Once embraced as one of the most likeable characters in the game, Daniel Negranu has drawn a sizable amount of heat over the past several months. From his criticism of Ultimate Bet to his well-publicized slur toward Annie Duke, Kid Poker has found himself in the limelight a bit more often than he and his employers would like, perhaps.

Now, it seems, he’s given detractors more fuel for their hate machine.

Almost 2500 players entered the $5,200 WCOOP Main Event to do battle for over 2 days. The grueling tournament boasted first prize money in excess of $2.2 million. Event 62 attracted top talent such as shaundeeb and FlopTurnRiver’s maxxscam who finished in 48th position. A number of Team PokerStars Pros also registered for the Main [...]

The World Championship of Online Poker has been taking place over the past few weeks at PokerStars, and has paid out a staggering amount of cash to the thousands of players involved. In the recent $10,000 8-Game Championship Event, there was more than just money on the line as controversy erupted over a player’s actions, [...]

The World Championship of Online Poker is winding down, but the excitement sure is not. WCOOP Event #60 took place on Sunday, a day that is normally reserved for PokerStars’ weekly Sunday Million. Most everything remained the same including the $215 buy-in and the $1.5 million guarantee. However, the aura of the tournament was very [...]

There was never any danger of the PokerStars 2010 World Championship of Online Poker petering out with a whimper, but even the most cynical observer would have been impressed by the sheer volume of tournaments packed into the series’ final weekend. One of these climactic contests was Event #55, a $500 + $30 No Limit [...]

The 2010 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is currently underway, and host to a great variety of different events. Among the more popular are the two-day events being run, and one such tournament took place this week. APowers1968 proved he had what it takes to outwit and outlast his opponents over a grueling two [...]

The internet is alive with the sound of tournament poker. The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has been taking place this month, offering poker pros and rookies alike a shot at their share of the staggering $50,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools. Thus far in the series a great deal of fun has been had [...]

Throughout the 2010 World Championship of Poker there have been plenty of big buy-in events with huge paydays. Actually, some of the smallest fields have produced the biggest prize pools, especially the re-buy events. A great example of this was Event #53, the $500+$30 re-buy championship which finished up early Friday morning. The tournament only [...]

Very early this morning Event 50 of this year’s WCOOP wrapped up, the No Limit Texas Hold’em $200+$15 Big Antes tournament. In a Big Antes tournament, antes appear at the start of the tournament and, at 20% of the big blind, are much larger than usual. Event 50 had a $600k guarantee, but the guarantee [...]

The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker turned up the speed with Event 45. There were a couple of things about said tournament that made it one of the most action-packed tournaments of the WCOOP. Firstly, every player had a $50 bounty on their head that needed to be paid on top of the $200 [...]