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Friday, September 23, 2005World Championships of Online Poker ResultsStep aside World Poker Tour and WSOP, a new tournament is town and it’s breaking all sorts of records. Of course we are talking about the WCOOP (World Championships of Online Poker). This past month (Sept. 4 th thru the 18 th) online poker room PokerStars.com played host to the biggest online poker tournament in the history of the World Wide Web. In only its fourth season, this years WCOOP generated so much attention that it was able to raise a total prize pool of nearly 13 million dollars, that’s the biggest prize pool to be had on the Internet to date (this also placed the WCOOP into the top three poker series events of the year). What makes this event so special, compared to other Poker events, is the fact that it all takes place online, allowing players from anywhere in the world to take part. This is great for poker fanatics who have always dreamed of entering a major tournament but just didn’t have the ability to travel half way across the world to do so. Players form over 50 different countries world wide took part in the event this year, making this tournament the most international and diverse of any poker event, ever. Also adding to the success of the tournament is the huge increase in the popularity of the game of poker (in many ways thanks to such huge televised events as the WPT and WSOP). And of course, the increase of internet use with safer, more secure, easier to use and more accessible web technologies has also helped make this years event one to be proud of for PokerStars.com. In fact, the number of participants in this years event actually doubled from last year, and PokerStars.com hopes that this trend will continue for years to come. The 2005 WCOOP, kicked off on Sept. 4 th with a No Limit, $500 buy-in, Holdem tournament with over 3000 participants and a prize pool of just over $1.5 million. Over the next 14 days the series continued to break records for the WCOOP and millions and millions of cash prizes were rewarded to thousands of lucky players. But like all major poker events, it is the last day of the series, when the main poker event gets underway, that everyone looks forward to. In this case it was a $2500 buy-in, No Limit Holdem event that nearly 1500 participants had dreams of winning. 435 of these skilled poker players earned a piece of the $3,735,000 total prize pool. But only one player can be named the 2005 WCOOP main event champion and walk away with the big cash prize and the coveted World Championship of Online Poker bracelet. And this year the lucky player was Panella86 from Pennsylvania, USA, who took home a whopping $577, 342. Congratulations to Panella86, all the tournament champions, all prize winners and to PokerStars.com for putting together a real “World Class” poker Tournament. | |
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