Terms & Conditions

The Early Bird chip bonus

Register for a PSOP event before it starts and you begin with 10% more chips.

This applies to all 92 PSOP events, and there is no limit on the number of players who receive it. If a thousand players register early, a thousand players get the boost.

Qualifying

Be registered before the first hand is dealt. Registering during late registration does not qualify.

If you won your seat in a satellite, your entry is taken the moment the satellite finishes, so you qualify as long as it ends before your event starts. Every event has a Last Chance satellite that starts two hours before it.

What the boost is

It is a deeper starting stack. Nothing is added to your account, and the prize pool is unchanged, so no other player's prize is affected. It is applied automatically and there is nothing to claim.

The Reload Bonus

A match on what you deposit for the series, released as you play.

The offer

Deposit during the promotion and we match 150% of your deposit, up to 3,000 USDT. The bonus opens on 3 October, the same day the satellites start.

How it is released

The bonus is released in stages as you play, measured against the rake you generate. The rate is 3.5×, so clearing the full 3,000 requires 10,500 USDT of rake.

Each stage you reach is credited to your account and is yours to keep. If the promotion window closes before you have cleared the full amount, you keep everything released up to that point. The remainder is not awarded. Nothing already credited is taken back.

All rake counts towards it, on any game and at any stake: cash games, PSOP events, satellites and our regular schedule.

What counts where

Two races run alongside the series. They read different things.

A seat won in a satellite or a freeroll counts on the Rally at the buy-in of the event it puts you into, as though you had paid for it.

Re-entries. You score once on the Leaderboard for each event, taking your best finish in it. On the Rally, every entry and re-entry scores separately, because the Rally measures how much you play.

How Leaderboard points are earned

Your finishing position sets a base score. Three multipliers scale it.

The multipliers

• Buy-in. 25 and 50 are ×0.75, 100 is ×1, 200 is ×1.25, 500 is ×1.5, 1,000 is ×1.75, 5,000 is ×4.
• Field size. Under 50 entries is ×1, then ×1.25 at 50, ×1.5 at 100, ×1.75 at 150, ×2 at 200, ×2.25 at 300, ×2.5 at 500.
• Format. Every mixed-game event is ×1.2.

Field size is total entries including re-entries, counted when late registration closes.

The prizes

150,000 PHNM across 150 places.

First place also wins a WSOP Paradise package. See section 06.

When players finish level

The prizes for the tied places are added together and divided equally between the tied players.

The prize pool stays at exactly 150,000 PHNM however many ties there are.

Tied players occupy the places they would occupy if they were ranked. Two players level on the most points occupy 1st and 2nd, not 1st and 1st, and the next player down is 3rd.

Prizes are paid in whole tokens. Where a split does not divide evenly, each share is rounded down and the remaining tokens are given out one each, to the tied players in the order they reached that points total, earliest first.

Examples

This covers the token prizes. A WSOP package cannot be divided, so a tie for 1st means the two players take 20,000 PHNM each and one of them wins the package. Section 06 decides which.

The two WSOP Paradise packages

One goes to the Leaderboard winner. One goes to the highest Rally points total.

Breaking a tie

A package is one seat and one set of flights and cannot be shared. If two players finish level on points, we work down the following steps and stop at the first one that separates them. This decides the package only. The token prizes for tied places are always pooled and divided, as set out in section 05.

1. Most event wins.
2. Most final tables.
3. Most events played.
4. Highest total buy-ins.
5. Whoever reached the tied total first.

The same five steps apply to both packages. Wins, final tables and events played are counted across the 92 PSOP events and read from the official finishing order, so a deal at the table does not change them (section 07). Total buy-ins count every paid entry, satellites and re-entries included.

If a winner cannot use their package

If a winner cannot travel, or the WSOP will not admit them, the package passes to the next player on the same cascade. It is not converted into cash or tournament dollars.

