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PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Starts Next Week

$30 Million in Combined Prize Pools is Guaranteed

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The Olympics is the world’s stage for the ultimate display of athletic talent, and the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) could be considered the equivalent for online poker players. While the Chinese gymnasts flipped on the floor exercise to claim victory, poker players may have to coin-flip for theirs. The 2008 WCOOP is where poker players can showcase their talents on a global stage, all while competing for hundreds of thousands of dollars and online poker’s most prestigious titles. Promising to turn out the biggest prize pools online poker has ever seen, the WCOOP is just around the corner, beginning next week.

The series starts Friday, Sept. 5 with the first of 33 events. The kick-off tournament is a $215 buy-in six-handed no-limit hold’em event that begins at 1:30 p.m. ET. It features a staggering $1 million-guaranteed prize pool. There are seven events with guarantees of $1 million or more this year, and the combined guaranteed prize pool money over the entire series is $30 million, twice that of last year’s WCOOP. Ten new events are being introduced this year, including a high-roller no-limit hold’em event tournament with a buy-in of $10,300 and a $25,500 buy-in high-roller heads-up tournament.

Vanessa RoussoThe main event is a $5,200 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament and is slated for Sept. 21 at 4:30 p.m. ET. The two-day event has a $10 million-guaranteed prize pool. Last year, the WCOOP hosted “only” 23 events. The main event guaranteed a “mere” $5 million. Slightly fewer than 3,000 entrants took part in the 2007 championship tournament, which lasted almost 24 hours. The winner was TheV0id, who was later disqualified after investigation proved that the player used multiple accounts during the tournament. All players who cashed moved up one money spot, and second-place finisher ka$ino ultimately nabbed the first-place money of nearly $1.4 million. Team PokerStars pro Vanessa “LadyMaverick” Rousso was bumped into a second-place finish, earning her more than $700,000 for her biggest poker cash to date, online or otherwise.

The following is the full WCOOP schedule:

Date/Time (ET) Buy-In*
Event Guarantee
Fri, Sept. 5, 14:30 $215 No-limit hold'em (six-max) $1 million
Fri, Sept. 5, 16:30 $215 Pot-limit five-card draw $100,000
Sat, Sept. 6, 14:30 $215 Limit hold'em $300,000
Sat, Sept. 6, 16:30 $215 Deuce-to-seven triple-draw $100,000
Sun, Sept. 7, 14:30 $10,300 High-roller no-limit hold'em $2 million
Sun, Sept. 7, 16:30 $530 No-limit hold'em** $3 million
Mon, Sept. 8, 14:30 $215 Pot-limit Omaha (six-max) $300,000
Mon, Sept. 8, 16:30 $320 Eight-game mixed event $200,000
Tue, Sept. 9, 14:30 $215 No-limit hold'em $400,000
Tue, Sept. 9, 16:30 $215 Razz $100,000
Wed, Sept. 10, 14:30 $320 Pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better $300,000
Wed, Sept. 10, 16:30 $320 Mixed hold'em (six-max) $300,000
Thu, Sept. 11, 14:30 $215 No-limit hold'em $1 million
Thu, Sept. 11, 16:30 $320 Seven-card stud $100,000
Fri, Sept. 12, 14:30 $320 No-limt hold'em (heads up) $500,000
Fri, Sept. 12, 16:30 $215 Pot-limit Omaha (one rebuy, one add-on) $300,000
Sat, Sept. 13, 14:30 $530 Pot-limit hold'em (six-max) $400,000
Sat, Sept. 13, 16:30 $215 H.O.R.S.E. $300,000
Sun, Sept. 14, 14:30 $25,000 High-roller heads-up no-limit hold'em $1.6 million
Sun, Sept. 14, 16:30 $1,050 No-limit hold'em** $3 million
Mon, Sept.15, 14:30 $530 Seven-card stud eight-or-better $200,000
Mon, Sept. 15, 16:30 $530 Mixed Omaha eight-or-better $200,000
Tue, Sept. 16, 14:30 $530 No-limit hold'em (one rebuy, one add-on) $500,000
Tue, Sept. 16, 16:30 $530 Deuce-to-seven single-draw $200,000
Wed, Sept. 17, 14:30 $320 Pot-limit Omaha with rebuys $500,000
Wed, Sept. 17, 16:30 $320 No-limit hold'em (six-max) $500,000
Thu, Sept. 18, 14:30 $530 No-limit hold'em triple shootout $300,000
Thu, Sept. 18, 16:30 $530 Limit Omaha eight-or-better $400,000
Fri, Sept. 19, 14:30 $530 No-limt hold'em with rebuys (six-max) $400,000
Fri, Sept. 19, 16:30 $1,050 Pot-limit Omaha $500,000
Sat, Sept. 20, 14:30 $1,050 Limit hold'em (six-max) $500,000
Sat, Sept. 20, 16:30 $10,300 H.O.R.S.E. $500,000
Sun, Sept. 21, 16:30 $5,300 No-limt hold'em main event** $10 million

PokerStars is currently running satellites, and players can take advantage of a PokerStars deposit bonus from Card Player to get started.

* Buy-ins include entry fees
** Two-day event

 
 
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