WORST POKER GAME ON THE INTERNET, WOULD NEVER GIVE THEM A DIME...
NOT LIKE REAL POKER...COMPUTER CONTROLED...

Bad bad bad bad bad bad. Did I tell you that it is BAD. Stinks Bites sham joke UNrealistic STINKS STANK STUNK. TERRIBLE THIS IS THE WORSE MY FRIEND!

I've played WPT on and off for a few years, and have never spent any real money on the site. During that time, the cards never seemed "honest" to me - and so I finally searched online for reviews, and I can see that I'm not alone.

I've had way too many "You gotta be frickin' KIDDING me!" moments, both at the regular tables and in the free tournaments. Another very common phrase I find myself mumbling is "Every suit but mine", when I have A-(anything) or K-(anything) suited and the flop drops no help. Not just occassionally, but a LOT.

It's unfortunate that you can't get a good sense of what it's like to play with a fair Dealer on this site; way too many ridiculous bets by what I call Game Agents (some others call them "The Chosen Ones"), who win hand after hand, or bet huge and when when you call them with a good hand but put no money on the table when you have what would be a winner. Put another way - you might win 3-6 "little" hands in a row, and get decimated by absurd pre-flop bets or insane bad beats with huge bets right after.

I played a relatively inexpensive re-buy tournament, and literally lost 8-9 hands in a row to the same player, with several of us at the table going all-in pre-flop (he was beating basically the whole table, not just me). I kept rebuying just to see what would happen, and this confirmed to me what I had already long since suspected - the Dealer wasn't fair.

One of the things I actually like about this site is that there is no "chat" window - in other words, you are there to play cards, not socialize. If you prefer that type of engagement, this is a good place for that experience.

Here is my advice if you want to play at this site:

1. Do *not* give them your credit card. I can't speak about their customer service or any of their membership perks, I just have a general philosophy of not paying real $$$ for pretend money. That isn't a good idea for *any* online gaming site. You never know who is actually on the other end of the transaction.

2. Don't take this game too seriously. It's a site that has a questionable degree of fairness in the cards dealt. Play it just to play, kill some time, have a little fun. And when you get beat by crazy hands and absurd betting, don't let it ruffle your feathers.

3. If you want to actually try to win some chips and get a feel for how the game's Dealer works, play the Freeroll tournaments. They start every hour on the half-hour, and cost nothing to enter. You'll begin to understand the chaotic nature of this site after a few rounds of Freeroll.

4. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD. Definitely worth mentioning twice.

I'm giving the site 2 stars because I like the free-to-play options and the absence of a chat window - and the little emojis (basically the only way to communicate with other players at the table) are fun. The user interface is clean and generally easy to navigate. I would give it a much better rating if the Dealer had an honest deck.

I hope you find this review helpful. Good luck!

I NOTICE YOU CHEAT PLAYERS ON YOUR FREE PLAY SITE, WHO WOULD TRUST YOU PLAYING WITH REAL MONEY ONLINE? I NOTICE THIS HAPPENS ALOT

PocketKings, at seat 2, is in this hand with ******* Tournament chips.
Royt10, at seat 4, is in this hand with 8085 Tournament chips.
SirScot, at seat 5, is in this hand with ******* Tournament chips.
Johnmucha, at seat 6, is in this hand with ******* Tournament chips.
ME, at seat 8, is in this hand with ******* Tournament chips.
SirScot is dealt: **
Johnmucha is dealt: **

LWM1153 is dealt: **
PocketKings is dealt: **
Royt10 is dealt: **
SirScot is dealt: **
Johnmucha is dealt: **

LWM1153 is dealt: **
PocketKings is dealt: **
Royt10 is dealt: **
Dealt to LWM1153 [ ****]
Dealt to PocketKings [ ****]
Dealt to royt10 [ ****]
Dealt to SirScot [ ****]
Dealt to johnmucha [ ****]
Dealt to ME [ Qs Qd]
ME raises [7200 Tournament chips]
LWM1153 folds [7200 Tournament chips]
PocketKings folds [7200 Tournament chips]
Royt10 folds [7200 Tournament chips]
SirScot re-raises [******* Tournament chips]
Johnmucha folds [9600 Tournament chips]
ME calls [4800 Tournament chips]
Round 1 is over.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c] board :[ 8c]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah] board :[ 8c Ah]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc] board :[ 8c Ah Qc]
SirScot checks
ME checks
Round 2 is over.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th] board :[ 8c Ah Qc Th]
SirScot bets for 4800 Tournament chips
ME calls all-in [4388 Tournament chips]
SirScot is returned 412 Tournament chips (uncalled).
Tournament all-in showdown -- players show:
SirScot shows [ Kh Ks]
ME shows [ Qs Qd]
Round 3 is over.
** Dealing River ** [ Jc] board :[ 8c Ah Qc Th Jc]
(no action in this round)
Round 4 is over.
SirScot shows [ Kh Ks] straight, ace high
ME shows [ Qs Qd] three queens, ace/jack kickers
SirScot wins main pot ******* Tournament chips with straight, ace high.