Packages are non-transferable and cannot be sold or assigned. Travel is booked by Phenom. Anything not named in the package is the winner's own cost.

Deals and ICM chops

A deal never ends the tournament. Once it is agreed you keep playing — for your finishing place, for your Leaderboard points, and for the trophy.

PSOP events allow deal-making. When the last two players agree a deal, our software applies an ICM split to the remaining prize money, dividing it according to the chips each player holds rather than by the published payout structure. This is why the top two payouts at a PSOP final will often not match the structure exactly.

• Play always continues to a winner. Agreeing a deal settles the money between you; it does not stop the event and it does not decide who wins it. The cards decide the order, exactly as they would have done. Leaderboard points follow the official finishing order, so the player who wins scores 100 and the runner-up scores 75. The trophy and the Wall of Fame plate go to whoever actually wins.
• The money agreed in a deal never changes the points. Points are read from the finishing positions. A player who deals for more than the published first prize does not score more, and a player who deals for less does not score less.
• If play stops with more than one player left and a title is awarded, the champion scores for 1st and everyone still seated scores the points for the lowest remaining position. With three players left, the champion scores 1st and the other two both score 3rd.

On our platform, deals are heads-up only and play always continues to a winner, so the first rule covers every deal that can currently happen. The third is written in as a catch-all.

Deals do not affect the Rally. Rally points are credited when your entry is taken.

The PSOP Rally

Every buy-in scores. You are not playing against anyone.

You earn 5 points for every 100 CHIP of buy-in, which is 0.05 points per CHIP. Satellites are included and re-entries are counted separately. You collect the tokens for the highest milestone you reach. Milestones are not cumulative: reaching 225 points pays 500 PHNM, not 500 plus everything below it.

Points are calculated across your total buy-ins for the series, so an entry below 20 CHIP earns a fraction of a point and still counts. Eight 2.50 CHIP satellites come to 1 point. A 100 event is 5 points, and a 5,000 event is 250.

There is no cut-off and no top-N. Any milestone you reach is paid. Points are credited when your entry is taken, so busting the first hand still scores.

The top milestone is 1,000 points, or 20,000 CHIP of buy-ins. Entering all 92 events once costs 28,900, so you can miss several events and still reach it.

If two players tie on Rally points

The milestones cannot tie. There is no ranking and no cut-off, so everyone who reaches a milestone is paid for it whatever anyone else does. A tie on Rally points affects only the WSOP Paradise Event #1 package, which goes to the single highest points total. Section 06 sets out how that tie is broken.

Your PHNM tokens

Every token won in this series is locked for one year.

250,000 PHNM sits on top of the cash prize pools: 150,000 on the Leaderboard across 150 places, and up to 100,000 on the Rally. None of it comes out of an event prize pool.

The lock. Tokens are credited to your account on the day you win them and they are yours from that moment. They unlock twelve months later. Until then they cannot be transferred, sold or withdrawn.

Token amounts are quoted as tokens. We do not publish a dollar value, because the price moves.

Hands, footage and publicity

By playing in the series you agree that we can show some of it.

By entering any PSOP event or satellite:

• You agree that a limited number of the hands you play may be made public, including hole cards, and used by Phenom Poker for marketing, editorial and promotional purposes, in any medium, with no time limit and at no cost to us.
• You agree that your alias, avatar, country flag, finishing position, points and prizes may be published on the series pages, the Leaderboard, the Wall of Fame and in our marketing.
• You grant us the right to license this to partners and media reporting on the series, on the same terms.

What we will not do

• We will not publish your real name without your explicit consent. Alias only, by default.
• Hole cards are never shown live. Any broadcast or clip showing hole cards goes out with a delay of at least one hour from the time of play, so nothing we publish can affect a tournament still running.
• We will not publish your account details, balance or deposits.

Ownership

The hand records, hand histories, tournament data and footage generated by our software belong to Phenom Poker, as do the copyright and database rights in them and in anything we make from them. You keep your own right to talk about, stream and write about your own play.

