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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

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

by Noah Boeken Winning WCOOP Heads-up tournaments has always been a huge goal of mine. Having watched fellow Dutchman Rob Hollink win the Heads-up in the first WCOOP ever, I was eager to follow in his footsteps and take this tournament down. Unluckily for me I was met with my...more

by Steve Paul-Ambrose Mixed holdem has quickly gone from an experiment at the 2007 WSOP, to a very popular format for tournament poker. In Event 12, nearly 1,500 players put up the $320 buyin to compete for a first prize of more than $73,000. My tournament came to an...more

by Marcin Horecki Event #9 of PokerStars' 2008 WCOOP No-Limit 4-Max promised to be a fast and fierce tournament. With 1,100 players out of nearly 3300 participants departing in the first hour, those predictions came true. Actually, this proved that PokerStars players present high skill level and are not only...more

by John Duthie Having busted on level 4 of this tourney making a move with 4,6 suited it was great to watch the players whose patience, timing and skill managed to get them to the final 10. This looked like a very interesting line-up with our old friend 'Money800' (Chris...more

by Tom McEvoy A new world record was established the other day in PokerStars Pot Limit Omaha Tournament. It was the largest number of players to ever participate in an Omaha tournament in history. This is not a surprise. Every guarantee in the first 8 events of the WCOOP has...more

by Vanessa Rousso As the inaugural PokerStars WCOOP $10k buy-in event looms large, I feel like I did as a kid in the days leading up to Christmas. On September 7th at 2:30 p.m ET, Poker Stars will launch WCOOP Event 5, a $10,300 buy-in with a whopping $2 million...more

by Tom McEvoy We are less than a month away from the WCOOP and I for one can hardly wait! I look forward to this tournament all year long. Where else can I play one or sometimes two major online tournaments a day right in the comfort of my...more

by Isabelle Mercier I'm so excited about the upcoming WCOOP, I cannot wait for this to start! I was amazed when I saw the 2008 schedule, mostly because of the 25K heads-up event, but also for my favorite one, the HORSE that is now 10K buy-in! I did really good...more

by Chad Brown WCOOP will be starting Friday, and I for one will be looking forward to it. Two years ago in the then biggest buy-in of online poker history--the first $5,000 HORSE event--I was fortunate to come in 1st place, winning about $225,000. It was very exciting moment in...more

By Steve Paul-Ambrose WCOOP is coming and I'm already getting excited. I've had a month now to forget about the disappointment of the WSOP and now have another to get ready for this year's new and improved version of WCOOP, featuring a few new games and several higher buyin tournaments....more