World Championship of Online Poker

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The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars.

Established in 2002 as the online equivalent of the World Series of Poker, the WCOOP tournament series is the largest of its kind on the Internet. ^{[1] [2]}

The fifteen WCOOP events in 2005 generated $12,783,900 in prize money, making it not only the biggest ever online poker event, but the third biggest poker series (live or online) in all of 2005.

Keeping with the tradition of the World Series of Poker, the WCOOP is a series of tournaments in which players compete in a variety of different poker games. The games featured are Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit Texas Hold'em, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo, Razz, Pot Limit Omaha High and Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, and HORSE. In 2007, 5 Card Draw and 2-7 Triple draw were added. The main event is No Limit Hold'em.

In addition to the cash prize, the winner of each WCOOP event receives a personally engraved 14 karat gold bracelet from PokerStars.

Contents 1 2002 Events 2 2003 Events 3 2004 Events 4 2005 Events 5 2006 Events 6 2007 Events 7 WCOOP Main Event Winners 8 WCOOP Bracelet Winners by Country 9 References 10 See also 11 External links

[edit] 2002 Events

The 2002 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of nine events with over $730,000 in combined prizes. The events, buy in and winners are listed below.

Date	Event	Winner	Prize	Entries	Prize Pool
Jul 20	$109 Limit Texas Hold'em	fingaz	$15,537.50	565	$56,600
Jul 21	$265 Pot Limit Omaha High Low	Canuk	$14,231.25	207	$51,750
Jul 22	$265 Seven Card Stud High Low	55lucky55	$14,025.00	204	$51,000
Jul 23	$320 No Limit Texas Hold'em	michigangirl	$23,677.50	287	$86,100
Jul 25	$320 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em	MIK22	$23,677.50	287	$86,100
Jul 26	$530 Limit Omaha High Low	–db-	$20,250.00	135	$67,500
Jul 27	$530 Limit Texas Hold'em	kerrdawg	$37,537.50	273	$136,500
	$109 Limit Texas Hold'em Heads Up	lennart	$7,680.00	256	$25,600
Jul 28	$1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event	MultiMarine	$65,450.00	238	$238,000

[edit] 2003 Events

The 2003 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 11 events with a total prize pool of over $2.7 Million. The events, buy in and winners are listed below.

Date	Event	Winner	Prize	Entries	Prize Pool
Aug 7	$109 No Limit Texas Hold'em Heads Up	batoelrob (Rob Hollink)	$12,800.00	512	$51,200
Aug 8	$109 Limit Texas Hold'em	C.M. Burns	$32,525.00	1,301	$130,100
Aug 9	$320 Pot Limit Omaha High Low	Lenny	$27,600.00	368	$110,400
Aug 10	$320 No Limit Texas Hold'em	Erik123 (Erik Sagström)	$101,850.00	1,358	$407,400
Aug 11	$320 Seven Card Stud	naya	$23,512.50	285	$85,500
Aug 12	$530 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em	jr50	$68,250.00	546	$273,000
Aug 13	$530 Omaha High Low	starkitty (Kristy Gazes)	$39,750.00	318	$159,000
Aug 14	$530 Seven Card Stud High Low	RatPack	$38,912.50	283	$141,500
Aug 15	$530 Pot Limit Omaha	Big Cy	$38,500.00	308	$154,000
Aug 16	$530 Limit Texas Hold'em	actiondonkey (Jim Meehan)	$78,250.00	626	$313,000
Aug 17	$1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event	DeOhGee	$222,750.00	891	$891,000

[edit] 2004 Events

The 2004 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 12 events with a total prize pool of over $6 Million. The events, buy in and winners are listed below.

Date	Event	Winner	Prize	Entries	Prize Pool
Jul 28	$320 Pot Limit Omaha High Low	AustinKearns	$47,025.00	627	$188,100
Jul 29	$215 No Limit Texas Hold'em Match Play	tobiper	$40,960.00	1,024	$204,800
Jul 30	$215 Limit Texas Hold'em	obiwon	$58,512.00	1,272	$254,400
Jul 31	$215 No Limit Texas Hold'em with rebuys	dblgutshot	$109,033.00	1,389 (771 R, 755 A)	$583,000
Aug 1	$530 No Limit Texas Hold'em	Sporto623	$68,892.88	1,642	$821,000
Aug 2	$320 Seven Card Stud	CoolHandTony	$37,875.00	505	$151,500
Aug 3	$530 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em	fabsoul	$60,230.00	728	$364,000
Aug 4	$530 Limit Omaha High Low	Raptor19	$51,300.00	513	$256,500
Aug 5	$530 Seven Card Stud High Low	LBJ1	$56,750.00	454	$227,000
Aug 6	$530 Pot Limit Omaha	joelmick	$41,986.50	487	$243,500
Aug 7	$1,050 Limit Texas Hold'em	Mandelbrot	$62,296.87	601	$601,000
Aug 8	$2,600 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event	Ragde (Edgar Skjervold)	$424,945.26	843	$2,104,500

[edit] 2005 Events

The 2005 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 15 events with a total prize pool of over $12 Million. The events, buy in and winners are listed below.

