Pokerstars' W.c.o.o.p. 2014 Schedule Released

By Brian Cullingworth, Last updated Aug 8, 2014

September start for tournament that will feature guaranteed prize pools totalling $40 million

Pokerstars has released the schedule for its popular 2014 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) which this year will include 66 events and guaranteed prize pools totalling $40 million.
The annual series will start September 7 and run through September 28, kicking off with a $109 buy-in NLHE event and two $215 buy-in no-limit hold'em events that include a Sunday Million special tournament with $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool.
The $5,200 buy-in Main Event this year carries a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million will take place September 28-29.
Tournament observers expect this year's WCOOP to surpass the 2013 edition, which featured a similar number of events and guarantees, but at the end of the day delivered total pay-outs of $62 million as the number of entrants soared 15 percent to 144,945.
As usual, the company is running a number of online qualifiers for the various events, with buy-ins as low as a $1.
In related news, another Pokerstars tournament – the WCOOP Challenge Series – captured the headlines with a big win in the main event earlier this week.
The Challenge consisted of 9 events culminating in the $2,100 buy-in main event with re-entries allowed, with US-Canadian player Grayson "gray31" Ramage emerging victorious to claim over half-a-million dollars in prize money after a close heads up with Denmark's Andreas "Hoegh93" Hogo.
Ramage took the game after re-entering, one of 256 players who availed themselves of that opportunity in a field of 1,243, generating a prize pool of $2,998,000.
Six of the nine players at the final table benefited from a second entry investment.
The final table payments looked like this:
Grayson Ramage $502,165
Andreas "Hoegh93" Hogo $367,255
Guyguy12 $277,315
Kyle "weekesy333" Weekes $203,864
Andreas Christoforou $146,902
GR8MIND $116,922
Ssick_OnE $86,942
Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski $56,962
Matias "Festivuss" Grebanja $30,879

Online Casino News Courtesy of Infopowa

Brian Cullingworth

Infopowa news was a staple of Casinomeister’s news from 2000 until 2019. Brian Cullingworth was the main writer, contributor, and was one of the most knowledgeable persons I have ever known involved in the online casino industry.

We first met in January 2001 at the ICE in London where I observed him going booth to booth interviewing online casino, software, and licensing jurisdiction representatives. Brian was also heavily involved with our forum as “Jetset“, he was involved as an informal consultant to eCOGRA, the OPA, and was a player advocate who assisted countless aggrieved players with his connections to industry folks. He also published “Casino Cautions” via Infopowa news for quite a number of years. These can be found in our news archives.

His passing in February 2019 was a dark day for us. He will be forever missed.


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