LOST to a 2 outer went out 17th after outlasting 340+ WASTE OF TIME

Russ Hamilton has been seen in public and it is possible that he is now running the WPT site with a super user account again... lol.

Always remember... it is not the best player that wins a tournament... it is the last player who wins.

All kidding aside PlayWPT is a complete joke.

I just play it for fun with my morning coffee and expect nothing for the effort except to eventually lose all my chips and then never visit it again.

Only a complete moron or fervent Trump supporter (same thing) would put any real money into it.

I wrote an RNG using MicroSoft basic in 1985 so I know how they work.

I won't put another dime in any online site.

They are all as crooked as a dog's hind leg.

Their RNG is as suspect as any and the players are the worst.

They play every single hand and call every single bet with crap and win on fifth street too often for it to be legit.

Ran my initial free 25k up over 2 million in a couple of weeks playing good solid poker.

Then I am up or down a million on any given day and sometimes lose every single hand to some idiot on the river.

Call with nothing and go 4 to the flush or runner runner perfect with nothing on the flop and then bingo bango bongo I lose being a huge fav pre flop... and it happens dozens of times and sometimes ten or twenty times in a row... lose to a moron with nothing over and over and over...

From the beginning it was hard work avoiding the sukouts and it is nearly impossible to bluff cause no one lays down anything.

I saw a guy call an all in on the river with ten 5 to beat 9/6 and a very wet board and neither of them had even a touch

There is something really fishy about this site... and they rake an astronomical amount from pots just to deplete stacks and force the newbie idiots that think it is for real.

A complete friggin joke and all involved should be properly charged... properly convicted and properly hung... Mike and Vince and Tony and that Aussie whore included...

You've seen their promos for this website during their tournament broadcasts over Fox Sports and AT&T SportsNet...". Come play for free and we'll make you a better hold-em player"..., or... "our top chip winners win an all-expense trip to play on TV at a real casino". Pure marketing BS. Pure con. Pure theft. Read on.

This site is "free" for only a hand or two to get you started on their con game, and they will let you win some hands over other players to make you think you're a good player, But really, as you'll soon see, you are just being manipulated into false thinking by WPT Enterprises.

And those "top players" didn't come from the same web site we played on, They were either hand-selected to be exempt from being TARGETed by WPT scammers, or they bought one helluva lot of chips to "buy" the trip... and then they appear on their contrived "leader board" and get used for propaganda on their tournament TV shows.

Disgusted players like me leave their joke of a poker website so they are constantly "recruiting" new, totally naive suckers during their tournament broadcasts.

The only thing you'll get better at from this website is how to spot a scammer setting you up for a big loss. But you can't spot them all the time because of how WPT scammers hide cards in the pocket cards (pre-flop cards) of the other players. But at least you won't lose as much as quickly as you would without knowing the things I tell you about in this review.

It took me awhile to figure out what is really going on at WPT Enterprise's website and all that they do to make sure you start losing so you have to "buy more chips" if you want to continue to play, and thereby put more money into WPT pockets.

Can you imagine selling a stranger 10 apples for $5 and then repeatedly sneaking around behind their back and stealing back a few apples at a time until you had stolen back ALL (emphasis added) 10 of those apples so that you can re-sell them to someone else? Well that's exactly what WPT Enterprises does with its PlayWPT.com website.

They sell you chips, then use devious means to STEAL them ALL back. They are thieves. They are con artists and they could never get away with what they do in a state-regulated casino environment. But the Internet is mostly unregulated... and WPT Enterprises knows it.

Let me tell you what I learned from personal experience about what they do and how they do it... and this may not be all that they do on PlayWPT.com.

They track the amount of your winnings and then decide at some point that it's time for you to start losing and paying them back. If it's time, they TARGET you using your log on ID. They also track how often you bet, or don't bet, after your pre-flop cards are dealt and the way they deal with this issue is really underhanded, as I'll tell you.

