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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 kennethh748
Canada
1 review
19 helpful votes
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July 1st, 2020

If you lose internet connection due to power loss or temporary internet drop, you lose all your money that you are playing. There is absolutely no way to get it back. Don't use this site... or at least, do not buy any coins to play. A complete rip-off. Secondarily, they use a very high currency rate... i. e. 1.44 for Canadian dollars to U.S. when it should be 1.25. Be very careful with this WPT site.

Thumbnail of user johnc2272
South Carolina
1 review
7 helpful votes
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June 17th, 2019

Software sucks, I get booted in the middle of betting. Their reviews speak for themselves. Pace of play is geared to exhausting chips as quickly as possible. I enjoy playing, but not getting screwed in the middle of a betting hand. The ads suck also. If you click on one you are sent to oblivion.

Thumbnail of user marke305
New York
1 review
6 helpful votes
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September 9th, 2018

I'm on there right now and I can't say that it's rigged by the WPT crew or whomever is running the show over there. There's certainly no way to prove that claim. The one thing for sure is the quality of players are not very good. In most "real" poker settings you don't get so many callers and loose aggressive players. So the bottom line is with so many hands in the mix on most hands a solid hand looses it's value. You often get beat by trash. It's the nature of this beast. I'm still playing on the site until my membership is up. As you may know they start you with 500 chips which I was able to build up over a few months. I'll start using my 90,000 tourney points to try to get a seat in one of the WPT events but it's a huge long shot. It is what is. For me it's some entertainment until they make online poker legal again in my state.

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Texas
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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November 8th, 2023

The results of the hands are based More on Race, than the cards, about 10 to 1. Top pair, 2 pairs, 3 of a kind, straight, flush, full house will Win 9 out of 10 for 1 race, and 1 out of 10 for the other races. Statistically Impossible Results are the norm for some players, and a Bad Beats for others, occuring Occasionally for 1 group, and Constantly for another group. So Constant and Consistent, that it's Reliable. 9 out of 10
No matter what cards they have, or what cards they are up against!

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Thumbnail of user kenp611
Florida
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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June 21st, 2023

New players constantly win with crap hands.
They lure them in to make them believe winning is easy.
Buy chips, and you win.
Keep playing those crap hands and pay again.
Play only with the chips you have won; never pay.
If you enjoy playing and getting beat by 24 against AA or 67 against KK, go for it.

Thumbnail of user spankyl
Arizona
1 review
7 helpful votes
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May 14th, 2020

If you win, funky stuff starts happening. They start taking your chips without giving you the ability to play?

I dont understand how my "timer" to play a hand runs out before I even get to see my cards? Seriously?

Thumbnail of user connedb
Arizona
1 review
21 helpful votes
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March 21st, 2020

I've tested this with multiple accounts. At first a new account has absurdly good luck and then as you get some chips absurdly bad beats ensue time after time to drain your chips and then induce you to pay more money to get more chips. It's obviously built into the programming model. Stay away.

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Indiana
1 review
25 helpful votes
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April 13th, 2020

This site has the worst card algorithm in the poker business, More trips flops and flush hits than any online site out there. The odds of hits on low end draws and high risk hits far outweighs the averages. It is a site I would never play real money and the free roll site is horrible. Not a very good site to play!

Thumbnail of user fredg102
Oklahoma
2 reviews
188 helpful votes
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August 4th, 2019

Like all sites that sell chip, coin or gold this site is totally rigged to take your coins, chips or gold! You can not win! River suckout are just unreal and anything you fold before the flop would have won just to keep you hoping! Don't waste your time!

Thumbnail of user anthonyf1067
Japan
1 review
5 helpful votes
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June 13th, 2022

Terrible site, i cant even fathom the level of ridiculousness with these cards. These cards are not organic TRUST ME. The likelihood that this many bad beats occur is astounding. The system absolutely baits! The amount of times where unlikely stuff occurs is incredible. Were talking 5% or less chances over and over and over and over so i absolutely will never touch this site ever again. I really hope some people see this and go to a more credible place because this site is absolute larsony.

Thumbnail of user cbc16
Georgia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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December 16th, 2023

WPT controls the hand and seal is not random. They site does accurately rate the hand. For example: a hand with clearly three duces is noted as a pair of two. A hand with a five card flush is noted as a king high. Both hands lose to a lesser hand. Very frequent statistically improbable and strategically placed river to win a hand. I don't understand why it is allowed to continue. It does a disservice to those that are learning the game of poker.

Thumbnail of user jerryc764
Nebraska
1 review
3 helpful votes
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July 3rd, 2022

They do NOT consolidate tables, there may be 800 players left in a tournament but you may have only 7 players at your table 30 minutes to an hour. Getting beat by runner runner quads in one nite, and now cutting back on Diamond Player tournaments. It folks is a Fxxking Joke and they have screwed me for the last time

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Thumbnail of user junek87
New York
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4 helpful votes
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July 29th, 2021

After entering tournaments, 50% of the time I can't get in! Sometimes it takes 20 minutes to get back in! It seems every time I have a good hand, it folds me, make a bet, it folds me, game freezes, it folds me, raise, it folds me! I love the games, but it's getting ridiculous! I've had numerous winning hands, it folds me! I'm paying for these coins, and they're just stealing from me! Besides quitting, what can an old lady do?

