Big Online Poker Event Overlaps 2009 PokerStars WCOOP Schedule
July 15, 2009
Recently we told you that the schedule for the upcoming 2009 PokerStars WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker). What we didn’t tell you was that, around the same time as PokerStars released the 2009 WCOOP schedule, fellow leading poker site FullTilt Poker released its scheduled for the next Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XIII) and its lower-stakes sister-series, the Mini-FTOPS. Why bring that up here?
Because unlike last time, when the two FTOPS events ran concurrently, this time they run on separate days. Thankfully the FTOPS’s schedule doesnt interfere with the one for the WCOOP, but the one for the Mini-FTOPS sure does.
In fact, the schedule of the Mini-FTOPS XIII (September 9-20) overlap entirely with the 2009 PokerStars WCOOP (September 3-20)! Even the September 20 Main Events overlap, with the Mini-FTOPS $500,000 Main Event beginning at 5 pm ET and the WCOOP $10,000,000 Main Event beginning at 6:30.
To find out which other events overlap at the same times too, check the individual schedules.
PokerStars Releases WCOOP 2009 Schedule: Includes $10 Million Main Event
July 6, 2009
PokerStars has released the schedule for the latest installment of its annual World Championship of Online Poker. The 2009 WCOOP will commence on September 3. The number of poker tournament events comprising the series has jumped from last year’s 33 to 45 this year, with events not only in Holdem but in Omaha, Stud, Razz, HORSE, 2-7 Triple Draw, and Badugi.
The 2009 WCOOP Main Event, of course, will be in No Limit Holdem, a $5,200 two-day event with a whopping $10 million guaranteed prize pool. Satellite qualifers for free entry into this event are running now at PokerStars.
More than a dozen of the events in the 2009 WCOOP boast prize pools of over $1 million, including:
- Event #1: September 3, $215 six-max No Limit Holdem for $1.25 million guaranteed
- Event #10: September 6, $10,300 No Limit Holdem High Roller for $2 million guaranteed
- Event #11: September 6, $530 No Limit Holdem two-day for $3 million guaranteed
- Event #28: September 13, $1,050 No Limit Holdem two-day for $3 million guaranteed
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