Posts Tagged ‘World Championship of Online Poker’
TourneyMan on September 14th, 2009
The Poker Stars 2009 World Championship of Online Poker is still raging and after a power-packed weekend, there are several online poker players a heck of a lot richer. For example, one Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov is $140,000 richer after taking down Event #24, the $530 Heads-Up event. He beat out JakusKhan, who took the $120,000 second prize. The thing is, Katchalov already has over $3 million in poker winnings, including a World Poker Tour title.
In 2007 Katchalov, hailing originally from Kiev, Ukraine and more recently from Brooklyn, New York, won the Bellagio Cup III and its $118,785 top prize. But he won most of his nearly $3 million in December of 2007 with an almost $2.5 million win at the World Poker Tour Season 6: WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
The WCOOP HU event had a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, and was the first at this year’s PokerStars WCOOP to have an overlay (1,564 players came up short $218,000.
TourneyMan on September 2nd, 2009
This past Sunday, August 30, in stark contrast to the unfortunate overlays of late, so many people registered for the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up that the $750,000 guaranteed prize pool increased to $820,000 – making the first prize $128,000 which went to CucbKu after chopping the pot with the runner-up Jarfish, who got a respectable $101,000 for his showing.
Meanwhile, 8,933 players turned out for the PokerStars Sunday Million bring the prize pool to $1.7 million. In that event 1,350 players cashed, and the final 5 players chopped the pot, CesarSPA who had the chip lead, and so took the nearly $209,000 lion’s share even though he only came in second, and angiebug4 coming back from the short stack to win the event and take hom nearly $127,000.
Meanwhile, don’t forget, the 2009 PokerStars WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) starts tomorrow, with $40 million guaranteed is cash prizes.
PokerHub on August 24th, 2009
It’s not too late too win a free seat in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker. Every evening at 7 pm ET Poker Stars is running a WCOOP Challenge freeroll tournament in which, at each freeroll, the site is giving away 9 seats in a September 12 final qualifier, in which the top 3 finishers will will $5,200 seats in the 2009 WCOOP Main Event.
Players have an additional chance – many chances, actually – to qualify for the September 12 final, in which, also at stake are prizes of other WCOOP seats with values ranging from $27 to $1,050, for buy-ins ranging from just $1 to $10.
The only catch to all this: these WCOOP Challenge events are only open to players from Ireland and the U.K..
With 45 events over 18 days, the WCOOP is set to be one of the year’s biggest online poker tournaments – again.
PokerHub on August 13th, 2009
In January of this year we told you about the exciting World Championship of Online Poker hosted by PokerStars each year. Well, the time is almost upon us for the next running of this rewarding series.
The buy-ins for the 33 events in the series range mostly in the hundreds of dollars, but you can get yourself into the running much cheaper by entering one of the site’s Extreme Satellites. These satellites will each award either 50 or 100 seats of a particular value. For example, the top 100 placers in one Extreme Satellite may each win a $215 buy-in that they can then apply to any 2009 WCOOP event with a $215 buy-in.
What’s more, the site is running a Satellite Challenge to see who can notch up the most number of satellite wins during the promotion.
Visit the PokerStars site for all the scheduling and details, but hurry. The first deal of the 2009 WCOOP comes on September 3.
TourneyMan on July 15th, 2009
Recently we told you that the schedule for the upcoming 2009 PokerStars WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker). What we didn’t tell you was that, around the same time as PokerStars released the 2009 WCOOP schedule, fellow leading poker site FullTilt Poker released its scheduled for the next Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XIII) and its lower-stakes sister-series, the Mini-FTOPS. Why bring that up here?
Because unlike last time, when the two FTOPS events ran concurrently, this time they run on separate days. Thankfully the FTOPS’s schedule doesnt interfere with the one for the WCOOP, but the one for the Mini-FTOPS sure does.
In fact, the schedule of the Mini-FTOPS XIII (September 9-20) overlap entirely with the 2009 PokerStars WCOOP (September 3-20)! Even the September 20 Main Events overlap, with the Mini-FTOPS $500,000 Main Event beginning at 5 pm ET and the WCOOP $10,000,000 Main Event beginning at 6:30.
To find out which other events overlap at the same times too, check the individual schedules.
TourneyMan on July 6th, 2009
PokerStars has released the schedule for the latest installment of its annual World Championship of Online Poker. The 2009 WCOOP will commence on September 3. The number of poker tournament events comprising the series has jumped from last year’s 33 to 45 this year, with events not only in Holdem but in Omaha, Stud, Razz, HORSE, 2-7 Triple Draw, and Badugi.
The 2009 WCOOP Main Event, of course, will be in No Limit Holdem, a $5,200 two-day event with a whopping $10 million guaranteed prize pool. Satellite qualifers for free entry into this event are running now at PokerStars.
More than a dozen of the events in the 2009 WCOOP boast prize pools of over $1 million, including:
- Event #1: September 3, $215 six-max No Limit Holdem for $1.25 million guaranteed
- Event #10: September 6, $10,300 No Limit Holdem High Roller for $2 million guaranteed
- Event #11: September 6, $530 No Limit Holdem two-day for $3 million guaranteed
- Event #28: September 13, $1,050 No Limit Holdem two-day for $3 million guaranteed
