PokerStars announces $2 million WCOOP guarantee
9 Sep 2010
The 2010 WCOOP Main Event Champion will walk away with a guaranteed $2,000,000 payday, the largest winner's payout for any online poker tournament anywhere in the world.
The news comes just days after the WCOOP got under way last Sunday, with eight new WCOOP champions crowned already and more than $11 million awarded in prize money.
The 2010 WCOOP schedule expands on last year's series, featuring 62 individual events over 22 days. Tournaments in many of poker's most popular variations and at different buy-ins fill the schedule, with the biggest guaranteed total prize pool of any online tournament series - a combined $50 million is up for grabs - which on an event-by-event basis have all been smashed so far.
WCOOP culminates in the two-day Main Event starting on 26 September, which features a $5,200 buy-in and a now life-changing first prize.
Last year's WCOOP featured 45 events over 18 days and a combined prize pool of $51,652,800. The Main Event winner was Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko, who walked away with a first prize of $1,715,200. This year's guarantee far exceeds that amount.