The World Series of Poker has become the latest poker tournament to implement measures designed to speed up play, announcing a rule change for the 2017 Series that fundamentally alters the way a player can be put "on the clock."
Over the past couple of years, a number of poker tournament series have taken steps to speed up the pace of play and prevent stalling. The World Poker Tour implemented the Action Clock, a tablet-like timer set into the poker table in front of the dealer, in its WPT Tournament of Champions.