The World Series of Poker has launched two products at once: a free, gamified training app called WSOP Academy, and a paid WSOP+ membership that stacks discounts, lounge access and unlocked features on top of it. Both went live on June 18 and both hang off a GG Pass login — the same account framework that already underpins GGPoker, Natural8 and ClubGG across much of Asia.
One thing to clear up first: this WSOP+ is not the old WSOP+ check-in app, which has since been renamed WSOP Live. The new WSOP+ is a subscription tier system, and the Academy is the headline act.
Negreanu, a Poker IQ test, and a learning path
WSOP Academy is a standalone download on the App Store and Google Play, free to use once you sign in with a GG Pass account. New users start with a short Poker IQ quiz — a mix of basic rules, quick math, and hand play-throughs — before moving into a Learning Path of ten units. Those run from the absolute basics through preflop hand selection, flop play, turn decisions and spotting exploits, with an animated Daniel Negreanu posing the questions at each stage.
The build leans hard into gamification. You earn XP, level up, and climb a Standings tab against everyone else grinding the app, and each level ends with a boss-style challenge against a character named Finn. It is squarely aimed at newer players — exactly the recreational wave that has fuelled the boom in clubs and home games from Bangkok to Seoul.
Three tiers, and the ClubGG hook
The membership splits into three levels. The free tier comes automatically with any GG Pass account and includes the Poker IQ evaluation, all training units, a first challenge, ten “High Roller Table” practice hands a day, and unrestricted ClubGG play.
WSOP+ Basic, at $9.99 a month, adds extra challenges against Negreanu, Maria Ho and 2025 Main Event champion Michael Mizrachi, bumps the practice hands to fifty a day, throws in a 5% WSOP Store discount and one daily Plus Lounge visit, and unlocks ClubGG tools — Smart HUD, Rabbit Hunt, Squeeze and PokerCraft — plus six-table play. The $49.99 Premium tier removes the limits: unlimited practice hands, unlimited Plus Lounge, a shot at the “Sharky” final challenge, twelve-table ClubGG with Final Stage re-entry, and special merch.
The ClubGG layer is the part Asian players should read twice. ClubGG is woven through the region’s agent-and-club model, so tying its tools and table caps to a WSOP membership quietly nudges casual app users toward the wider GG ecosystem. Whether a learn-to-play app needs a $50 tier is the open question — but as an on-ramp for the next generation of players, the Academy is the most interesting thing the WSOP has shipped off the felt this summer.