The Sunday Million was taken over by PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker yesterday, and it proved to be a great success.  Over 11,000 players entered the $200+$15 NL Freeze-Out creating a massive $2,226,200 prize pool with over $300,000 guaranteed for first place. The final table started with three players holding more than 11,000,000 chips, [...]

It is a testament to the strength and popularity of PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) that the 11,131 strong field for Event #9 was not even the largest seen this series. As part of the guarantees totalling $40 million this year, $1 million had been laid on for the $200 + $15 No [...]

The 2009 World Championship of Online Poker continued yesterday with event #6, a $100 + $9 no-limit Hold’em tournament with $1 million guaranteed.  The WCOOP continues to draw huge fields and destroy the guarantees and this tournament was no exception.  A total of 15,675 entrants paid the fee, bringing the total prize pool to $1,567,500, [...]

The World Championship of Online Poker is back!  With a huge variety of tournaments spanning the next 17 days, this year’s WCOOP could possibly be PokerStars best. Kicking things off was Event #1, a $200+$15 buy-in NL 6-max Freeze-Out with a $1,250,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament easily eclipsed its guarantee, as 8,538 players created [...]

The most hotly anticipated event in the online poker calendar begins today at PokerStars. The 7th annual World Championship of Online Poker is aptly billed as the internet equivalent of the World Series of Poker. It’s a place where all the top pros join hordes of amateurs to battle it out for monster prize pools [...]

Currently running (and will continue to do so until August 16) are tons of satellites on PokerStars to qualify for the upcoming World Championship of Online Poker. In total, PokerStars guarantees a total of 2,350 seats to be given out in their WCOOP Extreme Satellites! A total of 28 Satellites will have more than $1,000,000 [...]

PokerStars has unveiled one of their biggest promotions ever – increased deposit bonuses! It is commonly agreed upon that PokerStars reigns king in online tournaments, player base size, and name recognition, but one area players felt they fell short was in the deposit bonus arena.  A 100% up to $50 first deposit bonus just didn’t [...]

Set to begin on September 3rd, the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker is going to be the largest online poker series in history!  The schedule is made up of 45 events, including three high rollers, with a guaranteed prize pool of more than $40,000,000!  That’s enough cash to make anyone swoon! But how are [...]