by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
We may have had our first player to ever have a WSOP bracelet and a WCOOP Bracelet. FossilMan, more commonly known as the WSOP 2004 main event winner Greg Raymer, beat out 771 people on the way to winning his first WCOOP event ever. This event was a $320 rebuy and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
The 5th Event of the WCOOP proved to be the best so far. The tournament had 6025 entrants and a prize pool of over 3 million dollars. AB_illusive, a respected high stakes cash game regular, took home almost 400 thousand dollars in the biggest prize pool of the WCOOP...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 20, 2007 | Poker News, WCOOP
So the WCOOP hasn’t been going very good, earlier in the year i won 2 WSOP packages on stars, so i got w$ for the 2nd package, decided I will use them towards the WCOOP and possibly save some to use to qualify for wsop or pca next year as well. So i played the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 19, 2007 | WCOOP
The World Championship of Online Poker’s $215 buy in, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball tournament, was the 4th installment of the WCOOP series. It was the smallest tournament of the Championship so far. It had a field of only 649 players, and a prize pool $129,800. The winner,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 19, 2007 | WCOOP
The 3rd WCOOP tournament, a shorthanded $215 buy-in pot-limit Omaha high event, had a field of 1818 players and a prize pool of over $350,000. Although some professionals had a strong showing the eventual winner was jalla79, an amateur who took home just under...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 18, 2007 | WCOOP
BadgerPro, a top MTT professional, recently entered the WCOOP Event #2: 5 Card Draw. He Final Tabled the event and recieved a 5th place finish for over $6,000. Interestingly enough, Badger hadn’t played 5 Card Draw seriously before he entered the event, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 17, 2007 | WCOOP
The 2nd WCOOP tournament, a 215 dollar buy-in pot-limit 5-card draw event, showed a field of 857 players and a prize pool exceeding 170,000 dollars. The eventual bracelet winner, spielraum.at from Salzburg, Austria, took home a cool 26,265 dollars, a nice chunk of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 16, 2007 | WCOOP
WCOOP kicks off, almost one million dollars up for grabs! The World Championship of Online Poker kicked off last Friday with Event #1, Short Handed No Limit Hold’em, which had $215 buy in. Big names came out for the event, including Victor Ramdin, The__D__RY (16th...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 15, 2007 | WCOOP
Event #1, $215 Short Handed NLHE, reached a prize pool of almost one million dollars! The winner was samh133, a well known high stakes cash game player. Event #2, $215 PL 5 Card Draw, reached quadruple the guaranteed prize pool! ($400,000) The winner was spielraum.at...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 13, 2007 | WCOOP
Hi all, Tomorrow the WCOOP will officially start with the $215 short handed NLHE event. There is 400k guaranteed, which yours truly will be fighting for. Through this coverage we will be giving you recaps of each event, which will include quotes from your favorite MTT...