The World Championship of
Online Poker (WCOOP) has joined the best non-web poker tournaments in
offering the highest prizes and attracting the most players.
This year’s
event was attended by the second-largest number of players (10,085) and
awarded the sixth-highest prize pool ($6,002,300), meaning the
championship, hosted by Pokerstars.com, now competes with the biggest
television tournaments.
In fact, three of
the four events with the largest number of entrants this year were WCOOP
events. Only the main event of the World Series of Poker attracted more
players.
The total prize pool
for the main WCOOP competition alone exceeded $2 million — a higher
figure than many of the biggest poker events shown on television. No
internet-based competition of any kind has ever awarded such a large
cash prize. 27 players won $10,000 or more in the main event.
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