

WSOP VIP Loyalty Rewards Program

All WSOP Online customers can join Caesars Rewards for free, link their WSOP accounts, and earn points for participating in cash games and tournaments.

Players can redeem their points for prizes like tournament entry tickets and table credit. Additionally, players move up in reward levels as they earn points to unlock additional benefits.

For every 50 points players earn on WSOP Online, they also earn 1 Tier Credit to move up in Caesars Rewards. Players can also convert their WSOP points to Caesars Rewards credits, redeemable at any Caesars Entertainment property for additional perks.

Read more about Caesars Rewards here:

• Caesars Rewards Explained

WSOP Online Poker Download

Players can visit WSOP.com to download the WSOP Online poker client for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices.

WSOP Online rolled out its new and improved Poker 8 platform state by state over several years, but the new client is now available for desktop and mobile players in all states.

The new WSOP Online software is a dramatic upgrade over the old platform by most measures, although it still has room for improvement in some areas.

Some of the software’s highlights include:

• Multi-tabling on the WSOP app (play up to four tables simultaneously)
• Sort and filter features in the tournament and cash game lobbies that make it easy to find the types of games players want
• WSOP Online cash games deal hands faster than other poker sites to keep the games moving at a brisk but tolerable pace

The WSOP client also includes all the basic but must-have features one would expect, like note-taking, four-color decks that make it easier to identify potential flushes, auto rebuys in tournaments, and auto top-ups in cash games.

The one major downgrade since WSOP Online introduced the Poker 8 platform is the loss of the “Players/Flop” percentage in the cash games lobby. That was an excellent metric for identifying loose tables and avoiding tight games.

Other negative points include:

• Sporadic geolocation errors, especially for players located near state borders
• Uncontrollable scroll speed when browsing the cash game or tournament lobby in list view, especially with a laptop trackpad
• Tournament lobby does not specify when an event has a live final table, meaning a player could join a tournament before realizing they may need to travel to compete at the final table in person

Cash Game Lobby

The default cash games lobby condenses available tables into groups based on game type and stakes. It’s supposed to be convenient but lacks critical details and prevents players from selecting specific tables to join.

Instead, the default lobby only shows the number of players seated at different stakes and automatically assigns seats to new players. For example, a player might see that there are 75 people currently seated at $1/$2 NL Hold’Em tables but will have no control over whether they join a table that’s nearly full or find themselves playing heads-up against a single opponent.

However, players can hit the list view icon near the top of the cash games lobby to see a complete list of individual tables and choose the one they wish to join. The list view shows each table’s number of seated players, recent average pot size, and current hands per hour.

This view is the best because it facilitates choosing tables with the most action.

Tournament Lobby

WSOP Online displays tournaments in the list format only, so it’s useful and informative as-is. Comprehensive filtering options aid players in finding the exact types of tournaments they want based on buy-in, blind speed, category (satellites, online bracelet events, etc.), and type (regular, mystery bounties, progressive knockouts, etc.).

Players can select any tournament from the list and then hit “open lobby” for a detailed view including the following information:

• Tournament start date and time
• Payout structure
• Blind intervals and starting chips
• Poker variant (Hold’Em, Omaha, etc.)
• Late registration period in minutes
• Tournament type (mystery bounty, progressive knockout, etc.)
• Whether rebuys and add-ons are available
• Minimum, maximum, and current number of entrants
• Max number of players per table
• Whether final table deal-making is allowed
• A tab to view and enter satellites for this tournament

WSOP Online Screenshots

WSOP Online Cash Games

WSOP Online’s expanding multi-state poker network has benefited its cash games tremendously due to increased traffic.

This review will discuss traffic in more detail later, but the short of it is that cash game players can find full tables at limits up to $5/$10 NL during normal business hours and up to $25/$50 NL or higher on evenings and weekends.

However, some players will be disappointed to find that WSOP Online no longer spreads Stud and Stud Hi/Lo games, presumably to funnel players into its Texas Hold’Em and Omaha games.

Now, WSOP Online offers three cash game variants exclusively:

• No-Limit Texas Hold’Em: 1c/2c ($2 buyin) to $100/$200 ($20,000 buyin)
• Pot-Limit Omaha: 1c/2c to $100/$200
• Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo: 25c/50c to $5/$10

WSOP Online offers an identical range of stakes for Texas Hold’Em and Omaha ring games, while its Omaha Hi/Lo games cap out at $5/$10 PL with fewer incremental options below.

