Short Stacks: WSOP Releases New App, Announces Series in Cyprus for First Time, Bans Phones

It’s a World Sequence of Poker heavy quick stacks, that includes a brand new WSOP app, rule adjustments to stop teaching and dishonest, and an introduced journey to Cyprus. Sure, that’s the quick stacks CardsChat picked up in its newest orbit of poker information.

The WSOP is coming to Benefit Royal Diamond Resort and Spa in North Cyprus this October for a Circuit sequence. Will probably be the primary time the WSOP will head to the Mediterranean Island.

Working from Oct. 9 to 21, the sequence will probably be highlighted by a $5,300 Essential Occasion that may carry a $5 million assured prize pool

“This marks the primary time {that a} WSOP occasion has been held at Benefit and the crew are very excited on the prospect of internet hosting such a prestigious sequence which is able to embody two weekends,” mentioned Songul Bekem, President of Benefit Poker. “We have now the largest ballrooms outdoors of the USA which can be able to internet hosting a sequence of such magnitude. Hold your eye out for early fowl resort affords which will probably be out there when the core schedule is launched.”

As Bekem talked about, the total schedule has not been launched, however sure occasions have been promised, together with a Mini Essential, 4 PLO occasions, a Thriller Bounty and Excessive Curler and Tremendous Excessive Curler tournaments.

On-line satellites for the Essential Occasion will probably be held on GGPoker, the web poker large who now personal the WSOP model.

WSOP+ App Launched

Say goodbye to Bravo, and whats up to WSOP+.

The WSOP launched an app that hopefully will assist put an finish to the lengthy registration traces on the Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas casinos this summer season. Known as WSOP+, the app will enable gamers to register for this summer season’s occasions immediately by way of their telephones or tablets.

That’s not the one factor the app does. Consider it as a full event interface, giving gamers data that’s historically out there on displays all through the rooms, together with a blind degree clock, common chip stacks, variety of participant’s left, the biggest stack, the typical stack, the smallest stack, and even stack sizes of particular person consumer.

It additionally permits customers to make feedback on every tourney, and fairly just a few have used that function to complain of poor customer support and lack of fee choices. If the WSOP get’s all of the kinks labored out by the point the gamers contact down in Las Vegas later this month, it is going to be a game-changer.

WSOP bans telephones, teaching

The WSOP has tweaked its guidelines regarding the usage of telephones and digital units on the rail for this 12 months’s sequence. This 12 months, gamers won’t be able to make use of their telephones in any respect through the ultimate three tables of any event. It was put in place in time for the WSOP Paradise sequence in December.

From the rule guide: “As soon as Individuals have reached the ultimate three tables in any Match, all authorised digital units have to be eliminated. An announcement will probably be made to Individuals as soon as they’ve reached the ultimate three tables to take away all such digital units.”

Gamers might entry their units once more throughout breaks or after being eradicated. Throughout streamed occasions, the WSOP “reserves the correct to take away all Individuals’ digital units. Individuals will solely be allowed to have their units again throughout breaks or after elimination.”

One other rule change bans teaching from throughout the event room. The rule reads: “No teaching from wherever throughout the event room will probably be allowed; this contains viewing of the event stream and utilization of any digital help.”