PokerStars Unveils 25th WCOOP With 350 Tournaments and $40 Million in Guarantees
The September series spans 121 events, six Main Events and a stack of qualifiers and promos
PokerStars has published the full schedule for the 25th World Championship of Online Poker, and the September series is now set at 350 tournaments running from Sept. 6 through Sept. 30. The slate carries $40 million in guarantees, includes six Main Events with $6.5 million in combined guarantees, and every winner will receive a trophy.
As reported yesterday, PokerStars had already set the dates and said the full slate would follow in the coming weeks. Poker.org describes WCOOP as PokerStars’ annual World Championship of Online Poker, first played in 2002, and says this year’s edition spans 121 different events. It also says 10 of the tournaments are branded World Championship events, and most events are offered at three buy-in levels.
The flagship championships are split between no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha. Poker.org says the NLH and PLO Main Events are each available in Low, Medium and High versions, priced at $109, $1,050 and $10,300. The NLH trio starts Sept. 27 with guarantees of $1.25 million, $2 million and $2.5 million, while the PLO versions start Sept. 28 and carry guarantees of $100,000, $250,000 and $400,000.
PokerNews says the wider festival will cover formats including No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, 8-Game, HORSE, Progressive Knockout, Mystery Bounty and Triple Draw, and that six Main Events will award more than $6.5 million in guaranteed prize money on Sept. 27 and 28. The site also says PokerStars is adding satellites from $0.55, WCOOP-themed Spin & Go events from $0.75, $500,000 in tournament tickets through Lucky Dip, more than $175,000 in ticket bundles and Main Event entries through Power Path Express, and an extra $100,000 across the WCOOP Leaderboards. Steve Clarricoats, PokerStars associate director of online scheduling, told PokerNews that a WCOOP victory is a piece of poker history and that every champion joins an exclusive group of players who have conquered one of the toughest online tournament series in the world.
