The World Series of Poker scheduled more online bracelet events for 2025 than any other series.
When WSOP Online announced its bracelet schedule in April, there were 30 online poker events on the schedule. Since the WSOP Online platform had shared liquidity across Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey, making it the first year where tournament officials only needed one set of online bracelet events.
However, after Monday’s debacle, the series will only crown 29 online bracelet winners.
The WSOP canceled the seventh online event of the summer, a $250 no limit hold’em mystery bounty event, after the restart of Day 2. Tournament officials made the decision after the majority of players experienced geolocation issues and couldn’t log into the client.
The WSOP made this post at 8:21 p.m., nearly two hours after the 6:30 restart time.
Today’s restart of Online Bracelet Event #7 encountered technical difficulties which resulted in a high number of players unable to log in for the tournament.
Therefore the tournament has been cancelled and all players who were in the field on the start of Day 2 will be…
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 10, 2025
Prior to the cancellation, a player reportedly knocked out a player and drew the $100,000 top mystery bounty. According to a social media post from longtime poker industry member and 2019 WSOP main event fourth-place finisher Garry Gates, a player under the screen name “DaSurrealist” pulled the big bounty.
As of Tuesday morning, WSOP hasn’t released public information about the prize pool or bounty.
Players React
Some players posted screenshots that showed the platform continually trying to verify their location. Others replied that they experienced similar issues in other tournaments as well.
Poker vlogger Johnnie “Vibes” Moreno shared an interesting hand that played out when the tournament froze and WSOP ended the event. Moreno held A-K and was waiting to see how things would play out.
“I’m all in with a big hand on WSOP dot com and the client is frozen,” he posted on X/Twitter. “Been like four minutes now. Longest sweat ever. Saw I was called but no runout yet.
About a 10 minute sweat before WSOP announced they canceled the tournament. Never got to see the runout as they hit the kill switch with impeccable timing 😂😂😂 https://t.co/yN52d6Vhfa pic.twitter.com/p7NCH26wjL
— Johnnie VIBES (@JohnnieVibes) June 10, 2025
He later added: “I need closure.”
Five-time bracelet winner Adam Friedman was also one of the affected players.
I’m currently disconnected in the mystery bounty, but I can play the circuit event. I’ve never seen anything like this. https://t.co/D4oVknCOjM
— Ada❌ Fried❌an (@AdamFriedman119) June 10, 2025
WSOP Rules On Refunds
According to the WSOP Online terms of service, the players will receive their buy-in back and get an equal chop of the remaining prize pool. The terms of service reads as follows:
“Players who were not eliminated at time of cancellation will: be refunded any buy-in, knock out fees, rebuys and add-ons which they have purchased in relation to the cancelled tournament; and share equally (regardless of a player’s chip count) the higher of the buy-ins, applicable knock out fees, rebuys and add-ons purchased by those who have been eliminated prior to the cancellation of the tournament; or the guaranteed prize pool less the amounts distributed in.”