WSOP Online Tournaments

Unsurprisingly, the official poker site of the World Series of Poker invests heavily in its tournament offerings.

WSOP Online holds multiple championship series and circuit events each year, regular satellites awarding entries to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, and daily guaranteed prize pool events.

WSOP Online’s tournament scene was expanding even before it added Michigan to the New Jersey-Nevada player pool. Since then, it has taken another significant step forward with larger prize pools, more special events, and new game types.

The biggest weekly tournament is still the Sunday Major with a $100,000 guarantee, but WSOP now hosts over $340,000 in guaranteed tournaments alone every Sunday.

WSOP Online’s annual headline event, the Gold Bracelet series, spans thirty tournaments awarding official World Series of Poker bracelets and featuring guaranteed prize pools of up to $1,000,000.

The latest online bracelet series included five hybrid tournaments, in which play began online and concluded with final tables played in person at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

In addition, WSOP Poker hosts an annual online championship series every Fall and Summer. The series spans 170+ tournaments at buyins ranging from $10 to $1,000 and guarantees more than $5 million in prize pools.

Dozens of tournaments run daily in a variety of formats, including:

• Heads-up and six-seat sit-n-go tourneys
• Standard freezeout MTTs
• Satellites to online and live events
• Daily freerolls
• Rebuys and add-ons
• Deep stack events
• Turbos and super turbos
• Shorthanded tournaments
• All-in satellites
• Bounties and mystery bounties
• Knockouts and progressive knockouts
• Multi-flight reentry tournaments

The one glaring flaw is that WSOP Online only holds tournaments in the Texas Hold’Em and Omaha formats. WSOP Online does not offer Stud, Razz, mixed-game, or any other ruleset outside of Hold’Em and Omaha.

WSOP BLAST Tournaments

WSOP Online hosts four-person super-turbo Blast SNGs featuring random prize pools ranging from 2x to 10,000x the buyin.

Players can enter Blasts at buyins ranging from $0.30 to $50 with maximum potential prize pools of $3,000 to $500,000. Once four players have bought in, WSOP Online reveals the prize pool and launches the tournament.

Blast tournaments don’t require much time investment because they consist of three to six rounds of two-minute blinds then switch to all-in mode. There are several potential payout structures, depending on the prize pool multiplier:

• 2x: Winner-take-all
• 5x: 1^st (70%) and 2^nd (30%)
• 10x to 100x: 1^st (60%), 2^nd (25%), and 3^rd (15%)
• 1,000x and above: 1^st (60%), 2^nd (20%), 3^rd (10%), and 4^th (10%)

Although the multiplier is selected at random, the odds of drawing any particular multiplier heavily skew toward the lower end (2x and 3x the buyin). High-end multipliers like 100x and 1,000x the prize pool are exceedingly rare.

The odds of drawing each multiplier vary based on the tournament entry fee but are roughly similar across the board. For example, here are the odds of each prize pool multiplier in a $30 Blast SNG:

WSOP Poker Traffic

WSOP Online traffic is a two-part discussion because Michigan, New Jersey, and Nevada share a single player pool, while Pennsylvania will remain ring-fenced until it fully joins MSIGA.

First, here’s the traffic situation at WSOP Michigan, New Jersey, and Nevada:

Ring game traffic is now consistent up to the higher-stakes games, even during off-peak hours.

Now, players can find active ring game tables at nearly all stakes, even during non-peak hours. During peak evening hours, players will find action at $25/$50 NL and sometimes all the way up to $100/$200 NL.

For instance, here’s a snapshot of WSOP’s ring game traffic on a recent weekday around 3 PM ET, one of the slowest times for online poker in the USA:

• Texas Hold’Em Cash Games: Active tables at stakes up to $25/$50 NL and full six-seat tables up to $5/$10 NL
• Omaha Cash Games: Full six-seat tables up to $5/$10 PL
• Omaha Hi/Lo Cash Games: Full six-seat tables up to $2/$5 PL

Traffic is considerably lower for Omaha Hi/Lo than Texas Hold’Em and Omaha, but there’s still action during peak hours.

On a related note, we have noticed that Omaha Hi/Lo often has more traffic at the highest stakes than the lowest stakes, so these are likely some unusually tough games. Omaha Hi/Lo tends to appeal more to experienced players anyway, and this observation reflects that.

