PokerStars 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Sept. 6-27: Biggest Ever!

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PokerStars has announced the 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Running from September 6-27, this year's WCOOP will be the biggest ever with a schedule of 70 events, along with the largest online buy-in ever: the $51,000 Super High Roller with a guaranteed prize pool of $45 million (that's a $5 million increase over last year). The highlight of this year's WCOOP will be the $10 million guaranteed Main Event, set to run on September 27 at 14:30 ET.

Wcoop schedule released containing 40m in guarantees

WCOOP 2015 SCHEDULE

pokerstars has added four new events this year for a record-breaking 70 different tournaments over the course of the series. For the first time ever there will also be 15 "Championship" events with bigger buy-ins that will incorporate Hold'em, Omaha, Stud, and Draw games of different variations, which will be sure to test the skills of some of the best online poker players in the world.

Also new to the series are three 3-Day events:

  • WCOOP-26: $700 NL Hold’em, $1.5M GTD
  • WCOOP-48: $2,100 NL Hold’em, $2M GTD
  • WCOOP-69: $5,200 NL Hold’em Main Event, $10M GTD

Other series highlights include:
  • WCOOP-3: $10,300 NL Hold’em [Heads-Up, High Roller] – $300k GTD
  • WCOOP-9: $1,050 NL Hold’em [Super Tuesday SE] – $1m GTD
  • WCOOP-16: $1,050 NL Hold’em [Progressive Super-Knockout – $1m GTD
  • WCOOP-19: $320 NL Hold’em [Turbo, Zoom] – $400k GTD
  • WCOOP-25: $10,300 NL Hold’em [8-Max, High Roller] – $2m GTD
  • WCOOP-37: $320 8-Game – $100k GTD
  • WCOOP-52: $530 PL Omaha [6-Max, 3-Stack] – $100k GTD
  • WCOOP-64: $700 PL Omaha [Heads-Up] – $150k GTD
  • WCOOP-69: $5,200 NL Hold’em Main Event, $10M GTD
  • WCOOP-70: $1,050 NL Hold’em Wrap-Up [Turbo] – $1m GTD

For a full tournament schedule, go to http://psta.rs/1JK20DG.

Satellite Qualifiers

Online satellites to WCOOP events are now underway. Cash qualifiers are available for as little as $1 in a variety of formats including MTTs, SNGs, and Steps tournaments. Players can buy into the $5200 Main Event Mega Path satellites starting at 1 FPP.

Players can find the current crop of qualifiers by logging on to PokerStars and clicking ‘Online Events’ > ‘WCOOP’ > ‘All’.

Player of the Year

Additional prizes are awarded to the most consistent performers throughout the series. The overall "Player of the Year" wins a Champion's Trophy, $20,000 cash, and a 2016 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) Main Event Ticket. Second to fifth places on the Leader Board receive cash prizes ranging from $10,000 to $2,500 plus 2016 TCOOP Main Event tickets, while sixth to tenth-place players are rewarded with 2016 TCOOP Main Event tickets. In total an extra $53,000 worth of added prizes will be awarded to the top 10 players.

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I will try to qualify through satellites. Maybe I'm feeling lucky :D
 
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51k buy`in ,so much money ,lol
I wonder if there will be enough people to make the guaranteed $45 million prize pool heh. As for me, I'll try to win a satellite to one of the lower tournaments.
 
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I wonder if there will be enough people to make the guaranteed $45 million prize pool heh. As for me, I'll try to win a satellite to one of the lower tournaments.

For the 51k buy`in is 1M gtd prize pool,not 45M , so it need only 20 players to make the 1M $ :D
 
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I wonder if there will be enough people to make the guaranteed $45 million prize pool heh. As for me, I'll try to win a satellite to one of the lower tournaments.

Sure they will get even more than 50$ Millions , the WCOOP are the best series of online poker, so it' will be another success for pokerstars, i will try to qsualify for an event, may be i will pick a little part of that prizepool :)
 
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