The World Championship of Online Poker has once again come to an end and from this event have emerged some great winners! The recent addition to the list of winners is the Ukrainian player, Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko who brought down the field of 2,144 players in the PokerStars World Championship of Online poker to bring home $1.7 million dollars.

An entire month of high stakes tournaments ended Monday, with the main event yielding the largest prize pool of all of the events. The game was No Limit Texas Hold ‘em, and the stakes were $5,200. The top 306 of the tournament brought down a prize, with the lowest prize still being a gain of $3,000 from the $5,000 dollar buys in. Even the second place winner took home $1 million dollars, causing this tournament to create two millionaires over night.

In total, the WCOOP gave out prizes equal to $51,652,800. More than 112,000 players took part, and over 104 different countries watched players in the money. Among these 104 countries involved, the United States won the most first place positions.

Twenty-five of the bracelets handed out by the WCOOP went to USA players, with the United Kingdom taking the next largest set of four. One player, djk123, minted money more than any other player, making money 11 times, and was at more final tables than the rest of the field. More USA Online Poker!

The WCOOP comes once a year, and this year the games featured 45 exciting events over 18 days. The next WCOOP starts in around a year’s time, and all PokerStars pro players are legible to attend. Anyone else who is legally able to gamble in their jurisdiction may sign up for PokerStars, and feel the magnetizing power of their newly revamped deposit bonus; a 100% match to $600 dollars.

PokerStars is the largest and most reputable online poker room, and there is not a day that goes buy that over 100,000 players are not actively tossing chips around the tables.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Pro Players, Poker Tournaments, WCOOP | No Comments » September 28th, 2009

The PokerStars World Series of online poker has always had high achievers throughout the event. Following on from the United Kingdom’s great run of form at this year’s World Series of Poker, another British player has maintained the country’s fantastic recent record by taking down a World Championship of Online Poker event on PokerStars.

The Briton, who plays under the online handle MUSTAFABET, took down the Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max event to secure a first prize of $86,247 and an all-important WCOOP bracelet after surpassing a total of 2,738 runners that included Bertrand ElkY Grospellier and Barry Greenstein.

The victory was certainly a very challenging one for the UK-based player who, playing in a different time zone did not finish his night’s work until 9.00 in the morning UK time, which means a full 14 hours after the tournament had kicked off. Although, when the final hand did eventually come about, the chips found their way into the middle in no time.

With MUSTAFABET sharing a 4-3-5-3-Q board with his only remaining competitor, Brunswick Dave, an all-in and a call saw both players turn over absolutely huge heads-up hands. Brunswick Dave showed 7-3-J-Q for threes full of queens, but MUSTAFABET had him jagged with 5-4-9-5 for a bigger boat with fives full.

The hand ensured that MUSTAFABET picked up his first WCOOP bracelet and finally put the UK on the board for PokerStars’ flagship series, with his victory coming on the back of a solid performance at this year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker, where he also made the final table in the Eight Game event.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WCOOP | No Comments » September 8th, 2009

Full Tilt Poker, one o the largest online poker room in the world is at it again with a set of new promotions to entertain its players. Extra full tilt points, cash back rewards, and even a Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series, sporting a large prize pool spread across over twenty events is what the promotions are all about.

Full Tilt is running their Take 2 promotion as part of its offerings. For participating in at least two ring games throughout the event, players will earn at least double poker points while they play. Those who play will also receive up to $50 dollars in free cash. The $50 is disbursed according to how much you play.

If you want more, FullTiltPoker.com is also offering Triple Points Happy Hour. Some qualifying ring games and tournaments will be get boost point earnings triple fold. With the Take 2 tables, players will be earning Full Tilt points at an astronomical rate. These points can be used on items such as Full Tilt gear, iPods, electronics, and tournaments can also be paid for through these points.

While PokerStars is running their WCOOP, Full Tilt will be running a MiniFTOPS to award players with over $3 million in prizes. There will be 25 events and players who do not wish to buy-in directly may enter a satellite for as little as $0.50 or 50 Full Tilt points. Players may win their points rapidly then use them to enter those satellites, perhaps winning a chance at $500,000!