So when you become a TARGET and log on, a WPT scammer takes either a behind-the-scenes seat, or real seat, at your table and manipulates the cards (using scripts) so that others at your table beat you... but only after tempting you with a good hand which you will bet heavily on... and usually beat you on the 5th lay-down card, or at an "all in". And this will happen again and again at not only the table you are at, but also at any other table you switch to or sign on to for as long as you are a TARGET.

Ever see white flashes during play right under the imojis? Those are WPT scammers in action stacking the (ever changing) winning cards during the course of playing out a hand... having to shift winning cards to players who haven't folded yet so they can beat any TARGETs who remain in the hand.

When you are a TARGET they help you win a few hands, sometimes several hands in a row, or even several sessions in a row, just to build your confidence up to keep you betting and playing; but soon you'll start losing more than ever. And WPT will continue this win-lose this cycle until they've STOLEN back ALL of your chips, in the hope that you will then buy more chips.

WPT knows that "bad beats" are "bad" because a player bets heavily on what is NORMALLY a winning hand only to be surprised by a card(s) that would rarely turn up in normal poker. WPT loooves "all ins" and "bad beats" because they really drive up the number of chips up for (their) grabs. And WPT knows how to hide surprise cards that cause bad beats... with pocket pairs, pocket suited cards, PLANTED last lay-down cards, and PLANTED all-in cards.

WPT uses some really underhanded tactics to DRIVE UP THE BETTING among table players and these tactics manifest themselves against you as a TARGET in several ways. Ways that are certainly not mentioned in their Terms Of Use policy.

The frequency. Combination and timing of these occurrences eliminates the notion that they are derived from randomly-generated cards.

These occurrences are carefully crafted as to their content and their timing by WPT scammers to DRIVE UP THE BETTING, and they are as follows:

(!) They will give you a pocket pair, and give a higher pocket pair to another player so both of you bet; and

(2) they will give you cards for a nice 2 pair, 3-of-a-kind, a straight, a flush or a full house and also give cards for a higher hand to another player, many times using some of the same cards for both hands to make the scam harder to spot; and

(3) they will give you, another player and the flop a few of the same cards so both of you think you have a hot hand, and either nobody wins; or the TARGET loses by one card; and

(4) they will completely change a hand with the last (5th) lay-down card, costing you, the TARGET, a lot in prior betting; and

(5) if you are winning too much for them, they will use their scammers to run scripts that interrupt and delay your play and cause you to be folded because that delay runs out their play clock; and

(6) they will inexplicably "remove (you) from play due to inactivity" if you are on an extended win streak, or if you are not betting often enough to suit them after getting your pre-flop cards; even if they have given you lousy cards you don't want to bet with; and

(7) they will suddenly, after a hand is over, move you to a new the table and leave you sitting there alone (happened to me 3 times!) if they think you are winning too much; and

(8) they will fill in (PLANT) an all-in initiator's hand in winning ways you have to see to believe to make sure he or she wins over callers who are TARGETs; and if the all-in initiator is a TARGET, they will fill in another player's hand to ensure the TARGET loses; and

(9) they use their running-circle play clock to deliberately limit time for you to analyze the board and spot a scammer set-up, and then hopefully rush you into making a mistake in betting; and

(10) they will make it difficult for you to access the game of your choice if they think your total stack means (to them) that you should be playing another type of game for higher (you lose) stakes.

For the loser, a bad beat is a sales opportunity for WPT to sell more chips to the loser(s), so they make sure that bad beats are a very REGULAR occurrence, and they man their site 24/7 with trained scammers just waiting to set up bad beats for their TARGETs who log on.

And those players who win a bundle from you with a bad beat will soon become a TARGET themselves. At Play WPT, the more chips you win the bigger that bulls-eye (TARGET) on your back becomes.

A very carefully contrived con for their profit. You're not really playing against other players, but WPT wants you to think you are with their contrived leader board, their little sets of emojis, avatars and gifts you can give to other players... and they charge you for these!

You're really just a pawn for WPT Enterprises to use to take chips from other players.,, until it's your turn to have WPT help other players take chips from you... all in the hope that the losers will buy more chips from WPT.

So... on this website, unless you've received some special exemption from WPT Enterprises so they can use you later for propaganda, you are either being used by WPT to stick it to others, or others are being used by WPT to stick it to you. You call this "entertainment"?

Well if you do, then you have no hope of EVER coming out ahead, as you might have in a regulated casino, so just keep on paying, playing, losing and paying... forever. But if you don't think it is, then agree that WPT is guilty of Theft By Deception and should be prosecuted by the FBI's Internet Crime Division.

File a complaint with the FBI on their internet crime website at www.ic3.gov. And complain to the programming people at the networks who carry their tournament shows, and refer them to THIS website and its viewer comments.