WSOP-Style 2025
No Prizes, No Cash, Just Fun
There will be no prizes.
Overview
The WSOP-Style Series is a set of free tournaments—one per day—from May 27th through July 16th. Those are 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 is a modified version of a tournament that will be played in real life on the same day at the WSOP. In general, the same WSOP blind structure and most rules will apply.
All of these WSOP-Style tournaments are played in one day, with five minute breaks every hour. Each starts at 5:05 pm Pacific time (8:05 pm Eastern).
You can see how long each of the WSOP-Style series tournaments lasted last year by clicking on the WSOP-Style 2024 link and then clicking on the winner's nickname. That will bring up a list of who played and when they bust.
Late registration varies per tournament, but is always available for at least thirty-five minutes after the tournament starts.
Many tournaments allow one or more re-entries.
All are welcome
All events in this series are open to the public.
Round Duration
All levels will be five minutes long.
There will be a five minute break that will start after each table has 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 will get exactly a five minute breaks and all other tables will be paused while waiting for that table to finish a hand.
Leaderboard
There will be 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 will be a link to the
Mb2 structure sheet and will be definitive.
Mb2 Structure Sheets Coming Soon
Currently, although the schedule has been finalized, the actual events haven't been created. As such, the links to the structure sheets simply take you to this paragraph.
July 7th
At the WSOP, July 7th only has Flight B of event #85. There is no WSOP tournament unique to July 7th and all these WSOP-Style events are single day events, and we're dealing #85 on July 6th. We've chosen to plug the July 7th hole with a BARGE inspired structure, "SAM_6", a four game mix of:
"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).