Date	Event	Winner	Prize	Entries	Prize Pool
Sep 4	$530 No Limit Texas Hold'em	Snow Leopard (Hasan Habib)	$306,200.00	3,062	$1,531,000
Sep 5	$215 Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys	MR32	$102,422.00	973 (935 R, 590 A)	$499,600
Sep 6	$215 No Limit Texas Hold'em match play	ImoneyBling	$35,720.00	1,024	$204,800
Sep 7	$215 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em short-handed	luckyfire4	$67,367.00	2,345	$469,000
Sep 8	$215 No Limit Texas Hold'em with rebuys	genoa_st	$187,166.00	2,146 (1,825 R, 1,235 A)	$1,041,200
Sep 9	$215 Limit Texas Hold'em	ActionJeff (Jeff Garza)	$50,000.00	1,781	$356,200
Sep 10	$520 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em	kwil20	$114,000.00	1,185	$592,500
Sep 11	$1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em	VikingVI	$316,638.00	1,790	$1,790,000
Sep 12	$320 Seven Card Stud	SUPERTYR	$35,733.00	622	$186,600
Sep 13	$1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em Triple Shootout	Acey-Deucy	$150,026.00	635	$700,000
Sep 14	$530 Limit Omaha High Low	musher	$81,289.00	735	$367,500
Sep 15	$530 Seven Card Stud High Low	Bunsen	$66,125.00	529	$264,500
Sep 16	$530 Pot Limit Omaha	spawng	$66,787.00	720	$360,000
Sep 17	$1,050 Limit Texas Hold'em	DietDrPoker	$139,799.00	686	$686,000
Sep 18	$2,600 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event	Panella86	$577,342.00	1,494	$3,735,000

[edit] 2006 Events

The 2006 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 18 events. The schedule including buy in for each event is listed below. 2006 WCOOP Total Prize Pool: $18,674,300 ^[3]

Date	Event	Winner	Prize	Entries	Prize Pool	Elapsed Time
Sep 16	$215 Razz	Nabokov	$58,365.00	1,297	$259,400	13 h 40 min
Sep 17	$530 No Limit Texas Hold'em	Rambo5	$320,865.00	4,495	$2,247,500	13 h 7 min
Sep 18	$320 Pot Limit Omaha with re-buys	thegiant	$151,260.90	773 (987 R, 501 A)	$678,300	12 h 53 min
Sep 19	$215 No Limit Texas Hold'em Match Play	spawng1	$58,248.00	2,048	$409,600	11 h 43 min
Sep 20	$530 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo	kwob20	$103,162.25	953	$476,500	11 h 12 min
Sep 21	$215 No Limit Texas Hold'em with rebuys	austinlewis	$199,509.00	2,081 (2,503 R, 1,337 A)	$1,184,200	13 h 34 min
Sep 22	$215 Limit Texas Hold'em	yaaaflow	$60,419.00	1,871	$374,400	12 h 29 min
Sep 23	$215 HORSE	F.Briatore	$79,112.00	1,798	$359,600	13 h 14 min
Sep 23	$530 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em	uncforte	$105,329.00	1,095	$547,500	10 h 58 min
Sep 24	$1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em	strassa2 (Jason Strasser)	$442,440.00	2,458	$2,458,000	13 h 48 min
Sep 25	$320 Seven Card Stud	nikstar	$39,548.00	657	$197,100	11 h 41 min
Sep 26	$320 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo	Mr. Shhhhhhh	$56,080.00	1,303	$390,900	12 h 50 min
Sep 27	$320 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em Short-handed (6/table)	dnKid	$87,560.00	1,741	$522,300	12 h 2 min
Sep 28	$530 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo	kwob20²	$68,267.50	581	$290,500	11 h 44 min
Sep 29	$530 Pot Limit Omaha	Trabelsi	$93,852.75	867	$433,500	10 h 45 min
Sep 30	$5,200 HORSE	stelladora (Chad Brown)	$223,150.00	175	$875,000	11 h 21 min
Sep 30	$1,050 Limit Texas Hold'em	laurentia	$145,200.00	695	$695,000	11 h 51 min
Oct 1	$2,600 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event	area23JC (J. C. Tran)	$670,194.00³	2,510	$6,275,000	13 h 33 min

¹spawng becomes first player to win 2 WCOOP Bracelets.
²kwob20 becomes first player to win 2 WCOOP bracelets in one year
³The original first prize was to be $1,157,737.50, but the final six players in the tournament struck a deal to more evenly divide the prize money.

