WSOP Players Furious Over New Satellite Lammers Policy

Players at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) have reacted with fury at discovering their satellite lammers were no longer being accepted by cashiers without proof of having won them.

Max Silver described the WSOP move as “scummy as hell”

Joseph Cheong tweeted: “They’ve been allowing ppl to use lammers all series. And every year up til now. Def fucking a lot of ppl over if suddenly enforcing this.” Thomas Keeling tweeted: “Just seems like a straight up scam if they're issuing lammers to people and then refusing to accept them.”

Michael Lech tweeted: “Found this out yesterday as well when a friend was unable to register with lammers. Pretty absurd, wouldn’t have played so many satellites after already winning mine if I was aware this was the case vs how it’s been every other year. Is there any other way to redeem them?” Marty Mathis tweeted: “I won lammers in an online sat, but used 6k of them for the 3k 6m. I used my leftover 4k + cash to register yesterday for main and they didn't attempt to verify anything from what I could tell. Seems like a weird rule.”

Kevin Mathers tweeted: “In a conversation I just had with Operations Manager Tyler Pipal. He told me he or an associate in Player Services would approve someone as a 1-time courtesy with TBIC’s [Tournament Buy-In Chips] that were not noted to that player.”

Chase Bianchi called the WSOP’s decision “literally stealing” Frank Op de Woerd added: “...I think the defense will be that this has always been officially the case, just not enforced so far.”