The WCOOP festival of poker covers 33 different poker events - including the Main Event - all held online at PokerStars. This year’s total WCOOP prize pool of $39,958,000 - $15 million more than last year’s tournament series - continues the record-breaking tournament tradition at PokerStars, the world’s largest poker site. Players from 118 different countries participated. ‘PearlyJammer’ and ‘thedonator’ cashed ten times in the tournament series with ‘dorinvandv’ leading as the top money earner before the main event.
Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier continued his 2008 tournament and player of the year success in the WCOOP, cashing seven times and earning more than $400,000 over the two week period. He finished 21st in the main event, cashing for $22,942.50.
“The WCOOP is a great tournament to play, in preparation for upcoming tournaments like the European Poker Tour in London and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas” said ‘ElkY’, the 2008 PCA Champion. “The prize pool is huge, and with such an incredible variety of players and styles, no other online poker tournament compares to the WCOOP.”
PokerStars held two more WCOOP related tournaments on Saturday, September 27. All of the 22,873 unique players that took part in the 2008 WCOOP main events were invited to participate in a “Player Appreciation $100K Freeroll” a free to enter event. A total of 10,182 players competed for a piece of the $100,000 prize pool, with the winner ‘Mongy’, from Torquay, UK, winning the $10,000 after nearly 8 hours of play.
There have been 121 WCOOP bracelet events since 2002 and all previous winners were invited to participate in a “Tournament of Champions” freeroll, which awarded a 2009 PCA prize package to play live in the Bahamas next January, to the winner. 70 champions participated in the “8-Game Mix” event, a true test of all-around poker skills, with player ‘genoa_st’ besting the field. ‘genoa_st’ earnt his champion status by winning the $215 No-Limit Hold’em event in the 2005 WCOOP.
For further details on the WCOOP and other PokerStars online tournaments, players should visit www.PokerStars.net
About PokerStars:
PokerStars is the world's largest online poker room (with 15 million players worldwide) and also the #1 poker tournament site. As the premier destination for the top players - with over 100,000 tournaments running every day-PokerStars is renowned for offering the best software and security in the online poker world.
PokerStars:
- Has dealt over 20 billion hands
- Has run more than 100 million poker tournaments
- Entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first and only poker website to reach the 160,000 simultaneous players mark
PokerStars is the official sponsor of: The European Poker Tour (www.ept.com), PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (www.appt.com) and The World Cup of Poker.
PokerStars is the home of Team PokerStars Pro, a group of 30 veteran and up-and-coming players from around the world who play online at PokerStars and are sponsored by the site in international tournaments around the world. For more information please visit www.PokerStars.net.
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