ClubWPT is an online poker club and website affiliated with the World Poker Tournament. The site bills itself as the best legal poker room in the United States, it is able to operate legally due to the way memberships and costs to play are managed. In order to remain legal to operate and play, subscriptions may vary as to availability depending on a players location. In order to comply with the laws of individual states, the club may not be available in all states. The site is owned by PartyGaming which also runs PartyPoker.com in addition to a number of other sites. The site is designed to offer an alternative to Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker for US-based players who cannot use other sites due to legal concerns. The site has been marketed via advertisements on the World Poker Tour and “High Stakes Poker” television episodes. The site states they award over $100,000 worth of cash and prizes each month to players.

For legal reasons, players cannot make deposits or “buy in” to a tournament using cash. Buy-ins are paid using Tournament Points which are included as part of the VIP memberships to the site. VIP memberships come with an initial balance of 500 tournament points which can be used to gain entry to various single or multiple table tournaments, some of which award cash and prizes for winning while others award entrance to tournaments with larger prize pools to the winners. Tournament points cannot be manually reloaded by the users but are automatically “topped up” each day that the VIP membership remains active. VIP memberships cost $19.95 per month billed monthly after an initial free trial of 14 days. The free trial automatically converts to a paid membership if not cancelled and paid memberships renew automatically each month until cancelled. The memberships do not have a commitment term and can be cancelled at any time using the following instructions if desired.