September 21, 2018
PokerStars has hailed the success of its recently concluded World Championship of Online Poker, reporting that over 1.1 million entries were received from 148,000 unique players in 140 countries, who played in 185 events… a new online poker record. Almost $100 million in prize money was handed out over the two week festival of online […]
August 20, 2018
The month of September will see a massive $130 million invested by Pokerstars and PartyPoker as they compete for players in two distinct major tournaments. Pokerstars has announced that this year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) set to run from September 2 to 17 will have $70 million in guaranteed prize pools, whilst PartyPoker […]
August 2, 2018
Pokerstars has announced that it is to invest over $116 million in prize pool guarantees during this year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) season, which runs from September 2 to 17. More than $70 million of will come from WCOOP alone making this year’s championship the biggest yet, with 182 tournaments spread across 61 […]
September 29, 2017
PokerStars reports that the recently completed 2017 World Championship of Online Poker has been another of its success stories. WCOOP this year ran from September 3rd to September 27th and attracted over 107,000 players, awarding a total of over $90 million in pay-outs. The lower buy-in events this year proved to be especially popular and […]
September 27, 2017
Steven “SvZff” van Zadelhoff, a Dutch pro based in Malta, capped a 15-year online and live tournament playing career this week with a $1.6 million win in the main event of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker. The win augments an already impressive career earnings record achieved by van Zadelhoff that includes $3.8 million […]
September 25, 2017
Rachid “SkaiWalkurr” Ben Cherif (27), a Dutch-based hyper turbo and heads up S&G specialist who has been quietly racking up big wins on the internet since 2006, has scored a victory worth $210,813 at the World Championship of Online Poker this week, besting a field of 1,522 in the $1,050 buy-in NLHE 6-Max, Turbo, Progressive […]
August 30, 2017
PokerStars players who reach the final table in certain World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) events will be among the first to receive videos that celebrate their tournament winning moments thanks to innovative software that generates personalised videos when a player runs deep in a No Limit Hold’em tournament. Launched by PokerStars, the automated videos […]
August 1, 2017
PokerStars has revealed a few basic details on its plans for the next World Championship of Online Poker tournament series, announcing that the tournament will take place between September 3 and 25 and include a $5,200 buy-in three-day Main Event. Asking for player input on the forums, a PokerStars representative posted: “The Super Tuesday and […]
October 11, 2016
PokerStars’ flagship online tournament series, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), has completed another record-breaking year with a guarantee-busting $73,718,745.19 total prize pool across 82 events from 4-27 September. This year PokerStars also launched a complementary series, Mini-WCOOP, offering low stakes entry into the WCOOP experience for the first time. Mini-WCOOP generated a total […]
September 28, 2016
German pro poker player Jonas “llJaYJaYll” Lauck is a happy man today after banking the top $1,517,541 prize in the $5,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event of the World Championship of Online Poker. He is not alone in his celebrations; the final table survivors all took home impressive pay-checks from the massive $10,052,879.79 prize pool created […]