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PlayWPT has a rating of 1.3 stars from 156 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about PlayWPT most frequently mention bad beats, real money, and full house problems. PlayWPT ranks 50th among Poker sites.

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Top Positive Review

“How else do you finish a tournament with 1200 people in 5 hours?”

M A.
5/29/23

So I read alot of these reviews. Lots of pissed off people. Here's what I say about it. The run free tournaments evert 10 minutes. They offer a variety of Texas hold-em games from limit to no limit and from standard to omaha hi-low (I'd like to see more of those). But you have to understand that these tournaments have to go fast. So whatever shuffle they use pops out alot of winners! Unlike a tournament at a casino, the shuffling is artifical, it has to be. They run 144 or so tournaments in a 24 hour period. At the casino, a pair almost always wins, not here. So relax and play for entertainment.

Top Critical Review

“Not good teacher”

Bryan C.
7/21/24

Not a good site to learn poker. You will win more times with 7-2 off-suit. Then A-A...WPT Stands for.Who-Plays-That! It's just a scratch off ticket you play everday at your local gas stations's. There here to make money not give it away.

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Thumbnail of user iowadarts72
New York
1 review
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July 21st, 2024

Not a good site to learn poker. You will win more times with 7-2 off-suit. Then A-A...WPT Stands for.Who-Plays-That! It's just a scratch off ticket you play everday at your local gas stations's. There here to make money not give it away.

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Thumbnail of user edotech808
California
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June 23rd, 2024

Its either a bad beat or you're sharing a pot.There's no actual glory playing this site as much as they hype it up. Joe Schmo(You),are just a victim on this site giving away hard earn money you'll never see a return from.The sad honest truth unfortunately.Live poker will always be the way to go.1.24 stars is a good indication this site is $#*!

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Texas
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April 1st, 2024

My comment is for the WPT programming broadcasts. It is not for any other platforms. I'm tired of seeing women playing poker. I'm tired of seeing your ad nauseam commercials, interviews with the No-name bbpoker players. I'm tired of getting background and history of them. Ad nauseam, it drags out the program and fails to give us competition, competition, competition. Everything else is worthless, uninteresting and irrelevant. Also the numerous assistants on the program with low cut neck lines, giant bosoms flaunting their almost porn apparel is irrelevant, uninteresting, and not pertinent to what the program is about.
Thank you.

Thumbnail of user garys2977
Arizona
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September 15th, 2023

Very user unfriendly site there were more user friendly sites over 20 yrs ago. Very little money to win and as with all online sites it's pseudo random because it's a computer program so don't be surprised on runner runners. Nothing like playing at a club

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Thumbnail of user bartn25
Florida
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3 helpful votes
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November 8th, 2022

I play poker locally all the time, I have never went 120 hands with only winning once. I even had pairs of jacks and above, no joy. When they are ready for you to buy more chips, you will not win. I'm an IT dude, these guys are screwing you.

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Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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August 27th, 2019

Why the idiotic play for free poker? Four times there was a 4 of a kind, (1 by me) in less than an hour, plus I lost to 3 straight flushes. Is the idea, if you cheat people enough they will buy free chips? Not even worth playing for free chips!

Thumbnail of user brianm1796
Canada
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December 13th, 2020

Been playing poker for 20 plus years and there is definitely a corrupt algorithm on this site. The hands that come up and virtually impossible. If it happened once in a while... ok. It happens but for example. Three hands in a row I got 7/3. Twice in about twenty minutes I had a hand with "the nuts". No hand could beat me... and someone else at the table had the same hand. There are boys playing that just cant be beat. If your smart enough to pick them out and not go heads up against them... you have a chance. Overall... just outright pathetic cheating.

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New York
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May 29th, 2023

So I read alot of these reviews. Lots of pissed off people. Here's what I say about it. The run free tournaments evert 10 minutes. They offer a variety of Texas hold-em games from limit to no limit and from standard to omaha hi-low (I'd like to see more of those). But you have to understand that these tournaments have to go fast. So whatever shuffle they use pops out alot of winners! Unlike a tournament at a casino, the shuffling is artifical, it has to be. They run 144 or so tournaments in a 24 hour period. At the casino, a pair almost always wins, not here.
So relax and play for entertainment.

