WCOOP 2008

One of the most appealing factors of the annual WCOOP is that it offers a little bit of everything, tailoring to the varying preferences of online poker players from all over the world.  Event #27 of this year’s WCOOP was no exception as it provided a twist that the previous 26 events did not.  In [continue]

It was only fitting that the richest online tournament series of all time finished off with the richest online tournament prize pool of all time. There have been few online events, if any, that were more anticipated than the WCOOP 2008 Main Event, a $5,200 No Limit Holdem event. With $10 Million guaranteed, the best [continue]

Event #30 of this years bumper WCOOP was one for the Omaha purists. Although there has been a healthy selection throughout the series, this was the first Omaha event that came with no added extras. Merely a simple Pot Limit tournament that was sure to separate the fish from the sharks in the Omaha ocean.
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One of the bigger buy-in tournaments, the $10,000+300 HORSE Championship took place this past Saturday.  As is the case for most HOSRE events, many of the world’s top poker professional were on hand to display their mastery of five different poker games.
For those unaware, HORSE is an acronym for five fixed-limit poker games
H=Hold’em
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The World Championship of Online Poker’s Event 29 proved to be a huge success this past Friday.  The 6-max, No-Limit Texas Hold’em rebuy event pulled 852 players for a total of 1,011 rebuys and 658 add-ons.  With the buy-in at $530, the prize pool far exceeded the $400,000 guarantee.  It hit a whopping $1,260,500.  The [continue]

Six max games are aggressive by nature. Make it a tournament, factor in over $152,000 for first, and the game gets downright nasty. That’s exactly what happened in WCOOP Event 26, a $320 NLHE six-max event. 3,273 players came out, taking the original $500,000 guaranteed prize pool all the way up to $981,900! This created [continue]

748 of thew world’s biggest gamblers sat down for WCOOP Event #25, the $320-rebuy Pot-Limit Omaha Championship.  Plenty of big names were on hand as PLO is steadily becoming the game of choice in high-stake circles.  A large contingent of Team PokerStars Pros played in the event, including WSOP Main Event winners Greg Raymer and [continue]

Event #23 in the Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker was a $530 buyin NL Hold’em tournament offering the option of one rebuy during the first hour, and one add-on during the first break. The enthusiasm for this format was apparent, with 1,159 players as the event kicked off. After 807 rebuys, and 954 [continue]

Event 13 of the World Championship of Online Poker featured one of the most popular events of the series: the $215 rebuy tournament. The popularity of this tournament was reflected in the turnout – 2234 players participated, inflating the prize pool up to $1,278,600, and past its original $1 million guarantee.
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Apologies for the delay as Hurricane Ike has made life difficult for most of us on the Texas Coast-line.
Event 12 of PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP, took place this past Wednesday, September 10th. The tournament uses a mixed structure, switching from Limit Hold’em to No Limit Hold’em every level and a [continue]