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 match than they did really enjoying in it.
That actually held true for enormous occasions like The Colossus, a smaller $500 buy-in match 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 match inside minutes — after which get again in line once more to re-register.
Logistically, it simply wasn’t essentially the most environment friendly strategy to run a poker sequence or hold prospects joyful.
In 2025, nonetheless, the WSOP unveiled a new phone app that’s revolutionizing the best way poker tournaments function and the way info is delivered to gamers.
And lengthy strains, for essentially the most half, are lifeless and buried within the Nevada desert.
The WSOP+ app rolled out final month and instantly acquired rave opinions from gamers and poker followers alike. Individuals can register and purchase into WSOP stay occasions instantly from their cellphone 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 gadget earlier than they even arise from their chair. The app provides them to a digital ready record and alerts them after they can take their new seat within the match.
Actual-time info can be a significant new function. As soon as gamers are registered for a match, they’ll see each information 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 flexibility to take notes on their opponents instantly within the app. In the event that they run into these opponents later within the match — or in a special occasion throughout the summer time — the notes will nonetheless be saved.
Jack Effel, senior vp of poker operations and the World Collection of Poker, has been thrilled with the app’s success via the primary two weeks of the sequence.
“It turns into really easy (for the gamers),” Effel advised WSOP.com. “You’ve gotten cash in your account, you play the occasions that you simply need to, go on to your desk, sit down and begin enjoying. You don’t need to go stand in line. And it’s serving to us handle some actually massive fields in a extra environment friendly method.”
The app is a game changer, and different poker excursions will seemingly try to 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 via July 16.
