A working joke for years on the World Collection of Poker in Las Vegas was that gamers spent extra time ready in line to register for a event than they did really taking part in in it.
That definitely held true for enormous occasions like The Colossus, a smaller $500 buy-in event that has attracted as many as 20,000 entrants in earlier years. A whole lot of gamers waited in lengthy strains, solely to bust from the event inside minutes — after which get again in line once more to re-register.
Logistically, it simply wasn’t probably the most environment friendly method to run a poker sequence or hold clients completely happy.
In 2025, nevertheless, the WSOP unveiled a brand new telephone app that’s revolutionizing the best way poker tournaments function and the way data is delivered to gamers.
And lengthy strains, for probably the most half, are useless and buried within the Nevada desert.
The WSOP+ app rolled out final month and instantly obtained rave critiques from gamers and poker followers alike. Members can register and purchase into WSOP reside occasions instantly from their telephone utilizing the app, eliminating the nightmare of in-person registration.
If gamers are eradicated from a re-entry occasion, they’ll re-enter from their machine earlier than they even rise up from their chair. The app provides them to a digital ready listing and alerts them once they can take their new seat within the event.
Actual-time data can also be a serious new characteristic. As soon as gamers are registered for a event, they’ll see each knowledge level for the occasion, together with the present blind stage, minutes left within the stage, gamers remaining, the names of gamers at their desk and different tables, and stats and outcomes for every participant.
Gamers even have the power to take notes on their opponents instantly within the app. In the event that they run into these opponents later within the event — or in a distinct occasion in the course of the summer time — the notes will nonetheless be saved.
Jack Effel, senior vice chairman of poker operations and the World Collection of Poker, has been thrilled with the app’s success by the primary two weeks of the sequence.
“It turns into really easy (for the gamers),” Effel advised WSOP.com. “You may have cash in your account, you play the occasions that you simply wish to, go on to your desk, sit down and begin taking part in. You don’t should go stand in line. And it’s serving to us handle some actually giant fields in a extra environment friendly method.”
The app is a sport changer, and different poker excursions will seemingly try and mimic these large upgrades within the coming months.
The 56th version of the World Collection of Poker options 100 gold bracelet occasions on the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. The sequence runs by July 16.