Poker Stars WCOOP Preview
WCOOP the largest online poker tournament series announced at the Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) will start this month. The event begins on Saturday 16.09 and ends on Sunday 01.10.06. Last year poker stars organized under the WCOOP 15 tournaments with prize money totalling $ 8,000,000. Top 5 anniversary in 2006, under the WCOOP 18 events held, the prize money this year is incredible $ 10,000,000!
This online tournament series was as an online equivalent of the WSOP designed and usually starts one month after termination of the WSOP - so this year is no exception dar. The winners of each WCOOP events will receive cash prizes in addition to a gold championship bracelet, which is much the WSOP Bracelets similar.
This year, as a complement to the normal WCOOP events of poker stars additional Razz and two HORSE (Holdem, Omaha , Razz, Stud and Eight or better (Stud Hi / Lo)) tournaments. One of the HORSE tournaments, a $ 5200 buy-in event, with the well-known stars poker player Barry Greenstein as the host.
As the tournaments mainly by medium to high buy-in’s distinction Poker Stars has a heart for all players with not so large bankroll and is shown for 1.5 million U.S. dollars buy-in WCOOP free seats available, to participate in the VIP Players Club or by Frequent Player Points Freerolls will be awarded. In addition to the free seats, there is the possibility of using on-line to qualify satellite, the satellite will be offered every day and the lowest buy-in is $ 3. It offers poker stars all players with smaller bank roll, which is not directly in the main shopping event, the possibility to be cost-effective for this fantastic event to qualify.
WCOPP This will be the largest of all previous Poker Stars World Championships of Online Poker. This online tournament, since the beginning of the tournament series in 2002, year after year continuously grown, not only in the ever-increasing Poker recognizable, but also the amount of prize money. In 2002, the winner of the main events just $ 65,450 to take home. The Popolarität steadily rising and the prize pool is larger and larger - in the last year, the winner of the main event prize money amounting to $ 577342 and it is expected that the prize money this year still will be considerably higher. Also, pack it in and make sure that it is still not too late to get your seat in this year to secure WCOOP
Below is the full tournament schedule for this year WCOOP