Thumbnail of user chrisg1344
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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May 18th, 2021

WPT is the biggest rip off ever they pay no one out they use there own employees in diamond member games and feed them cards so employees win and they don't have to pay out the professional card players that promote this site for money should be ashamed of themselves feds need to investigate this site

Thumbnail of user nadred
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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January 12th, 2020

I have been playing the non cash site for few years now and I have to agree with many players the site is rigged.
I have been playing poker for a long time cash casino games where there is no way for electronic cheating to happen. I have been logging many of the unusual bad beats and crazy hands over a course of 350 hands and compared the odds with established poker odds and I was surprised how far off the adds were at PlayWPT.
Why would you ask they would do that on a non cash game because you will have to buy chips and those 9.99 multiplied by thousands of players ads up. The game is not related since it is not a cash game.
Bottom line stay away unless you want to play the very low stakes and you can get chips by watching videos for 500 chip per pop, spin the wheel every two hours and play every day and get 5x bonus chips after playing 5 days in a row.
You have to accept that this site chests using very impressive algorithms.

Thumbnail of user lanak21
Alabama
1 review
14 helpful votes
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February 15th, 2020

This website is certainly carton poker. I've never seen so many aces in a deck in my life. The algorithmic process for dealing the cards is very unrealistic and they don't abide by the rules for payouts. Stay away this site is a scam.

Thumbnail of user suckt
Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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May 18th, 2020

Only a complete idiot would play this for any length of time. Obvious cheating going on. Makes sense though, the only way the site makes money is selling fake money chips. Why not cheat the idiots stupid enough to pay to play this garbage,.

Thumbnail of user colink48
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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June 8th, 2020

Started playing PlayWPT when all the casinos closed in March due to the Pandemic where I won more often than I lost. However, on PlayWPT I find myself having to buy more chips every week after getting busted. How do you think PlayWPT is making money? There are no advertisements. The dealer is not taking a rake. PlayWPT is making money selling chips of course. There is no other way. The studies have been done and PlayWPT has failed miserably. Never have I seen so many quads, so many flushes made, so many gut shot striaghts and the list goes on and on. There are computerized players that take everyone's chips when the time is right slowly but surely. PlayWPT is a fraud... do not believe for a second the handful of fake positive reviews here.

Thumbnail of user jayw170
California
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8 helpful votes
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August 24th, 2019

We have won several events that claim you will win money. We followed their guidelines, and emailed with our information over two months ago. We then followed up again a month ago, and we still have not gotten a response even, let alone any money. If you are coming here with the promise of winning money, walk away!
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Thumbnail of user scottk1844
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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March 3rd, 2023

Where do I start, being playing poker for 20 yrs or more. Watched WPT on Tv for years.
Worst site ever constant suck outs if you go all in you win. If you know the game u can not win on this site. Stay Away.

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Thumbnail of user dougo79
Kentucky
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November 3rd, 2023
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I have only played free on WPT but playing against most members in games. They are teaching goin all in on 3-10 off suit, betting the worst hands ever and they are letting members win multiple pots this way. They give the members the cards to win no matter what they go in with. I have witnessed about 30,4 of a kind and about 20 straight flushes in a matter of a year. This is so rare in poker it tells the whole story,m they are a scam.

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October 3rd, 2023
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I feel sorry a bit for those who pay a membership fee of $25 and upwards to play on this site. The ridiculous amount of 4 of a kind, straight flushes hands are a huge red flag. They also set up players to win going in on the worst poker hands that when playing for money in a casino one would never play on. This is teaching these poor saps the absolute wrong poker fundamentals. I have played for free and amassed a large number of chips which means very little but seeing this go on is alarming to me.

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August 27th, 2023
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Anyone who understands poker and plays would faint at the straight flushes, or four of a kind hands. This web site teaches playing the worst cards and win phylosophy which is certainly not true in Texas Holdem. I never paid so I am simply stating facts that they are duping many people out of $25 a month and more, while the site is cheating and teaching the worst possible playing ever. Luckily I never paid one dime played for free but it is really not good practice as the cheat for paying players vs nonpaying to keep the money flowing.

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Thumbnail of user jb369
Colorado
1 review
15 helpful votes
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February 23rd, 2018

Almost every hand is a laydown to draw out the most chips for a river win. 3 of a kind, inside str8s, 4 same suit - all in the laydown. This does not happen in real poker. I expected better from a site associated with real-world poker games. Should have known better. Just like those sites they make fun of on TV. Mike and Vince should be ashamed.

Thumbnail of user davids970
Texas
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14 helpful votes
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February 25th, 2018

Money pit, this is a rigged, no win game created only to take YOUR money. They only let you win a few to keep you coming back, then once you when a little and get ahead they will always take their money back. NOBODY wins at this site. All bull$#*!. If there is one card in the deck that will beat your king high flush, somebody is gonna hit it on the very last card. BULL$#*!

Thumbnail of user mey24
Ohio
1 review
12 helpful votes
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June 22nd, 2020

This is a site that is worse than any in history. Not about algorithms or anything possibly real. Just about huge hands and bad beats on most of the hands. Every flop, turn and river plays to someones hand in the game, creating nothing real about random cards being played. I don't mind getting beat when you don't have a dime invested, but I'm sure the money site is just as stupid and ridiculous and a waste of time. Practice? I don't think so. Find ANYTHING else to do or just take a nap. You'll get much more out of it. #WASTEOFTIME

Thumbnail of user joej208
Canada
1 review
12 helpful votes
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January 10th, 2019

I have played a lot of poker sites over the years. Some leave doubt as to their legitimacy. PlayWPT leave no doubt their legitimacy. Even if it was legitimate most serious poker players would not play it due to the poor graphics and circus atmosphere.

Then add on the numerous grliches iin the software that shuts the system down in the middle of play and where the winning hand does not always get credited for the win.

Total crap! Don't waste your time.

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