PokerStars.com's WCOOP kicks off with a bangMore records are expected to be broken this year |
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PokerStars.com's World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) began Sunday afternoon with a record-breaking number of participants that drove the top prize in the $500 No-Limit event to an astounding $306,200.
Snow Leopard, from Downey, Ca., outlasted 3,062 competitors to take first place after more than 13 hours of play. That means the folks on the east coast who made it to the final table had to stay up until almost 6 a.m.
Toprose took second in the event and earned $183,720. The other final table payouts are as follows: mrrain won $114,825 for third, fixed set won $88,798 for fourth, bibb won $53,585 for fifth, ziggy47 won $53,585 for sixth, MrSuperlove won $39,806 for seventh, bobcubed, who was chip leader as the field was whittled from 200 to 100, won $27,558 for eighth, and majic1111 won $16,534 for ninth.
Players finishing tenth though eighthtenth won a whopping $10,410 as part of the $1,531,000 given away to the top 324 players.
The $500 No-Limit event was just the first of 15 events that will take place in the next two weeks at PokerStars.com. The grand finale of the WCOOP is the $2,500 No-Limit championship that has a prize pool of $2.5 million guaranteed.
If event #1 gives any indication, the $2.5 million will surely be left in the dust as players from all over the world are using PokerStar.com's busy satellite schedule to win their way into the big event.
The WCOOP is unique in that is contains events not always associated with poker tournament championships.
For example, today (Tuesday, Sept. 6) the $200 No-Limit Holdem Match Play with a guaranteed prize of $200,000 will take place. On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the $1,000 No-Limit Holdem Triple Shootout event with a guaranteed prize pool of $700,000 will take place and on Thursday, Sept. 15, the $500 Seven Card Stud High/Low event with a guaranteed prize pool of $150,000 will take place.
But most of the events are centered around Holdem with buy-ins varying from $200 to $2,500 for the final event.
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