2022 WCOOP Main Event The 2022 editions of the World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event shuffles up and deals at PokerStars at 5:30 p.m. BST on September 25 and crowns its champion four days later on September 28. The last player standing will become the 21st winner of online poker’s most prestigious annual tournament, and will join a long list of PokerStars players in the online poker giant’s history books.
You have to go back to 2002 to find the inaugural WCOOP Main Event, which is the same year PokerNews launched. At this time, the European Poker Tour was still two years away, and only a single World Poker Tour event had taken place.
The first-ever WCOOP Main Event was a $1,050 buy-in tournament, which was a buy-in unheard of at the time. It attracted 238 entrants, Sweden’s “MultiMarine” came out on top and collected $65,450. The WCOOP and its Main Event captured the imagination of the poker community, and its popularity exploded. Some 891 players turned out for the 2003 edition, resulting in a first-place prize of $222,750 for Joseph “DeOhGee” Cordi . PokerStars increased the buy-in to $2,600 between 2004-2007, and the champions secured massive payouts. Edgar “Radge” Skjervold ($424,945), Jordan “Panella86” Berkowitz ($577,342), and the legendary JC “area23JC” Tran ($670,194) benefited from the larger prize pool, but it was Kyle “ka$ino1” Schroeder that bagged the first seven-figure WCOOP Main Event first place prize, a cool $1,378,330.
Schroder’s win was shrouded in controversy. “TheV0id” appeared to have won the 2007 WCOOP Main Event. However, PokerStars determined it was not Natalie Teltscher in control of the account, and awarded the victory and $1,378,330 to Kyle “ka$ino1” Schroeder. Teltscher launched legal proceedings against PokerStars, but later dropped her case .
It was a similar story in 2018, when Dutch player “wann2play” was disqualified and Ezequiel “eze88888” Waigel promoted from second-place to champion, an accolade that came with $1,529,502.
Those two controversial tournaments aside, the WCOOP Main Event is seen as the piece de resistance of the online poker world. “CrazyLissy” is the reigning champion , having topped a 1,965-strong field in 2021 […]
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