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Let people win.

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Thumbnail of user brandonw498
North Carolina
2 reviews
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May 12th, 2021

Dont waste your money. U can use a bank account for payment so just add 1 with no money it. After a few days it bounces like a check so u can still play in the tournaments without paying. I feel sorry for the people who do pay because its rigged algorithm trash. Ace on every other board... trash & no one ever wins with a high card. Someone has a pair no matter what. Its not real poker

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Thumbnail of user davidf913
Georgia
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August 23rd, 2019

They say eligibility to play is based on where you live until you pay the year subscription and then tell you it's based on your IP address. Also, no customer service number and 4 out of the 5 that I have emailed are completely incompetent or intentional criminals.

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Canada
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September 29th, 2020

When you play on this site, brace yourself. You are about to see some unbelievable $#*!. You will see so many four of a kinds your head will be spinning. You flop a straight, you are most likely going to lose to a turn, river, flush or full house. There is no such thing as a good hand. The obvious question, why cheat on a free poker site? With the trillions of dollars floating around, why are there so few players?
Because this site sucks. Nobody stays here for long.

Thumbnail of user jv63
Georgia
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12 helpful votes
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June 9th, 2018

If you're wondering whether this is a legit poker site, it's not. Though it is touted as such on tv, it's as bad of a rigged game as any other. Worse than some because they are going after your money to stay in the game. Why is it so difficult to provide an honest game online? I would have become a member of their other site if this had been as advertised. Glad I tried the "practice" site first. Shows me the other site will be just as rigged as this... along with a monthly payment.

Thumbnail of user nof13
Canada
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August 18th, 2020

In your wildest dreams you have never seen anything like this site. Bad beats happen in poker but this game,,,, it is every second hand. Straights happen very frequently and the person with the worst hand wins 75% of the time.
I guess the idea is try and get people to buy chips.
Somewhere there is an owner (MarkMonitor, Inc.) of this site. Every time someone buys chips, they must laugh their asses off.

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Texas
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December 18th, 2019
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I had over 120 million to blow before leaving and started betting max then folding. People had a lot of fun and so did I so I decided to play 2 tournaments. One free the other fee based. They go all in before the flop winning on the last card with a flush to beat my straight. Same old CRAP.
All I ever wanted was a fair game.

Now I Understand
December 12th, 2019
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I understand why I keep losing to people that always win and go all in instantly even though they don't get the "winning hand" till the last card. Not 5 minutes ago I was playing on the million dollar table. Lost a lot with the last card flush crap.
I have been on this site a long, time.
Spent real money for fake money.
I'm more than disappointed to find out I lost because of cheating. I was convinced I just had bad luck on the draw of the cards. Seems by bad luck was believing it was a fair site.
Still got 100 million to lose then I'll be done with them.
UPDATE: I'm doing well at losing the rest of the gold. Playing a million dollar table.
I'm still being dealt off suit 4's and 5 type crap while everyone else is playing high face cards. Sure does make it difficult to compete.

Thumbnail of user calir
Texas
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17 helpful votes
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April 21st, 2019

This game is rigged for miracle suck outs. One thing you need to do while playing is to determine which of the other players is the "chosen one" for that particular game who gets all the miracle results. Never get into an all-in showdown with that player no matter what cards you are holding. Once you get down to the final 2 with the "chosen one" player, the only way I've found to beat them is to never fall for great looking hands with an all-in bet but go slow and steady. Every once in awhile you realize YOU are the chosen one too... It's clearly not real poker but trying to outwit the "rigging" of the system can be sometimes interesting. NEVER spend money on it..

Thumbnail of user freda112
Illinois
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September 10th, 2017

Wow, talk about a rigged site! I have never had so many bad beats in my life. I believe this is rigged to favor the idiots who actually spend money here. Out of 10 hands where I went all in with the better hand I got beat on 8 of them on the river... calling BS here!

