WCOOP ready to kick off

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Date: September 05, 2008
By: Marylou

The Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) starts today, with a 33-event program that features 9 new events and a guaranteed prize pool of $30,000,000.

The 33 events have buy-ins ranging from $200+15 to $25,000+500 in all possible poker variants – along with plenty of Hold’em events there are also 5-card draw, PL Omaha, 7-card Stud, Razz and mixed events including HORSE.

All prize pools are guaranteed, and they range from $10,000 to a whopping $10,000,000 for the NL Hold’em Main Event; seven events have guaranteed prize pools of $1,000,000 or more.

PokerStars offers a wide array of daily satellites into various WCOOP events for those players who do not feel ready to fork out the buy-in money. Either way, the WCOOP is a very attractive online event for those looking to build up their online bankrolls – last year’s Main Event winner Ka$ino bagged a respectable $1,378,330 , and this year looks set to improve on that sum.

Below is a summary of the events with their buy in and guaranteed prize pool.

1	5-Sep	$215	NL Hold'em [6-max]	$1,000,000
2	5-Sep	$215	PL 5-Card Draw	$100,000
3	6-Sep	$215	Limit Hold'em	$300,000
4	6-Sep	$215	2-7 Triple Draw	$100,000
5	7-Sep	$10,300	High-Roller NL Hold'em	$2,000,000
6	7-Sep	$530	NL Hold'em*	$3,000,000
7	8-Sep	$215	PL Omaha [6-max]	$300,000
8	8-Sep	$320	8-game Mixed Event	$200,000
9	9-Sep	$215	NL Hold'em [4-max]	$400,000
10	9-Sep	$215	Razz	$100,000
11	10-Sep	$320	PL Omaha Hi/Lo	$300,000
12	10-Sep	$320	Mixed Hold'em [6-max]	$300,000
13	11-Sep	$215	NL Hold'em w/Rebuys	$1,000,000
14	11-Sep	$320	7-Card Stud	$100,000
15	12-Sep	$320	NL Hold'em [Heads-Up]	$500,000
16	12-Sep	$215	PL Omaha [1R1A]	$300,000
17	13-Sep	$530	PL Hold'em [6-max]	$400,000
18	13-Sep	$215	HORSE	$300,000
19	14-Sep	$25,500	High-Roller HU NL Hold'em	$1,600,000
20	14-Sep	$1,050	NL Hold'em*	$3,000,000
21	15-Sep	$530	7-Card Stud Hi/Lo	$200,000
22	15-Sep	$530	Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo [6-max]	$200,000
23	16-Sep	$530	NL Hold'em [1R1A]	$500,000
24	16-Sep	$530	NL 2-7 Single Draw	$200,000
25	17-Sep	$320	PL Omaha w/rebuys	$500,000
26	17-Sep	$320	NL Hold'em [6-max]	$500,000
27	18-Sep	$530	NL Hold'em Triple Shootout	$300,000
28	18-Sep	$530	Limit Omaha Hi/Lo	$400,000
29	19-Sep	$530	NLHE w/Rebuys [6-max]	$400,000
30	19-Sep	$1,050	PL Omaha	$500,000
31	20-Sep	$1,050	Limit Hold'em [6-max]	$500,000
32	20-Sep	$10,300	HORSE	$500,000
33	21-Sep	$5,200	NL Hold'em Main Event*	$10,000,000

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