And here’s a brief overview of the traffic situation at WSOP Pennsylvania:

Only Pennsylvania remains ring-fenced, but it’s just a matter of time before Pennsylvania joins the WSOP multi-state network.

In the meantime, Pennsylvania has a large enough population on its own to support a pared-down version of the WSOP Online Bracelet series, daily guaranteed MTTs, $100,000 in guaranteed tournaments on Sundays, and decent cash game traffic.

Cash game players won’t struggle to find action at stakes up to about $2/$5, regardless of the time or day. However, it usually requires waiting until evenings and weekends to encounter more than a few stragglers at $5/$10 NL and above.

WSOP Online offers all the same types of tournaments in Pennsylvania as elsewhere but scaled back in line with the smaller traffic numbers.

For example, WSOP Pennsylvania hosts seven Gold Bracelet events in Pennsylvania every June instead of the thirty bracelet events it holds in the other states.

Similarly, WSOP Online hosts $100,000 in guaranteed tournaments in Pennsylvania every Sunday versus $340,000 guaranteed in its other states.

WSOP Deposit Options

WSOP Online accepts deposits and processes withdrawals via the following poker deposit methods:

Players may fund their accounts in person and withdraw cash at the cashier’s cage at the following casinos. Note that players must initiate cash withdrawals online and then visit the casino with a valid photo ID.

• Caesars Atlantic City (NJ)
• Harrah’s Philadelphia (PA)
• Caesars Palace Las Vegas
• Harrah’s Las Vegas
• Paris Las Vegas
• Planet Hollywood Las Vegas

Withdrawing from WSOP Online is fast for most customers. However, there are semi-regular player reports that the first withdrawal can be slow and frustrating due to identity verification document requests that WSOP Online fails to process quickly.

WSOP Online Responsible Gambling

WSOP Online Poker promotes responsible gambling by providing information, assistance, and tools for all customers.

For anyone with questions or concerns about problem gambling, WSOP Online offers:

• Resources and helplines for problem gambling resources on the WSOP website and poker clients
• Individual problem gambling assistance via customer support

Players may also visit the Responsible Gambling tab inside their account settings to set custom limits on their play:

• Daily, weekly, and monthly deposit limits
• Daily or weekly limits on the amount spent on tournament entries
• Daily or weekly limits on cash game buyins
• Daily or weekly net loss limits
• Daily limits on the amount of time spent logged in
• “Cooling off” periods of up to five months

WSOP Online Acquired by GGPoker

WSOP Online is the product of a joint effort between Caesars Entertainment and NSUS Group.

Caesars Entertainment is the longtime host of the World Series of Poker, and its properties host WSOP circuit events around the world every year. NSUS Group is the parent company of GGPoker, the world’s largest international poker site, and acquired the WSOP brand from Caesars Entertainment for $500 million in mid-2024.

The deal included transferring ownership of WSOP Online to NSUS Group, which plans to “leverage GGPoker’s cutting-edge technology and industry expertise to create an exciting future for WSOP, ensuring players have an increasingly improved, safe, and seamless poker experience.”

Caesars Entertainment will continue to host the World Series of Poker until at least 2044. It will also continue operating WSOP Online in Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, but it has agreed not to offer online poker anywhere else “for a specified period of time and subject to certain exceptions.”

The current WSOP Online software platform is capable and competitive, but players can expect to see significant improvements and expanded tournament offerings as GGPoker takes the reigns. Online poker always represented a tiny fraction of Caesars Entertainment’s annual revenue, so WSOP Online never received the full attention of its former owners.

In contrast, online poker is GGPoker’s sole business, and NSUS Group will be highly motivated to grow the brand after spending half a billion dollars on the intellectual rights alone. Plus, GGPoker has a track record of excellence, considering it knocked PokerStars out of the number one spot to become the world’s largest poker site.

WSOP.com State-Specific Operations

WSOP Poker FAQ

Expert Opinion: Is WSOP Poker Legit?

WSOP Poker is a legitimate poker site for several reasons. Most importantly, WSOP Online Poker holds licenses in every state in which it operates. In addition, WSOP Poker is the official platform of the most prominent tournament series in the world, the World Series of Poker.

As a licensed operator staffed by a highly experienced team, WSOP Poker is an intelligent choice for players. It’s not a perfect poker site and could use more traffic, but it is safe, fair, and well-regarded.