WCOOP 2009

This is it.  The culmination of the largest annual online poker tournament in the world - The World Championship of Online Poker.  Brought to you by… who else, the largest online poker site in the world, PokerStars.  The Main Event is the tournament to win in any tournament series, and the WCOOP Main Event is [continue]

They say poker is a game of luck. Someone should have gotten that memo to Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, who not only demonstrated that poker is a game of skill, but also demonstrated that he has the necessary prowess to take down his second bracelet of the 2009 series of the PokerStars WCOOP.
How can it be [continue]

When all was said and done, only one remained, and it happened to be a seasoned vet among the PokerStars pros. ElkY showes us how it is done, by taking down the PokerStars 2009 World Championship of Online Poker Event #38: $530 1R1A NLHE. This event exceeded its guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000 when 1,168 [continue]

One of the bigger fixed-limit events of the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker has come to an end.  Event #39, $1000+$50 6-max Fixed-Limit Hold’em, drew 437 of the world’s best poker players including numerous PokerStars sponsored professionals.
Chad Brown, Ylon Schwartz, and Andre “aakkari” Akkari all found themselves amongst the final three tables in the [continue]

The 2009 World Championship of Online Poker is on the cusp of its final weekend. Although all roads lead to the $5,000 Main Event, the action is still fierce in the preliminary tournaments. No more so than in Event #36, a $500 + $30 No Limit Hold ‘em 6-max tournament with rebuys. This lengthy event [continue]

We’re rolling into the final weekend for WCOOP 2009, as it was Event #34 wrapping up in the wee hours of the morning.  This event was a $215 no-limit Hold’em tournament featuring “big antes” from the start.  The guarantee was set at $500,000, but as has been the trend in the WCOOP, the guarantee was [continue]

The big guns turned out for WCOOP Event #33. The $1000 + $50 tournament was one of the higher buy-in No Limit Hold ‘em events on the Calendar and pokers brightest stars were keen to demonstrate their prowess. In the end, it didn’t quite happen that way. Among the long list of pros who failed [continue]

PokerStars implemented a double-chance tournament for their 30th event of the WCOOP; a $320 No Limit Hold ‘Em event..  What exactly is a double-chance?  As the name suggests, players were given two chances in the tournament.  If a player was stacked during the first hour of the tournament, they had a chance [continue]

The second of three 2-day events at the 2009 WCOOP came to a conclusion yesterday. These mammoth tournaments combine the speed of internet play with a big stack of chips, allowing the best players to flex their poker-skills against the backdrop of a slow structure. Event #28 attracted in 3268 runners willing to put up [continue]

Event #26 of PokerStars’ WCOOP was a $215 No Limit Hold ‘Em event.  With its low buy-in and $1 million guarantee, the event was immensely successful.  A total of 9,795 players registered for the tournament making the prize pool $1,959,000; that is almost $1 million greater than the event’s guarantee!
 The bubble burst at 1,440 players [continue]