[edit] 2007 Events

The 2007 World Championship of Online Poker consists of 23 events. The schedule including buy in for each event is listed below. 2007 WCOOP Total Prize Pool: $24,218,600 ^[4]

The event was marred by controversy when the original winner of the main event, TheV0id was disqualified following an investigation by PokerStars.

Date	Event	Winner	Prize	Entries	Prize Pool	Elapsed Time
Sep 14	$215 No-Limit Hold'em [6-max]	samh133	$155,560.73	4,610	$922,000	16 h 46 min
Sep 14	$215 Pot-Limit 5-Card Draw	spielraum.at	$26,265.54	857	$171,400	14 h 23 min
Sep 15	$215 Pot-Limit Omaha [6-max]	jalla79	$67,739.58	1,818	$363,600	13 h 43 min
Sep 15	$215 2-7 Triple Draw	Donald (Anders Berg)	$32,450.00	649	$129,800	13 h 0 min
Sep 16	$530 No-Limit Hold'em	AB_illusive	$398,649.93	6,025	$3,012,500	20 h 38 min
Sep 17	$320 Pot-Limit Omaha w/Rebuys	FossilMan (Greg Raymer)	$168,362.40	772 (1,062 R, 544 A)	$713,400	16 h 11 min
Sep 18	$215 Limit Hold'em	Cardinal7	$67,933.49	2,059	$411,800	16 h 10 min
Sep 19	$530 Limit Omaha H/L (8 or better)	copi	$87,882.76	917	$458,500	13 h 58 min
Sep 20	$215 No-Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys	ruthan	$198,125.66	2,188 (2,852 R, 1,574 A)	$1,322.800	18 h 22 min
Sep 21	$320 No-Limit Hold'em Match Play	ugotmeyet?	$82,054.00	1,886	$565,800	16 h 2 min
Sep 21	$215 Razz	OnlyPlayRagz	$41,136.79	1,176	$235,200	13 h 47 min
Sep 22	$215 H.O.R.S.E.	jaliks	$72,116.00	1,639	$327,800	16 h 46 min
Sep 22	$530 Pot-Limit Hold'Em	antroff	$117,175.00	1,090	$545,000	14 h 36 min
Sep 23	$1,050 No-Limit Hold'em	mig.com (James Mackey)	$580,212.50	3,325	$3,325,000	18 h 24 min
Sep 24	$320 7-Card Stud	Ubsolute	$25,000.00	696	$208,800	13 h 34 min
Sep 25	$320 Pot-Limit Omaha H/L (8 or better)	tiger76	$61,419.17	1,536	$460,800	13 h 41 min
Sep 26	$320 No-Limit Hold'em [6-max]	pes4fans	$167,553.36	2,873	$861,900	17 h 33 min
Sep 27	$530 7-Card Stud H/L (8 or better)	BigLL	$48,367.32	598	$299,000	13 h 26 min
Sep 28	$530 Pot-Limit Omaha	buck21	$97,262.78	1,046	$523,000	10 h 46 min
Sep 28	$530 No-Limit Hold'em Triple Shootout	lyerly_	$76,545.00	729	$364,500	14 h 22 min
Sep 29	$5,200 H.O.R.S.E.	hairos	$202,921.00	177	$885,000	13 h 57 min
Sep 29	$1,050 Limit Hold'em	Sowerss	$120,184.95	616	$616,000	15 h 35 min
Sep 30	$2,600 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event	ka$ino1[5]	$1,378,330.50	2,998	$7,495,000	21 h 51 min

¹Original winner, TheV0id, disqualified.^[6]

[edit] WCOOP Main Event Winners

• 2002: MultiMarine (Täby, Sweden) - $65,450.00
• 2003: DeOhGee (Indian Wells, CA, USA) - $222,750.00
• 2004: Ragde (Oslo, Norway) - $424,945.26
• 2005: Panella86 (Eddystone, PA, USA) - $577,342.00
• 2006: area23JC (Sacramento, CA, USA) - $670,194.00 ^[7]
• 2007: ka$ino (Omaha, NE)- $1,378,330.50

[edit] WCOOP Bracelet Winners by Country

Below is a breakdown of the nationalities of all bracelet winners in the history of the WCOOP:

1. USA - 56
2. Sweden - 10
3. Canada - 6
4. Denmark - 3
5. Austria - 2
6. Germany - 2
7. Netherlands - 2
8. Norway - 2
9. Finland - 1
10. France - 1
11. Hungary - 1
12. Republic of Ireland - 1

[edit] References

1. ^ Casino City
2. ^ About.com
3. ^ Pokerstars.com
4. ^ Pokerstars.com
5. ^ WCOOP $2,600 No limit Hold'em - Main Event
6. ^ WCOOP Main Event Winner Disqualified After Lengthy Investigation
7. ^ Cardplayer

[edit] See also

• World Cup of Poker
• Full Tilt Online Poker Series

[edit] External links

• Official site
• CBS News Story about a group of friends who played on one account together in the WCOOP and made decisions jointly.