WSOP-Style 2025

The WSOP-Style Series for 2025 finished on July 16th.

Congratulations Grizz, 🐭GamboMouse, jpassar and FerencL

By Profit

By Rate

Six Prizes, No Cash, Lots of Fun

There were six prizes, all physical awards; no cash:

I (Cliff Matthews, aka deadhead) played in the series but was ineligible for awards.

The awards were for the top three players on the leaderboard by profit and also by win rate at the end of the series.

To qualify for an overall win by rate prize, the player had to have completed at least seven tournaments. NOTE: that was seven different tournaments, so if you played in a tournament and re-entered, only the initial entry counted as one of your at-least-seven tournaments.

The # column in the WSOPS 2025 Leaderboard report is the total number of entries per player, not the number of distinct tournaments. So, simply having a value of seven or more in that column does not mean you’ve played seven or more distinct tournaments.

Overview

The WSOP-Style Series 2025 was a set of free tournaments—one per day—from May 27th through July 16th. Those were the days of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The WSOP provides the inspiration for this series.

This series is not even remotely affiliated with the World Series of Poker.

Each day’s tournament (except one) in the WSOP-Style series was a modified version of a tournament that was played in real life on the same day at the WSOP. In general, the same WSOP blind structure and most rules applied.

All of these WSOP-Style tournaments were played in one day, with five minute breaks every hour. Each started at 5:05 pm Pacific time (8:05 pm Eastern).

Late registration varied per tournament, but was always available for at least thirty-five minutes after the tournament started.

Many tournaments allowed one or more re-entries.

All were welcome

All events in this series were open to the public.

Round Duration

All levels were five minutes long.

There was a five minute break that started after each table had completed a hand at 55 minutes past the hour or later. That means the last table to finish a hand at 55 minutes past the hour or later got exactly a five minute breaks and all other tables had been paused while waiting for that table to finish a hand.

Leaderboard

There is a “WSOPS 2025 Leaderboard” entry in the Leaderboard menu available in the lobby. By default, only players with a net Fun Money win show up on leaderboards, but if you’ve played and have a net loss, you can see your entry by having the shift key held down when you select an entry from the Leaderboard menu.

The Tournaments

The link in the W# column is a link to the actual WSOP structure sheet for comparison purposes. The link in the Event column is a link to the Mb2 structure sheet and will be definitive.

July 7th

At the WSOP, July 7th only had Flight B of event #85. I.e., there was no WSOP tournament unique to July 7th. Since this series already dealt #85 on July 6th, we chose to plug the July 7th hole with a BARGE inspired structure, “SAM_6”, a four game mix of:

• Scrotum
• Action Razz
• Murder
• 6-card Sohe

“Sam_6” was the nickname of David Lawful, a generous member of BARGE. He liked to play odd games, although he was a formidable opponent in all and a BARGE main event winner (2013).