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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

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

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

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

With a successful poker career that spans more than a decade of live play and includes multiple WSOP final tables, it's no surprise that Mark "weaktight" Gregorich mirrors his live success on the virtual felt. Our World Championship of Online Poker Event #21 champion spared some time to chat with...more

Event #12 came down to a clash of the titans, as Randy "Randers" Haddox squared off heads-up against Aaron "011180" Kanter for the bracelet and the top cash prize of $66,000 in the Mixed Hold'em Event. It took well past sunrise ET for the final table to finish, but finally...more

Just a few days after Mary 717's boyfriend staked her $1,000 on PokerStars to take a shot at some bigger buy-in tournaments, she's logged three WCOOP cashes, two final tables and a World Championship of Online Poker Bracelet for Event #7. Not a bad couple of weeks' work! The relative...more

Brent "92848" Carter is no stranger to tournament poker success. While his victory in Event #11 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker is his first WCOOP bracelet, he's got two WSOP bracelets to go with it, along with an eye-popping 48 career cashes at the World Series of...more

It took two days for Mike "NYC P.I.M.P" Shklover to navigate the massive 3,467-player field in Event #20 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker, but when the dust settled, the 28-year-old New Yorker took down the bracelet and $257,953 for first place. We caught up with the young...more

Matthew "cwp394" Ross, like many young poker pros, discovered the online game when he went to college. Unlike many of his age-mates, Ross, winner of Event #3 in the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker, prefers Limit Hold'em to No Limit. Ross is a Limit Hold'em specialist, playing tons of...more

Event #13, the $215 No Limit Hold'em with Rebuys in the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker drew a stacked field, with a monstrous final table including 2007 WCOOP Main Event final tablist nitbuster and online superstar Kevin "BeLOWaBOVe" Saul. When the dust settled, the last man standing was lrdvoldemort,...more

Online pro jonasof87 was one of two Norwegians to make the final table of WCOOP Event #9, sharing that distinction with EirikS, who he said was the "only guy I did have trouble with." When he crippled EirikS after nearly two hours at the final table, the floodgates opened for...more

A late-afternoon decision to play in Event #6 of the World Championship of Online Poker because "the Vikings were not going to be playing on TV until Monday night" worked out $452,086.50 to the good for 46-year-old Tim "Calvin32" Sullivan. The Sioux Falls construction company CFO bought into the WCOOP...more

Scott "DorinVandy" Dorin was a 22-year-old recent college grad seated at a final table with an EPT Champion, a World Series MVP and a WSOP World Champion. To say the table was stacked might be considered an understatement. But when the dust settled and the last card was dealt, is...more

Full-time student ImBillMcNeal (yes, he's a big NewsRadio fan, that's where the name came from)went into the final table of WCOOP Event #2 second in chips, but after a tough final table and staying awake for almost 24 straight hours found himself $34,210.60 richer and the second winner in the...more