PokerStars WCOOP Looming Ever Closer
Posted on August 4, 2008
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As the month of July has come to a close, we inch ever closer to September, when PokerStar.net will host its amazingly lucrative World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) 2008. That means there’s only about one month remaining to qualify for a seat in the 2008 WCOOP, guaranteeing a minimum of $30 million throughout the series – double the GP of last year’s WCOOP.
Starting September 5th, PokerStars.com will be hosting 33 events in the 2008 WCOOP, swathed in every poker variant PokerStars offers - Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Razz, H.O.R.S.E., Triple Draw and others. Prize pools for early events vary, rising in excess of $2 million, leading up to the 2-day WCOOP Main Event on September 21st, worth a whopping $10,000,000 Guaranteed.
PokerStars began offering Multi-table and Sit’n’Go Satellites as well as Steps Qualifiers in early July. These tournaments, awarding seats in the $30 Million 2008 WCOOP, are still running daily at PokerStars with extremely cost effective entries. Cash qualifiers start as low as $2.20 while FPP satellites start at 100 points.
The WCOOP, which start back in 2002, has seen PokerStars continuously raising the bar with each year’s online poker series. In its first season, the WCOOP Main Event winner “MultiMarine” took home $65,450. The 2003 WCOOP Main Event went to “DeOhGee” winning more than triple the top prize from the previous year, $222,750. That nearly doubled again when “Radge” took down the 2004 WCOOP for $424,945. In 2005, more than half a million ($577,342) went to “Panella86”. Poker pro J.C. Tran took the top prize of $600,000 in the 2006 WCOOP, while “Ka$ino” broke the mold in 2007, earning an outstanding $1,378,330.
For those interested in taking part in the PokerStars 2008 WCOOP, visit www.PokerStars.com for further details and Satellite/Qualifier schedules. Even you don’t manage to win a seat in the 2008 WCOOP, a sizeable wallet of $5,200 will cover direct buy-in.
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