Huge Money This Weekend at Poker Stars' WCOOP

Wins Second Biggest Prize in Poker Stars History; H.O.R.S.E. Event Held

To say this year's World Championship of Online Poker was going well for Poker Stars would be an understatement. This weekend alone easily stands as a good example of why. Between Friday and Sunday, the WCOOP held four tournaments and all four events earned well past their guaranteed prize monies. In fact, the $1,000+$50 buy-in no-limit event's prize pool was almost two-and-a-half times larger than its $1 million guarantee, which equated to the second biggest prize in Poker Stars history.

This weekend also marked the first year the WCOOP would hold a H.O.R.S.E. event (there are actually two H.O.R.S.E. events in this series). The event was obviously riding on the fervor following the reinstatement of the H.O.R.S.E. event in this year's WSOP, where Chip Reese took home the bracelet and the $1,716,000 prize. Poker Stars apparently still had some trepidations about how much interest players would have in the event, only putting up a $100,000 guarantee for the prize pool. The guarantee was put to shame when 1,798 players entered the fray to build a $359,600 prize pool.

WCOOP Event No. 10: $1 Million Guaranteed No-Limit Hold'em

Poker Stars biggest event of the weekend lived up to its expectations by drawing in 2,458 players to stick in their $1,000+$50 entry fee and build the second-largest prize ever to be given out by Poker Stars. First place stood to earn $442,440 and a 14 karat gold WCOOP bracelet. Some big names cashed in the event, including online poker stars sheets (24th, $8,603), Action Jeff (37th, $5,653.40) and Jordan 'iMsoLucky0' Morgan (124th $3,441.20). Poker stars Luca Pagano and Victor Ramdin also made money in the event (85th, $4,178.60 and 319th, $1,966.40 respectively).

The event's final table sported some star power with chip leader Jason 'strassa2' Strasser. The table also had a player named BarnyBoatman with the poker pro's picture as an avatar, although it was pointed out that the player was not actually Boatman.

courtesy of cardplayer.com

News Added: 25 September, 2006

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