Two ways, both on the phone in your hand. Option A is free and already built into iOS. Option B is Paused, if you'd rather it happen automatically and be harder to tap past.
Free · built into iOS
Option A — Apple Screen Time
No download, no subscription. Apple's own App Limits can block WSOP Poker specifically, and Downtime can switch it off by time of day.
Turn Screen Time on. Open Settings → Screen Time. First time? Tap Turn On Screen Time, choose "This is My iPhone", and set a Screen Time passcode — pick four digits you won't type on reflex at 11pm.
Add an App Limit. Still in Screen Time, tap App Limits → Add Limit.
Select WSOP Poker. Apple sorts your apps into broad buckets and WSOP Poker sits with the Games apps. Tap the arrow beside Games to expand it and tick WSOP Poker only — or just type "WSOP Poker" into the search field at the top, which is faster. Tap Next.
Set the allowance. Choose how long WSOP Poker gets each day. 30 minutes is a soft cap; 1 minute is effectively off. Tap Customize Days if weekends should be different, then tap Add.
Turn on Block at End of Limit. Reopen the limit you just made and switch on Block at End of Limit. Without it, the "Ignore Limit" button hands the whole evening straight back to WSOP Poker.
Add Downtime for a time-of-day block. A daily budget isn't the same as "off after 10pm". For that, go back to Screen Time → Downtime → Scheduled and set the window (10pm–7am is the classic), then check that WSOP Poker is not listed under Always Allowed. During Downtime it's blocked outright — there's no allowance left to burn.
The honest catch: it works, but it's four screens deep in Settings, the limit resets its own way, and if you know the passcode you can undo it in about six seconds. That's why so many people set an App Limit once and never think about it again.
Automatic · one tap
Option B — block WSOP Poker with Paused
Same Apple blocking engine underneath, built for the one job: getting WSOP Poker out of your evening without you having to decide again every night.
Create a Block Schedule. Open Paused and create a Block Schedule — that's the recurring, automatic kind.
Pick WSOP Poker. Choose WSOP Poker from your installed apps. While you're in there, add the rest of your games time-sinks too — DraftKings Casino, FanDuel Casino, Golden Nugget Online Casino — because WSOP Poker is almost never the only one.
Choose the window. Set the days and hours: 10pm–7am so the night is yours, 9–5 for work, or 7–9pm so dinner and the evening stay phone-free.
Save it and forget it. That's the whole setup. From then on WSOP Poker turns itself off when the window starts and comes back on when it ends — no willpower, no remembering.
Use a Focus session when you need WSOP Poker gone right now. One tap starts a Focus session: pick a length — 25 minutes, two hours, until dinner is over — and WSOP Poker stays locked until the timer runs out.
Let the streak do the rest. Every day you keep the block stacks your streak. That's the part that keeps this working in week three, once the novelty of a fresh limit has worn off.
What it can see: nothing. Paused blocks through Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) framework, so it can stop WSOP Poker from opening without reading your messages, your browsing, or anything you do inside the app. Your usage stays on your device.
Why WSOP Poker is hard to put down
Free chips on a timer and tables always seated, so one hand is never the end of it.
Which is the point worth sitting with: you're not weak, you're up against a team of people whose job is the next tap. That's also why "I'll just be more disciplined" keeps failing and a dumb, boring wall — WSOP Poker simply doesn't open between 10pm and 7am — keeps working. Put the decision somewhere your 11pm self can't reach it.
And block the neighbours while you're there. Closing WSOP Poker and landing on the next games app in the same second is the most common way this falls apart — so block the cluster (DraftKings Casino, FanDuel Casino, Golden Nugget Online Casino), not the single worst offender.
