WCOOP 2007

Although a known tournament pro made the final table of event #8 of the WCOOP, a $530 buy-in Limit Omaha H/L event, the winner of the tournament was an amateur. A player simply called Copi beat a field 917 entrants to take the $103,804.40 first prize in a prize pool of $458,000, 150 thousand dollars […]

The 7th WCOOP Event was the first of two Limit Hold’em events of the series. Although it featured only an $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, by the time the tournament began the prize pool was four times that amount, a whopping $400,000! The field featured one of the strongest hold’em players out there, lilholdem954, who […]

We may have had our first player to ever have a WSOP bracelet and a WCOOP Bracelet. FossilMan, more commonly known as the WSOP 2004 main event winner Greg Raymer, beat out 771 people on the way to winning his first WCOOP event ever.  This event was a $320 rebuy and addon Pot-Limit Omaha hi, […]

The 5th Event of the WCOOP proved to be the best so far. The tournament had 6025 entrants and a prize pool of over 3 million dollars. AB_illusive, a respected high stakes cash game regular, took home almost 400 thousand dollars in the biggest prize pool of the WCOOP so far.
Many tournament pros entered including […]

So the WCOOP hasn’t been going very good, earlier in the year i won 2 WSOP packages on stars, so i got w$ for the 2nd package, decided I will use them towards the WCOOP and possibly save some to use to qualify for wsop or pca next year as well. So i […]

The World Championship of Online Poker’s $215 buy in, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball tournament, was the 4th installment of the WCOOP series. It was the smallest tournament of the Championship so far. It had a field of only 649 players, and a prize […]

The 3rd WCOOP tournament, a shorthanded $215 buy-in pot-limit Omaha high event, had a field of 1818 players and a prize pool of over $350,000. Although some professionals had a strong showing the eventual winner was jalla79, an amateur who took home just under $70,000.
This was the first of three Omaha high events of the […]

BadgerPro, a top MTT professional, recently entered the WCOOP Event #2: 5 Card Draw. He Final Tabled the event and recieved a 5th place finish for over $6,000. Interestingly enough, Badger hadn’t played 5 Card Draw seriously before he entered the event, but managed to use his knowledge of other games to help him excel.
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The 2nd WCOOP tournament, a 215 dollar buy-in pot-limit 5-card draw event, showed a field of 857 players and a prize pool exceeding 170,000 dollars. The eventual bracelet winner, spielraum.at from Salzburg, Austria, took home a cool 26,265 dollars, a nice chunk of change for a 215 dollar investment. However, because of a 4-way chop, […]

WCOOP kicks off, almost one million dollars up for grabs!
The World Championship of Online Poker kicked off last Friday with Event #1, Short Handed No Limit Hold’em, which had $215 buy in. Big names came out for the event, including Victor Ramdin, The__D__RY (16th ranked player on pocketfives.com), jcamby33 (former winner of […]