Thumbnail of user terryl419
Massachusetts
2 reviews
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October 27th, 2020

It rewards a bad call every single time no matter how ridiculous the odds are. Constantly beat by opponents with an 8%! 2% chance of winning and once even a less than 2%. Everyone hits the flop. The worse a person plays the more they win. And the absolute worse part is the players "truly believe" they are playing poker, as you can see by some of these reviews. The reason they are legal where other sites are not is because it is a "LOTTERY" no skill needed or of any use. Read the fine print. You will have to beat 500 players to win $20 it's obscene to a real poker player. Even if you pay the $150 for the premium package all you get is 2 extra games daily and one is just a qualifier. It's a joke.

Thumbnail of user thomasb1929
Tennessee
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August 19th, 2020

The computer is set so that if you don't spend real money on their "sales" to get more chips they will start taking yours away.
I have earned over 300 million chips 3 times only to have the computer see to it that I nearly go broke. No way I could change that much that quickly. I have been playing poker for over 50 years.
Site is a set up scam. If you don't spend real money on their "chip sales" you will go broke.

Thumbnail of user vernaj7
Canada
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August 25th, 2018

The betting is terrible at all levels. Constant pre flop raisers who always seem to win with crap. Forcing those who repay for coins to REPAY for coins. Hence it is a scam. Computer players betting, calling, raising with terrible hands and winnings thus making idiots, (I was ONCE) purchase more chips.

Thumbnail of user skipw10
Canada
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June 9th, 2020

Too obvious that most hands are won on the river. My game is if you're betting and all are calling until the river and someone goes in heavy... I know for certain they hit the card they needed on the river, often it fills two or three hands. Crazy winds like 3 Aces 2 Kings you can guarantee that your opponent has four of a kind and got there on the River. I have been playing poker for 60 years and have never seen a Royal Flush and very very rarely four of a kind. I am at 2.4 Million and cannot get further... one bad beat after another, slide down to 2.1 million and work my way back up to 2.4 and again no winds, no matter what. I get either great cards that end in a bad beat or $#*!ty cards that cannot make a hand (3 - 6,2 - 7,2 - 3,4 - 5) usually get eight or tens, $#*! hands with one beauty that often ends in a bad beat. (The more I read this the more it looks like a regular Sat. Night game)

Thumbnail of user alexanderk49
Kentucky
4 reviews
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July 23rd, 2017

The site has a rigged poker game. You have to buy "gold" with real dollars. It targets the weak hands (with little "gold") and makes them loose with highly improbable hands - repeatedly, so that they buy more fictional "gold"with real dollars, to continue playing. Any real poker player will be able to tell within 5 min. That it is rigged so you loose. Stay far away, you have no chance of winning, and the higher level you play at, the more rigged it is. The site should be banned, sued, and return all money to players.

Thumbnail of user franka85
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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October 17th, 2017

Two aces, nothing. Off suit low cards straight and flushes (folded of course). People are exploiting this and laughing. Where is a dialogue ability (fulltilt has one). Horrible. Money making garbage...

Thumbnail of user johns7128
California
1 review
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September 7th, 2020

I like playing poker for fun and playwpt delivers. Their are a lot of people who complain about the site but it is the usual folks that can't win and always thinks every site is fixed hahaha

Thumbnail of user ah221
Ohio
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December 8th, 2018

All I have read here are reviews claiming that PlayWPT is rigged so you have to purchase more "gold" with real money. I have been playing for about a month, have not spent one single real cent, and am up to about 42 million. Are there bad beats and suck outs? Yep. Are there also in live poker? Yep. I will allow that a lot of players take reckless chances because it is not real money, but that fact can be exploited to your benefit. Maybe all of you crying "foul" just need to learn how to play poker.

Thumbnail of user terryc1319
Nevada
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January 6th, 2024

In Aug 2023 I received a check for $75 from WPT for my winning on the site. It was unable to be cashed or deposited due to misprinting of the bar code. I immediately contacted WPT representatives and after over 5 phone calls I have still not received a replacement check and it is now Januarary. I have asked to speak with a supervisor and was told they were unavailable. Not the best customer service. The site is fine but the people who run it don't seem to care.

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