PokerStars Adds WCOOP Games Community Qualifier Promotion
One-cent entries can lead to selected $109 events, team freerolls and $1,000 Main Event tickets as the 25th WCOOP nears.
PokerStars has added WCOOP Games to the build-up to the 25th World Championship of Online Poker, giving players a one-cent route into selected $109 events and a shot at team prizes. The promotion runs alongside the main WCOOP festival and is built around four community teams.
According to PokerStars, players choose which community they want to represent, then try to win their qualifier and earn the ambassador’s Centroll. Successful qualifiers move on to a series of last-longer Face-Offs played inside regular WCOOP tournaments, with Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg, Marle “MarlzTV” Spragg, Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber, and Del & Phil leading the four teams.
As reported last week, PokerStars had already published the 25th WCOOP schedule, which runs from Sept. 6 to 30 and covers 350 tournaments across 121 numbered events. The series carries at least $40 million in guarantees, most events are split into Low, Medium and High buy-in tiers, and every tournament winner will receive an official WCOOP trophy shipped home.
WCOOP Games qualifiers are scheduled for Aug. 23, Aug. 30 and Sept. 6. The winning communities will receive dedicated freerolls worth up to $7,000, and every member of the overall winning team will collect a $1,000 WCOOP Main Event ticket.
The broader WCOOP package also includes qualification paths starting at $0.55 through traditional satellites, $0.75 Spin & Go qualifiers, the returning WCOOP Lucky Dip promotion with $500,000 in tournament tickets, and Power Path Express, which adds more than $175,000 in ticket bundles and Main Event entries. PokerStars is also running WCOOP leaderboards for Low, Medium, High and overall Player of the Series, with another $100,000 set aside for those races.
