WCOOP, the World’s Preeminent Online Poker Series, Turns 21 – PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) which has awarded more than $1 billion in prizes over two decades, will run from Sept 4th – 28th. The modern online poker schedule is littered with festivals and online series throughout the year, but a few series every year stand above the rest. Pokerstars ‘ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is one of those series, with a 20-year prize pool total that tops $1 billion .
With two decades of history, the WCOOP has become one of the preeminent tournament series on the online poker calendar every year. Along with its cousin, the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) , the COOP franchise is some of the best-attended and most-anticipated online events of the year.
Once again, the WCOOP is back on PokerStars’ schedule, with action beginning in early Sept of 2022 and running through most of the month. While there are currently no details on the full program, there are a few things we know to expect from this year’s series.
Last year, PokerStars celebrated its 20th anniversary with a colossal WCOOP that guaranteed $100 million. At the same time, numerous factors point to the fact that the 21st edition of WCOOP will be significantly smaller than the anniversary edition pokerfuse still predicts that there will be at least $80 million on offer across the series. Not regulated or for use in Ontario More than $1 Billion Awarded in WCOOP History
The 2021 anniversary edition of the WCOOP marked the biggest WCOOP ever for PokerStars, and the second time the WCOOP collected more than $100 million in prizes across the series. The operator hit that mark in 2019 with almost $105 million in prizes and barely missed it in 2020 with nearly $99.8 million in total pots.
By the time the dust settled on the 2021 series, PokerStars had hit an astonishing milestone — more than $1 billion awarded in the history of WCOOP events . Yes, that is a billion with a B , as the $122,340,165 anniversary prize pool pushed the […]
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