Full Tilts Poker Pros will be present at the tables giving their tips and guidance. This time its about more money and all players have equal chance of taking home a piece of the reward. September is a big month for Full Tilt poker, and all of these promotions will be utilized fast.

Players who have yet to sign up will even face their deposit bonus as an option; a 100% bonus to $600 dollars. This bonus depends on the poker points, making September an excellent month to sign up with Full Tilt poker.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in FTOPS, Poker News, WCOOP | No Comments » September 3rd, 2009

As Christmas time nears this year, the online casino industry is getting in shape as well. PokerStars now gets ready to kick off the latest edition of its World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). This magnificent Championship is featuring 45 events and a total prize-pool guarantee of $40 million, so there is more temptation this time when it comes to online casino poker.

This year’s WCOOP offers three high-roller events that will without a doubt bring out the game’s elite thanks to the huge buy-in. The high-roller events include a $2 million guaranteed No-Limit event on September 6th, an $800,000 guaranteed No-Limit Match Play event on September 13th, and a $1 million guaranteed H.O.R.S.E tournament on September 20th.

Just like the event has always had a line of games ready, the WCOOP offers something for all types of players this time as well including No-Limit, Razz, Pot-Limit Omaha, Fixed-Limit Hold’em, 8-Game Mix, Pot-Limit Hold’em, Badugi, Omaha Hi-Lo, Fixed-Limit Omaha Fixed-Limit Triple Draw, H.O.R.S.E, 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo, Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, and the newly introduced No-Limit Omaha.

Last year, PokerStars awarded $39,958,000 in prize money for players through 33 events. The biggest winner was “ckingusc” after he dragged the Main Event championship and the $1,265,432 first-place prize.

To make the event more special a number of top players are expected to participate including Team PokerStars players: Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Rousso and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier.

Although PokerStars offers action and entertainment to numerous countries worldwide, the players in the U.S. have dominated the action, landing 535 final-table appearances, $59,472,430.22 in earnings and 11,094 cashes.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WCOOP | No Comments » September 2nd, 2009

When it comes to online poker, the PokerStars provides its players the best it can whether its monetary terms or the games it offer.

Recently the PokerStars.com has added a total of one million dollars for the 2009 World Championship of online poker seats, which are running daily from August 4th to 6th.

According to a Poker room manager, Mike Jones “We’re calling them the WCOOP Extreme Satellites, harkening to extreme sports in the sense that we’re having a massive giveaway in the satellites,” he further went on “In every satellite, we’re going to be adding 50 to 100 seats to the prize pool. We’re throwing in literally $1 million worth of seats completely as added value, and those satellites start as low as $7.50.”

For the Extreme Satellites, players will win their way into a WCOOP tournament of a certain buy-in such as $109, $215, etc, instead of specific tournament, so that players are able to choose their desired tournament.

There WCOOP tournament also has special qualifiers running every day until the start of the series, which commences on September 5th. Just like the World Series of Poker satellites, PokerStars also has Steps tournaments which start at $7.50. The 2009 WCOOP will feature 45 events, and this is expected to be the biggest online poker series it has ever held. Read more!

“Despite the issue with the economy, we still had good growth in our business over the last year, so I think we can expect that, to some extent, at least to translate into participation,” said Jones.

The WCOOP will feature new tournaments such as, a $109 no-limit hold’em with a $1 million-guaranteed prize pool, as well as new formats, like the $215 “big ante” no-limit hold’em tournament.

There will be no mini-WCOOP with similar events with lower buy-ins, a trend PokerStars employed for its most recent Spring Championship of Online Poker.

According to a manger Alex Scott” We wanted to keep the prestige of the WCOOP intact,” “The WCOOP is the World Championship. At the same time, we’re offering cheap ways to get into these tournaments.”

The WCOOP includes faster dealing compared to last year’s series, synchronized breaks for its events, and new payout and blinds structures.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WCOOP | No Comments » August 5th, 2009