Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
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"The 2011 WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) has kicked off on Pokerstars. The first day of the 2011 WCOOP featured a total of three events, and all three events ended up easily surpassing their guarantees.
The WCOOP event #1, which was a $215 NL Hold'em (6-Max) tournament, ended up with a total of 7,500 entrants. The total prize pool was $1,500,000, which easily surpassed the $1 million guarantee.
Event #1 is currently paused and will resume tonight with the last 37 players. The most notable player left is Liv Boeree, she is currently in 32nd place with 596.697 in chips.
The second WCOOP event, which was the $10,300 NL Hold'em High Roller tournament, ended up attracting 200 players. This created a total prize pool of $2 million, which easily bested the guarantee of $1.25 million.
The tournament attracted many big names, like Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, and it was eventually "DYBYDX" from United Kingdom who took down the title and $430.000.
The third event, which was a $215 NLHE tournament, ended up with a total of 10,107 entrants. The event had a guaranteed prize pool of $1.25 million and the total prize pool ended up being just over $2M.
Event #3 is also currently paused and will resume tonight with the last 69 players.
Judging by the first events, the WCOOP will be a success also this year, despite the fact that American players are no longer able to play on Pokerstars."
Joined: Mar '11
Location: Croatia
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 1738
Man this do look like some nice prizes, and lots of people entering the tournies too. definitively too high stakes for someone like me thou... maybe next year winning some step free-rolls ... can only dream entering a tournament with a $2M prize pool
Joined: Nov '10
Location: Serbia
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 2087
Posted by BeMyATMplz: I'll play $109 Event 19 on saturday,gonna be fun Not feeling that well with those deep stacks tho,I prefer crapshot structures
Thats nice! You should make a tread before it begin so we could know and rail you! I will came and say hi thats for sure! Still remember when few guys came to say hi when I played 220$ tourney. I was only one with supporters and I felt very good about it
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Germany
Age: 31 (M)
Posts: 1859
I'll just bump this thread up as reminder Basicly freerolling it,saved my FPPs up for a bit and won a FPP sat after,not sure if I'm gonna sell like 50% in shares to get guaranteed value off my FPPs,guess I'll see about it
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
very big prizepools but a bit too high for my bankroll, so i def wont be playing them. congrats on winning the satellite ATM , gl in the main event. hope you cash big in that one.
Joined: Nov '09
Location: Canada
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 2387
Unlike Full Tilt, Pokerstars seems to have come through this whole Black Friday thing okay and ready to continue offering poker games. I think it is important for online poker as a whole for Pokerstars, as the flagship site for online poker, to survive and prosper and demonstrate that there is a big interest in the game, and not to regulate it to death. I still think governments can get their slice without killing it.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
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The thing is mahdrof that Pokerstars had an extra boost from what happened to FT. They managed to come out of BF and then they got most of FT's players so that was a huge advantage.
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
More results:
"Already six WCOOP bracelets have been awarded on PokerStars, and there are still 56 events to go. The recent WCOOP titles went to players such as Jonathan "MONSTER_DONG" Karamalikis and "K_0_S_T_Y_A".
Karamalikis won the WCOOP Event #6, $215+Rebuys Turbo No-Limit Hold'em. A total of 1.589 players participated in the tournament, and Karamalikis earned $179,569.13 for his win.
The Russian high stakes online cash game player, "K_0_S_T_Y_A", instead won the WCOOP Event #3 ($215 No-Limit Hold'em). The tournament attracted a total of 10.107 players and the title was worth $288,660.78 to "K_0_S_T_Y_A".
Below you can see the results for the first six WCOOP Events:
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Germany
Age: 31 (M)
Posts: 1859
Not gonna play afterall,it'll just run way too long. The $109 event was once listed with 10 min levels but got changed to 20 minutes without me noticing. Regs on 2+2 estimate the tourney will run 20-21 hours this way,so unless they make it a 2-day-event or change back to 10 min levels I'm not playing,just won't be able to play properly for this long
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
Posted by BeMyATMplz: Regs on 2+2 estimate the tourney will run 20-21 hours this way,so unless they make it a 2-day-event or change back to 10 min levels I'm not playing,just won't be able to play properly for this long
20-21 hours is way too long, how are ppl supposed to do that? maybe they'll decrease the stack size
Joined: Dec '09
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 42 (M)
Posts: 2087
Posted by BeMyATMplz: Not gonna play afterall,it'll just run way too long. The $109 event was once listed with 10 min levels but got changed to 20 minutes without me noticing. Regs on 2+2 estimate the tourney will run 20-21 hours this way,so unless they make it a 2-day-event or change back to 10 min levels I'm not playing,just won't be able to play properly for this long
think most of the wcoops are 2 day events are they not? i could very well be wrong not been on stars much at all
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 2219
I dont have enough money at PokerStars in the moment to play the WCOOP. But they offer a lot Freerolls and the best is the German WCOOP Radio Show with Nathalie Hof. You can win a lot of prizes in the radio show (tourney , step tickets etc).
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, the old FPPs can be good for that
, step tickets etc).
