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The organizers of the upcoming World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) are getting ready to host players from more than 80 countries competing in 18 tournaments for a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million.
The championship is set to start on September 16 and will run over 16 days. It starts with the $200 buy-in Razz (Seven-Card Stud Low) tournament and ends on October 1st with the $2,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament which offers cash prizes of $3 million.
A highlight of this year’s tournament will be the online debut of H.O.R.S.E., a rotation of five varieties of poker which is expected to draw some of the game’s top names.
Spokesperson Barry Greenstein of Team PokerStars says, “Prestigious tournaments such as the PokerStars.com WCOOP are the ultimate means to improve your game and experience the excitement of big tournament play. The WCOOP is a popular event with the established stars of online poker, and the H.O.R.S.E. tournament is bound to attract the elite.”
The 2005 WCOOP tournament series attracted 19,727 players and generated $12,783,900 in prize money making it the third largest online and terrestrial poker spectacle in the world.
Watch this space closely - the 2006 event has already attracted a huge amount of attention and is expected to break all previous records.
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