Time To Get Excited About WCOOP

The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is the largest tournament series held online and it starts one month from today. But you can qualify for you favourite events in satellites running today.

In 2006, PokerStars hosted 18 events and guaranteed $10,000,000, eventually awarding over $18,500,000 in prizes!

This year it is even bigger with 23 events and an incredible $15 million guaranteed which means the prize money awarded should comfortably exceed 20 million bucks.

If you love online poker as much as Poker Verdict does you have to get involved in this year's WCOOP. Download the PokerStars software here to start playing the many satellites happening today.

Each year, the prizes get bigger. In 2002, MultiMarine of Sweden won $65,450 in the main championship event. In 2003, DeOhGee won $222,750 in the main event. In 2004, Ragde won $424,945 in the big one. In 2005, Panella86 won the championship event and took home $577,342. Last year, none other than pro player J.C. Tran won the WCOOP main event bracelet, beating a field of 2,510 players and pocketing more than $600,000! How big will the prize pool get to this year? As a huge $5 million is guaranteed in the main event this year the figure is going to be enormous.

This year, the events are bigger, and once again PokerStars is hosting more than the year before. The NLHE Triple Shootout (last held in WCOOP 2005) returns and two new games, 5-Card Draw and 2-7 Triple Draw, make their way onto the schedule.

WCOOP 2007 boasts 23 events with a combined guaranteed prize pool of $15,000,000. The following is a schedule of the events with the date, starting time (EST), game type, buy-in and guarantee.

1 - Sep 14 - 15:00 - NL Hold'em [6-max] - $215 - $400k
2 - Sep 14 - 16:30 - PL 5-Card Draw - $215 - $100k
3 - Sep 15 - 15:00 - PL Omaha [6-max] - $215 - $200k
4 - Sep 15 - 16:30 - 2-7 Triple Draw - $215 - $100k
5 - Sep 16 - 16:30 - NL Hold'em - $530 - $2 million
6 - Sep 17 - 15:00 - PL Omaha w/Rebuys - $320 - $400k
7 - Sep 18 - 15:00 - Limit Hold'em - $215 - $100k
8 - Sep 19 - 15:00 - Limit Omaha H/L - $530 - $300k
9 - Sep 20 - 15:00 - NLH w/Rebuys - $215 - $1 million
10 - Sep 21 - 15:00 - NLH Match Play - $320 - $500k
11 - Sep 21 - 16:30 - Razz - $215 - $100k
12 - Sep 22 - 15:00 - HORSE - $215 - $200k
13 - Sep 22 - 16:30 - PLH - $530 - $400k
14 - Sep 23 - 16:30 - NLH - $1,050 - $2 million
15 - Sep 24 - 15:00 - 7 Card Stud - $320 - $100k
16 - Sep 25 - 15:00 - PL Omaha H/L - $320 - $200k
17 - Sep 26 - 15:00 - NLH [6-max] - $320 - $400k
18 - Sep 27 - 15:00 - 7 Card Stud H/L - $530 - $200k
19 - Sep 28 - 15:00 - PL Omaha - $530 - $300k
20 - Sep 28 - 16:30 - NLH Triple Shootout - $530 - $200k
21 - Sep 29 - 15:00 - HORSE - $5,200 - $500k
22 - Sep 29 - 16:30 - Limit Hold'em - $1,050 - $200k
23 - Sep 30 - 16:30 - NLH Main Event - $2,600 - $5 million