Keeping with the tradition of the World Series of Poker, the WCOOP is a series of tournaments in which players compete in a variety of different poker games, each with different buy-in and prize levels. The fifteen WCOOP events in 2005 generated $12,783,900 in prize money, making it not only the biggest ever online poker event, but the third biggest poker series (live or online) in all of 2005. The WCOOP tournament series is the largest of its kind on the Internet. It is played on the PokerStars website in September.Įstablished in 2002, WCOOP is PokerStars' attempt to establish the online equivalent of the World Series of Poker. The World Championship of Online Poker ( WCOOP) is an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) You can help by converting this article, if appropriate. This article is in list format but may read better as prose.
