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House Rules
WSOP.com works hard to uphold the integrity of the game. The following comprises the house rules for playing on WSOP.com:
Minors Prohibited Policy
Multi-hand Policy
Posting Policy
Missed Blind Bets Policy
Tie Hands Policy (for all Poker variations except Hi-Lo)
Tie Hands Policy (for Hi-Lo Poker variations only)
Split Pot Policy
Play Time Limit Policy
All-in Policy (connection issue)
All-in Policy
Rake Policy
Non-Collusion Policy
Fair Play Policy
Disconnection Policy
Table Etiquette
Prize Award Policy
Rat Holing Policy
Please ensure that you have not registered for more than four tournaments at any given time.
Posting is designed to prevent players from moving seats/tables to avoid paying the blinds, and to avoid allowing players to sit in a different seat consistently in order to gain a positional advantage.
Similar to the above reasoning of missing blinds, a player sitting out in a cash game will have to post a round’s worth of missed blinds.
If a player misses both the blinds, he will have to post the blinds as a live bet and a dead bet. The live bet will be considered a blind bet in the first hand for which he’s re-seated. This is essentially, a forced call of the big blind for the round in question. He will also be required to post a dead bet amount, equivalent to the amount of the small blind. This amount will go into the pot directly.
If the hands are furthermore equivalent, for example, a pair of Aces vs. a pair of Aces, the Kicker, or the highest value card uncommon to the tied hands, determines the hand’s winner.
In the event that two or more winning hands at showdown are absolutely equal, (i.e. same ranking, kicker(s) etc.) the Pot will be split evenly between those hands. (See Split Pot Policy Below)
Players will have 2 all-ins per 24 hour period. We suggest that players refrain from playing if they have a persisting connection issue until such time as it is resolved.
Players having had their all-in feature utilized will have to contact customer support in order to have the feature reset.
If you are all-in, you may win the main pot, but a side pot will be created for the players that continue to play in the hand after you’re no longer to call further bets. You could have a number of side pots in a single poker hand, dependent entirely on the relative chip stacks of the players. If there are staggered chip stack amounts and a number of players enter the same hand, side pots will result each time a player is all-in and betting action continues after that player is no longer with any chips.
The pot(s) will be awarded to the player with the highest hand, but only up to the amount (indicated by the side pots he is eligible to win) he was contributing to it. For example, let’s say there are three players, A, B, and C.
Player A had $100 to start the hand
Player B had $120 to start the hand
Player C had $200 to start the hand
Player A makes an all-in bet for $100. Player B moves all-in as well. Player C calls. A $300 pot consisting of $100 from each will be formed as the main pot, and a side pot of $40 ($20 from player B and $20 from player C) will also be formed. They’re all eligible to win the main pot, and that will of course go to the player with the best hand. But, the side pot is only being contested by players B and C, so even if player A has the best overall hand, the $40 side pot will go to the best hand between players B and C. If player B or C has the outright best hand, then that player would take BOTH the main pot, and the side pot.
Cash games will roll back to the previous hand as if the present hand that was in progress (but not finished) never happened to begin with.
Tournaments that are in progress during a connection issue will be cancelled and the prize pool will be divided equally amongst all the players that are still in the tournament. Players who busted from the tournament prior to the connectivity issue remain unaffected and there will be no resolution affecting them.
WSOP.com’s system will not permit you to sit down at a table with less chips than you left with within a reasonable amount of time. If you sit down again, you will have to bring back the amount you left with or greater, so long as the greater is not more than the table’s upper limit.
Enjoy the tables and Good Luck!
Minors Prohibited Policy
Multi-hand Policy
Posting Policy
Missed Blind Bets Policy
Tie Hands Policy (for all Poker variations except Hi-Lo)
Tie Hands Policy (for Hi-Lo Poker variations only)
Split Pot Policy
Play Time Limit Policy
All-in Policy (connection issue)
All-in Policy
Rake Policy
Non-Collusion Policy
Fair Play Policy
Disconnection Policy
Table Etiquette
Prize Award Policy
Rat Holing Policy
Minors Prohibited Policy
Minors Prohibited Policy Only players of the legal age are invited to play in the cardroom. Players may be asked to provide additional proof of age to ensure that minors are kept from participating in the games.Multi-hand Policy
To keep play fluid, there is a limit on the number of games and tournaments that one can play. Players are permitted to play in up to four tournaments and/or six cash games at once. Players engaged in more than the upper limit of tournaments will have their blinds posted in the over-limit tournaments but will not be able to engage the game.Please ensure that you have not registered for more than four tournaments at any given time.
Posting Policy
A player joining a WSOP.com Poker table (with the exception of Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better) is required to post an amount equal to the table's Lower Limit Stake. A player can choose to ‘sit out’ until the big blind comes around to them rather than post upon being seated.Posting is designed to prevent players from moving seats/tables to avoid paying the blinds, and to avoid allowing players to sit in a different seat consistently in order to gain a positional advantage.
Missed Blind Bets Policy
A player can opt to sit out from a table for a maximum of three orbits of the button.Similar to the above reasoning of missing blinds, a player sitting out in a cash game will have to post a round’s worth of missed blinds.
If a player misses both the blinds, he will have to post the blinds as a live bet and a dead bet. The live bet will be considered a blind bet in the first hand for which he’s re-seated. This is essentially, a forced call of the big blind for the round in question. He will also be required to post a dead bet amount, equivalent to the amount of the small blind. This amount will go into the pot directly.
