WCOOP Schedule Released

The PokerStars.com World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) returns on September 3, 2009 for its eighth year. The $40 million guaranteed prize pool – $10 million more than last year’s tournament series – makes it the biggest online poker tournament series in the world.

Players from all over the world will be competing to become World Champions, winning millions in cash prizes and picking up the much-coveted WCOOP gold bracelets.

PokerStars have taken into account feedback from the poker player community when creating the schedule, with each WCOOP event promising a huge guaranteed prize pool, with many exceeding $1 million. There will be a total of 45 events covering a wide range of poker variants including Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Razz, HORSE and 2-7 Draw.

There are eight brand new events this year including the $320 fixed limit Badugi, $530 Heads Up pot-limit Omaha and big ante no-limit Hold’em events. Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu said ‘There are hundreds of exciting tournaments all year round but nothing compares to the WCOOP – it’s the ‘must play’ event of the year for any poker player.’

The WCOOP is hosted exclusively by the world’s largest poker room, PokerStars.com, and will run across 18 days from September 3 – 21, 2009 starting with the $215 buy-in NL Hold’em tournament. The series will conclude with the two day, $5,200 no-limit Hold’em Main Event on September 20, 2009.

To see the full schedule visit www.pokerstars.com