If you stream your own play, use a delay.

Fair play

One person, one account, playing their own cards, unaided.

The following void your points on both boards and any prize arising from them. The places below you move up.

• Collusion. Sharing card information, soft-playing, or working together against other players at the table.
• Chip dumping. Deliberately losing chips to another player.
• Multi-accounting. Playing more than one account in the same event, or playing an account that is not yours.
• Ghosting. Anyone other than the account holder advising on or making decisions during play, including a backer.
• Real-time assistance. Solvers, charts, bots or any software that suggests actions while a hand is in progress.
• Exploiting a fault in our software rather than reporting it.

Where we find any of this we may also freeze the balance, void the entries and close the account, under our main Terms of Service.

Staking is allowed. Nothing here prevents you being backed. What is not allowed is your backer playing your account, or telling you what to do while a hand is live.

Satellites and tickets

Satellites feed every event, from 2.50 CHIP upwards.

Satellites award either a seat in a PSOP event or a ticket to a further satellite. A ticket names the level it is good for: a sub-satellite pays a ticket into the satellite above it, and that satellite pays the seat. Every event has a Last Chance satellite on its own day, two hours before it starts.

• Seats and tickets are not transferable and cannot be sold, given away or exchanged for cash.
• PSOP tickets expire when the series ends on 15 November 2026. Check that something your ticket can enter is still scheduled. Satellites run at 2.50, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 500 CHIP, and not every level runs every day.
• Winning a seat registers you for the event as soon as your satellite finishes, which is also what earns you the Early Bird chip bonus.
• Satellite buy-ins count on the Rally, at every step of the ladder.

Winning more than one seat into the same event

If you win a seat in an event you have already qualified for, the second win is paid out as tournament money, at the value of the buy-in plus fee. You can use it to enter any other event or satellite in the series.

Unregistering

PSOP satellites do not allow you to unregister from the event you have won into. Winning the seat commits you to playing it. Where an individual satellite is an exception, its lobby will say so.

If an event is cancelled

What happens depends on how far the event had progressed.

How a cancelled event affects the boards

• A refunded event scores on neither board. You did not pay, so there is nothing to count.
• A pre-money settlement awards no Leaderboard points. Nobody reached the money, so there are no positions to pool and nothing to divide.
• An event settled on the bubble or in the money still scores on the Leaderboard. Nobody played for a finishing position, so the points for every position still live are pooled and divided between the remaining players in the same proportions as the money. A player who takes 40% of the settlement takes 40% of the pooled points. Shares are worked out to two decimal places. Players already eliminated in the money score for the position they finished in, as normal.
• Rally points are kept wherever the buy-in was not refunded.

Disconnections

A disconnection is not grounds for a refund. If you lose your connection during a tournament your hand is played out by the software: you are dealt in, blinds and antes are posted, and you are folded to any bet.

Who can take part

You must be of legal age in your jurisdiction and permitted to play on Phenom Poker under our main Terms of Service. Your account must be in good standing.

The series is open to players in every territory we serve. There are no jurisdictions excluded from the Leaderboard, the Rally or the packages.

Ambassadors and Team Pros are eligible for everything, including both WSOP packages. They play the series alongside everyone else.

General

Standings shown during the series are provisional. They sync from the results API and can lag a finishing table by a few minutes. The final standings are the ones confirmed after the last event has paid out.

Prizes are paid within 14 days of the series ending and the final standings being confirmed. Tokens are credited to your Phenom account. Package winners are contacted directly to arrange travel.

Where these terms are silent, or a situation arises that they do not cover, Phenom's decision is final.

Any change to these terms will be published on this page and will not apply retrospectively to points already scored or prizes already won.

Our deposit limits, session limits and self-exclusion tools are in your account settings. Using them does not affect any prize you have already won.

Questions about anything on this page: support@phenompoker.com.