Another day gone by, and another great event in the books! This time it was the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event #27, $25000+$500 USD Hold’em No Limit Heads-Up. That’s $25 THOUSAND DOLLARS to buy in, so you could be assured that the field for this particular event was comprised entirely of the [...]

Another day gone by, and another great event in the books! This time it was the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event #24, $500+$30 USD Hold’em No Limit Heads-Up.  1564 hopefuls showed up for a night of extremely deepstacked poker, to determine once and for all who is the best NLHE HU player. [...]

As this year’s World Championship of Online Poker approaches its midpoint, it already looks like the most successful series yet. Numerous events have smashed their guarantees and each tournament has seen thousands of players packed in to compete. Event #21 was no exception, with 2,780 players logging on to compete in a $200 + $15 [...]

Friday night was another big night for the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker hosted by PokerStars. Three big events, including Event #23, a $300+$20 NL Freeze-Out, kicked off a big weekend for the tournament series. Event 23 was merely a $300,000 guaranteed tournament; however, over 2,600 players entered, creating an $802,800 prize pool! Entering [...]

PokerStars’ WCOOP Event #14 was a mixed hold ‘em event switching from No Limit to Limit Hold ‘Em every ten minutes.  The $320 Mixed Hold ‘Em event saw a 1,563 player field for a prize pool of $468,900.  Many world-class professional poker players were present for the event such as Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Barry [...]

One of the more interesting events of the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker has come to an end.  The $500+$30 No-Limit Triple Shootout is in the books.  The $500,000 guarantee ended up being just that, as 1,000 players ponied up for a chance at over $91,000 in first-place money.  For those unfamiliar with this [...]

Event #16 of the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is in the books.  One of the bigger buy-in tournaments proved that the cream does in fact rise to the top.  The $1,000+$50 buy-in attracted over 1,500 competitors, creating a massive $1,558,000 prize pool.  Many of the world’s best tournament players were on hand [...]

PokerStars introduced their $215 4-max No Limit Hold ‘Em WCOOP tournament last year to high acclaim. The 2009 tournament was even more popular with 3,864 entrants and a prize pool of $770,800. The first place finisher would win $111,457.69. The final table players and chip counts stacked up as follows: Seat 1 -pejcao with 2,765,239 [...]

Event 11 finally came to an end after about a day and a half of play. This event was a no limit Hold ‘Em tourney with a $530 buy in and $30 fee, and was pretty generous in the prize pool. $3 million was guaranteed for the pool, and it was added to before the [...]

Do you remember Men In Black? Specifially, when Will Smith asked the officer why the lot were summoned, the officer replied: “Well, because you are the best of the best of the best!” This expression truly applies to last night’s event, the 2009 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker event #10: $10,300 High Rollers. Why [...]