So you want to win a million bucks, huh? Well, here's how you do it. First, you manage to make it to the final table of the World Championship of Online Poker. Then you do exactly what you see below. To cap off our WCOOP coverage, PokerStars.tv has put together the final highlights reel. Below you can see the final table of the Main Event play out with all the hole cards exposed. Enjoy! Watch WCOOP Highlights: $5,200 Main Event on PokerStars.tv
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Zachary 'ckingusc' King claims Main Event gold
Zachary "ckingusc" King outlasted a massive field of 2,185 players including some of the world's biggest stars to take down the Main Event of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker. The 2-day event had a record $10,925,000 prize pool, with $1,260,000 heading to the young pro from Columbia, SC....more
Andrew 'TheActionKid' Glogowski captures gold in Triple Shootout
23-year-old Andrew "TheActionKid" Glogowski is an online poker old-timer, despite his youth. Glogowski got his start in online poker almost five years ago, making six figures the first year and never looking back. Despite tournament scores in the $20-30K range, his victory in Event #27 of the World Championship of...more
WCOOP Event #33 $5,200 NLHE Main Event: ckingusc wins the championship bracelet and $1.26 million
ckingusc takes down the WCOOP Main Event Day 2 of the World Championship of Online Poker Main Event began with 60 players vying for the $1.775 million first prize. Those were the survivors of 2,185 runners who started the event on Sunday. The number of entrants created an online poker...more
WCOOP Main Event Day 2 live blog
Day 2 live blog coverage of the WCOOP Main Event, $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em is brought to you by Johnny Kampis and Martin Harris. Have a story? E-mail to blog@pokerstars.com. Click refresh to see the latest information. For a look at previous coverage, see the Main Event Day 1 live blog...more
Ruben "rubenrtv" Visser takes down Event #26
About a year and a half ago, Ruben "rubenrtv" Visser made his first deposit on PokerStars. Since then, the 19-year-old Dutch Business Administration student has been on quite a tear, with final tables in the Sunday Million, Sunday Warm-Up and other tournaments to his credit, but nothing to date can...more
WCOOP Event #31 highlights show
After more than two solid weeks of poker, we are just about to bid goodbye to the 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker. Before we get Day 2 of the Main Event underway, we have another great highlight show. PokerStars.tv has all the action from the $1,050 Limit Hold'em...more
WCOOP: Khan looks back on tournament series
by Hevad Khan I have positive thoughts on the 2008 WCOOP. I was never much of a mixed game player, but at the end of this entire series I have gone from a complete newbie to a knowledgable player in all mixed games to the point of being able...more
WCOOP Event #33: $5,200 NLHE Main Event Day 1 down with august35 up, WCOOP title and $1.7 million still up for grabs
The big one. The 2008 World Championship of Online Poker main event. Thirty-two events of all shapes, sizes, and buy-ins led to this - the main event extravaganza. Players logged in from around the world so as not to miss the online championship that started it all and continues to...more
WCOOP Main Event live blog
Live blog coverage of the WCOOP Main Event, $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em is brought to you by David Aydt, Stephen Bartley, Martin Harris, Jennifer Newell, and Dave Behr. Have a story? E-mail to blog@pokerstars.com. Click refresh to see the latest information. 5:08am--Day 1 of the Main Event is a wrap! Upon...more
Shaun Deeb notches another big win in Event #25
Some professional internet players have become famous enough that their screen names are widely known without introduction, like ElkY. If you sit down across the table from ElkY, you know you're facing Team PokerStars Pro Bertran Grospellier. Some players have achieved such heights of live success that their online...more
WCOOP Event #31: aasezz rises from the ashes to claim limit hold'em title
In WCOOP Event #31, the shove-and-pray strategy was unavailable. It was time for limit hold'em, giving the entrants an opportunity to bunker down and play a lot more hands at the six-handed tables. With a plethora of chips spread all over, players' hopes of grabbing the $107,300.00 first-place prize...more
WCOOP Event #32: DocHolatchya captures $10,300 HORSE bracelet
The last mixed game event of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker sported an eye-popping $10,300 price tag for entering. And as we see during the $50K H.O.R.S.E. event at the World Series of Poker every summer, the combination of the challenging mixed game format and high entry fee...more
Oops! I won another bracelet! Tom "luvgamble" Schneider takes down Event #24.
Event #24, No-limit 2-7 Single Draw (or Kansas City Lowball) is one of those games that not a lot of people play, and not a lot is written about. That's a bonus to this year's No Limit 2-7 Single Draw champion, Tom "luvgamble" Schneider. Schneider, who has had tremendous...more
WCOOP Event #32 $10,300 HORSE live blog
Live blog coverage of WCOOP Event #32 $10,300 HORSE brought to you by Jason Kirk, David Aydt, Dave Behr, and Martin Harris. Have a story? E-mail to blog@pokerstars.com. Click refresh to see the latest information. 4:42am--Team PokerStars doesn't quite get there; DocHolatchya wins Event No. 32 Team PokerStars Pro Andre...more
WCOOP Event #31 $1,050 Limit Hold'em live blog
Live blog coverage of WCOOP Event #31 $1,050 Limit Hold'em is brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Johnny Kampis, Jordan Raanan, and April Kyle. Have a story? E-mail to blog@pokerstars.com. Click refresh to see the latest information. 7:04am - drood out in 2nd, aasezz takes it down To win a...more
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