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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! :eek:

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 :D .
 
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I think the prize pool is 10 mill btw and not the first prize :D .[/quote said:
Yup, thats what I said: 10,000,000 prize pool. First is still 35% of the total 10mil though, making it a fairly juicy 3.5 million dollars for first spot.
 
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I will be playing in th $109 and afew 216$ and prob the $216 razz
 
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Yup, thats what I said: 10,000,000 prize pool. First is still 35% of the total 10mil though, making it a fairly juicy 3.5 million dollars for first spot.

Yeah mate all good just the comment about the wsop lol, and if anyone needs a rail sections post here :rolleyes:
 
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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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I will be trying to satty/step my way in. Played the $530 buyin last year.

Good luck to all who try.
 
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I will be trying to satty/step my way in. Played the $530 buyin last year.

Good luck to all who try.

How did you do?

How was it compared to the average donkament?
 
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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 stars 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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didnt 3rd place last year get in off a 2$ sat?
 
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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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players who enter deffo make a new thread in the BBV or rail be interesting to see how you do guys.
 
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Hi bro ... yep, I made Sept 6th and Sept 7th games thru freerolls ... However, I did 'UNREGISTER' to collect the AU$500+ DOLLARS. Good luck to you ... if I can buy in again before these dates, I will. Sweet!
 
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Very nice series...
High rollerz party time...
 
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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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Wish the buyins werent so high I would play in all of them
 
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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.

Thanks for the heads up Dakota sounds like thats worth a few tries.
 
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I played my 4th one today and only won a step 1 ticket - but that means I get to try again for free. But it was close - I finished 50th and top 40 get the step 2.
 
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Theres a freeroll to a final that looks good, i'm on one now, unsure how many there will be. 25th out of 300 and looking good, final table ftw.
 
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Aces put me in fourth woo, thank god for those who call a re-raise with 77 =)
 
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Definately going to play the plo8 event, don't know about any of the others, probably not
 
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prolly gonna play whatever's in the $109-$250 range haven't looked at the schedule though
 
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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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I'll try one of the 7.50 extreme satellites to get into the $109 8-game as that is possibly the easiest way to get my hands on a WCOOP bracelet.
 
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If you win a tournament do they actually send you a Bracelet? that would be unreal.
 
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