by Scott Huff
The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), the largest online poker tournament in the world, is coming back to Poker Stars, this time with a main event guarantee of $2.5 million.
The two week long tournament featuring Hold'em, Omaha, and Stud events, begins September 4
th, 2005 at 4:30 p.m. EST. Event #1 is a $500 + $30 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $800,000. To date, 544 players are already registered for the event with over two weeks still to go before kick-off.
The level of prestige for winning a WCOOP continues to rise along with the number of entrants in the fields. The total number of entries for last year's 12 day long tournament was 10,085, second only in scope to the 2004
World Series of Poker (WSOP) which drew 13,036. Similar to the WSOP, winners of WCOOP events receive engraved gold bracelets along with their big prize money.
It is 33 days and counting to the 2005 WCOOP Main Event. Last year's Main Event drew a field of 843, and a prize pool of $2.1 million. A player known as "Ragde" from Oslo, Norway took home the $424,945 first prize, and the gold bracelet.
Poker Stars offers a variety of sitngo, and multi table satellites for WCOOP events ranging from frequent player points freerolls to $130
.
