It was the highlight of this year's World Championship of Online poker so far. Sixty-four people put up $25,000 apiece to play for the half million dollar first prize and the prestige of being the WCOOP Heads-Up champion. PokerStars.tv put together a sweet highlight reel for everyone to see. Check it out below. Watch WCOOP Highlights: Event 19 - $25,500 NLHE Heads-Up on PokerStars.tv More $25,000 Heads-Up news Coren settles nerves Lee Nelson can't keep up WCOOP Event #19: stevesbets defeats ElkY for bracelet WCOOP Event #19 live blog
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2008 WCOOP: Coren settles nerves after Event #19
by Victoria Coren The WCOOP $25,000 Heads-Up Championship turned out to be the most nerve-wracking tournament I've ever played. It wasn't the size of the buy-in (I've played for this crazy price twice before, once making a profit of $17,000 and once for nada) but the structure. There was something...more
WCOOP Event #19: Lee Nelson can't keep up
by Lee Nelson The final table of the $25,500 buy-in heads-up tournament was like none I've ever observed. Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, a Team PokerStars pro, battled it out with Steven "stevesbets" Jacobs at such a furious rate that at times I thought I was watching a ping pong championship instead...more
WCOOP Event #19: stevesbets defeats ElkY for bracelet
by Carol Kline and Brad Willis Look around and the world and count the $25,000 or bigger buy-in poker tournaments. There aren't very many. The World Series has the $50,000 HORSE event. That tournament takes a week to play. The World Poker Tour Championship is $25,000 and it takes several...more
WCOOP Event #19 $25,000 Heads-Up Live Blog
Live blog coverage of WCOOP Event #19 $25,000 Heads-Up NLHE is brought to you by bloggers April Kyle, C.J Hoyt, Brad Willis, and Carol Kline. The event began with 64 players and will play down to the $560,000 first prize winner. Have a story for us? E-mail to blog@pokerstars.com. Click...more
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