| This is a discussion on Pokerstars WCOOP series within the online poker forums, in the Poker Rooms section; Anyone planning on playing in any of these World Championship of Online Poker games ? Not really looked at any of these high stakes series ... |
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| Pokerstars WCOOP series Anyone planning on playing in any of these World Championship of Online Poker games? Not really looked at any of these high stakes series before (had a go at the mini FTOPS on tilt with marginal success) but these really caught my eye. Most of the events have buy in's between $109 and $1000, but i've seen a good few satellites running around the $20 mark, think i'll have to have a go in a few of these. The main event in a couple of months time is a $10,000,000 prize pool. Thats more than the world series main event! Is that the highest paying online tourney to date? Seen them up to maybe 2 mil, this is crazy though. Doubt i'm gonna make the $10K buy-in for this one, i'll chance my arm at some of the lower ones though. Love to hear if anyone has already satty'd in or is planning a run at them. |
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| These games do look intresting and the buy-ins are well past my megre BR but I may try some super sattys see if I can get lucky. I know there are a few people who played some events last year from here and I myself watched some of the main event. I think the prize pool is 10 mill btw and not the first prize . |
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| I think, the WCOOP Main Event is a $5,200 buy-in. They are running multi-table SNGs to some of the events. Step 1 is a $7.50 180 man SNG to a step 2 $27.00 180 man SNG. The step 1 pays 40 seats to the 2nd step and 24 seats to a step 1. |
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| First-I did the steps to win my entry. Second- I was 1913 out 7351 -ITM was something like 1080(I think) Which is painful as I should have gotten there but for a stupid move.(lessons learned). As with any tourney you have your donks but not as many. It was a extra deep stack tourney so it played a little different than a regular pokerstars tourney.(more like a ring game to start) I just played my reg game which is tight/agg. If you play a decent/solid game and not scared(OMG I've never played thus high before-what do I do- type attiude) you will give yourself a chance to cash. |
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| For those who are trying to satellite in to this - I have a great tip for you. Try the Step 1 - $7.50 MTT's. These are the easiest games I have ever played lol. They start once 180 players register. The top 40 get a step 2 ticket and 41-64 get a step 1 ticket. I have played 3 and have won 3 step 2 tickets - so I am essentially buying step 2 tickets that are worth $27 for only $7.50. Now I realize that eventually I will lose one - but so far that is proving to be a hard thing to do. (The only problem so far is that they take a long time to fill up -otherwise I would be playing them non-stop lol). I plan on using some of the step 2 tickets for WCOOP satellites into $215 events. I bought into an extreme satellite for $7.50 today - and won a $109 WCOOP entry. That wasn't too difficult either - at one point I was 3rd from last and in shove or fold mode for a while. I eventually worked my way up to the top 10 from there. |
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| i mite try sat into on of the $530 ones, if not then i mite play in a $109 one. Never played in pokerstars WCOOP b4, shud b intresting. |
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| I have a couple of step 2 tickets leftover from last year. So I'm planning to enter a couple of the satellites. Mainly one tonight that has 100 seats added to the $320 buyin tournament at 9pm. Assuming of course I'm not already mad about some earlier poker blunder. If so then I'll do it another day. |
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| Man I didn't realize just how slow those WCOOP extreme satellites were. It took me a little while during the mid second hour to realize that the using up of time was what I should be doing, along with everyone else at my table to get to the top 281. So I surfed the net and never played another hand, just allowed my time to run out each time and used up the time bank. Ended up getting one of the $215 tickets, now to figure out which WCOOP event I want to enter. I still have one Step 2 ticket left over from last year so I'm thinking I'll try it once more or maybe go play a Step 2 SnG to get a Step 3 ticket and try one of the higher ones. |
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| re: Pokerstars WCOOP series Yea - once you reach a certain point if you have enough chips to get in there is no point in getting involved in any hands - except maybe to get rid of some short stacks with your premium hands. I have another step 2 ticket so will probably try for a $215 game today. You can also use them for some $320 games. |
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| Yea - it is so sad that these things don't fill up because they are so easy to beat. I can usually only play 1 a day because they don't fill up. It is usually in the early afternoon in the US. I don't know what your schedule is like but if you are typical working til 5 or 6pm check it as soon as you get home - you should be able to get in it. |
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I think McCluskey was refering to your remark about "more than the World Series Main Event" The main event was more like 80,000,000 or so (not exact, but closer) |
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| Sory guys I'm a little confused. If I win the the $27 Extreme Satellite (100 seats) Tourney, what do I qualify for??? It says you qualify for the WCOOP Extreme Satellite H $215 Winners) Tourney...but is that tournament a big cash tourney? or is it another tourney you need to win to qualify for one of the big ones? |
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