A look inside the WCOOP’s at
PokerStars.com (Part 1)
September 20, 2006
In this three part informative online poker
article we will take a look inside
PokerStars.com’s World Championships of
Online Poker (WCOOP). With an astounding
cash prize pool that has collectively gone
well over the guaranteed prize of $10
million with only four tourneys left to go,
there is plenty of online poker action
involved and you should know what’s going
on. This article will detail what we
understand about these great tourneys and
the great online poker room that is hosting
the wild action on the Internet
The action that these poker events has put
the online poker room on a course that is
set to award nearly $20 million in total to
many online poker players all over the
world.
So far, almost 24, 000 online poker players
have played to win in the series of online
poker tournaments so far. This clearly makes
the online poker events to be the biggest
and best online poker tourney series ever.
The online poker series has additionally
seen its first repeat winners. Spawng,
a 2005 WCOOP bracelet winner, won the 2006
No Limit Hold'em Match Play Event 4, while
kwob20 was the winner from 2
different events this year as well, nabbing
online poker winning titles in Omaha HighLow
and 7 Card Stud High Low online poker
tourneys at PokerStars.com.
With only four events remaining, including
the $3 million guaranteed Main Event, this
series has obviously gained the action of
most online poker players become the leader
of online poker tournament events. This
series at PokerStars.com is not only
unparallel to any online poker room other
than itself, but it is comparable to the
world's largest live or on land poker
events.
The WCOOP grows in number each and every
year. Just a couple of years ago the WCOOP
was the 4th largest poker
tournament overall in the world. This means
it is just behind the following 3 world
poker events: The World Series of Poker,
World Poker Open, and the LA Poker Classic.
This online event is near to becoming the 2nd
largest when it comes to the amount of poker
players involved along with the prize money
that generates.
The goal (and it’s looking pretty
obtainable) is to generate enough action
this year’s WCOOP to only be second to the
WSOP itself. We will be watching to see
what actually happens with that for sure.
One truly exceptional part of the WCOOP and
other major online tournaments is the
ability to make final table deals. You will
see that in major land based events like the
WSOP and the WPT where poker players will
play until the end, receiving their cash
totals based only on how they actually end
up. At the WCOOP, online poker players are
allowed to make deals for the final table
prize pool with a stipulation that ten to
twenty thousand dollars be left on the poker
felt for the winner. This year, just about
all of the final tables have has seen a
deal, with one event evenly splitting the
pot 6 different ways.
Continued - Be sure to keep reading on this
online poker topic. You can find the other
two parts to this compelling look at online
poker tourneys from PokerStars.com from our
main poker article page where you found this
one or click the two following links:
part 2
then part 3.
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