Tie Hands Policy (for all Poker variations except Hi-Lo)
Whenever the live hands of two or more players during Showdown are of equivalent ranking (by combination), the winner is determined by the High Card. For example, a pair of Queens would beat a pair of Jacks.If the hands are furthermore equivalent, for example, a pair of Aces vs. a pair of Aces, the Kicker, or the highest value card uncommon to the tied hands, determines the hand’s winner.
In the event that two or more winning hands at showdown are absolutely equal, (i.e. same ranking, kicker(s) etc.) the Pot will be split evenly between those hands. (See Split Pot Policy Below)
Tie Hands Policy (for Hi-Lo Poker variations only)
Whenever the live hands of two or more players during Showdown are of equivalent ranking (by combination):- The high hand winner is determined by the High Card. For example, a pair of Queens would beat a pair of Jacks.
- The low hand winner is determined by the Low Card. For example, a 3 would beat a 4. (if indeed the hands qualify for the low hand pot)
- In a Low hand, the winner is determined by the kicker, the lowest value card uncommon to the tied hands. (if indeed the hands qualify for the low hand pot)
- In a High hand, the winner is determined by the kicker, the highest value card uncommon to the tied hands.
Split Pot Policy
In the event of a tie between two or more players and the pot doesn’t split evenly between the winning players, the odd chip amount will go to the winning player seated closest to the left of the dealer, running clockwise.Play Time Limit Policy
There’s a 30-second time limit imposed in all cash games. This is done to keep an orderly flow of the games. If this time limit is exceeded, a player’s hand will be folded. There will be adequate warning as the time wanes to alert the player to act.All-in Policy (connection issue)
In the event of an Internet disconnection due to local outages or inconsistent signals in some players’ areas, members have their investment in a pot protected by means of ‘all-in protection’. All-in protection will serve to protect a player’s investment in a pot, up to the point they’ve contributed to it, similar to if they went all-in during the game. Players will only be eligible to win a pot that they have an investment in. All betting after the point of their disconnection will be placed in a side pot for the other players who have contributed further.Players will have 2 all-ins per 24 hour period. We suggest that players refrain from playing if they have a persisting connection issue until such time as it is resolved.
Players having had their all-in feature utilized will have to contact customer support in order to have the feature reset.
All-in Policy
Players in a poker game are never ineligible to win a pot up to the amount to which they contributed to it. In a no-limit hold’em game or pot-limit hold’em game, a player may find himself all-in more than in a limit game, but the principle of being all-in is the same. You are committed for all of your remaining chips.If you are all-in, you may win the main pot, but a side pot will be created for the players that continue to play in the hand after you’re no longer to call further bets. You could have a number of side pots in a single poker hand, dependent entirely on the relative chip stacks of the players. If there are staggered chip stack amounts and a number of players enter the same hand, side pots will result each time a player is all-in and betting action continues after that player is no longer with any chips.
The pot(s) will be awarded to the player with the highest hand, but only up to the amount (indicated by the side pots he is eligible to win) he was contributing to it. For example, let’s say there are three players, A, B, and C.
Player A had $100 to start the hand
Player B had $120 to start the hand
Player C had $200 to start the hand
Player A makes an all-in bet for $100. Player B moves all-in as well. Player C calls. A $300 pot consisting of $100 from each will be formed as the main pot, and a side pot of $40 ($20 from player B and $20 from player C) will also be formed. They’re all eligible to win the main pot, and that will of course go to the player with the best hand. But, the side pot is only being contested by players B and C, so even if player A has the best overall hand, the $40 side pot will go to the best hand between players B and C. If player B or C has the outright best hand, then that player would take BOTH the main pot, and the side pot.
Rake Policy
The rake is the amount charged as a fee by the house for hosting and conducting the games. For a full list of how these fees are applied, please see the Limits, Antes & Rake section of this site.Non-Collusion Policy
Collusion is defined as two or more players playing in concert with one another in an effort to affect the games in their favor. WSOP.com will not tolerate any instance of such circumstance and uses a variety of methods to detect, detract, and stamp out any play that appears questionable or untoward.Fair Play Policy
WSOP.com reserves the right to end membership and take appropriate actions to make right decidedly inappropriate incidents that may occur in the games.Disconnection Policy
If the server encounters an unexpected outage, we will treat games in progress accordingly:Cash games will roll back to the previous hand as if the present hand that was in progress (but not finished) never happened to begin with.
Tournaments that are in progress during a connection issue will be cancelled and the prize pool will be divided equally amongst all the players that are still in the tournament. Players who busted from the tournament prior to the connectivity issue remain unaffected and there will be no resolution affecting them.
Table Etiquette
WSOP.com will not tolerate language abuses, player harassment, or any conduct of that nature. As well, we ask that players adhere to standard poker etiquette practices such as not speaking of a hand while it is in play.Prize Award Policy
WSOP.com reserves the right to pay prizes in cash rather than in kind as required. Prizes in cash shall be paid in equal or greater value than the actual value of the prize affected.Rat Holing Policy
Because poker is played between players and does not involve the house, it is considered off-side and unsportsmanlike to leave a table with your winnings, only to return to the table again shortly thereafter, but only posting the original starting stack of chips. This practice is known as ‘rat holing’ and it’s bad form.WSOP.com’s system will not permit you to sit down at a table with less chips than you left with within a reasonable amount of time. If you sit down again, you will have to bring back the amount you left with or greater, so long as the greater is not more than the table’s upper limit.
Enjoy the tables and Good Luck!
