World Championship of Online Poker

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The World Championship of Online Poker , WCOOP for short , is an online poker tournament series . It has been held once a year on the PokerStars platform since 2002 .

history

In 2002, based on the World Series of Poker, the first WCOOP took place on PokerStars . In the meantime, the WCOOP has developed into the largest online poker tournament series. As with the WSOP in Las Vegas , the WCOOP has at least one tournament in every poker variant . In addition to the prize money, the winner of a WCOOP tournament will receive a 14-carat gold bracelet .

The 15 tournaments in 2005 had a total prize pool of $ 12,783,900 . It was the largest online event to date and, in 2005, the third largest tournament series in the world. In 2006 a German player with the nickname F.Briatore won the first bracelet for Germany. In 2007, the variants Texas Hold'em , Omaha Hold'em , Seven Card Stud , Razz and HORSE were played in the various limits and valuation variants (high / low). As with the WSOP, the most expensive tournament was a HORSE tournament with a buy-in of $ 5200. In that year pes4fans won the second tournament for Germany in a $ 320 NLHE shorthanded tournament. At the main event , which had a buy-in of $ 2600, there was a scandal because the actual winner TheV0id ( Mark Teltscher ) had played the tournament with multiple accounts and thus gained a criminal advantage. Two weeks after the main event, he was disqualified by PokerStars and the American ka $ ino was declared the winner.

In 2018, the Dutchman wann2play won the main event, but his account was frozen shortly after his win because his account was being used by another player. In February 2020 the Argentinian Ezequiel "eze88888" Waigel, who actually came second, was named the winner.

Events

Overview

#	year	Tournaments
1	2002	09
2	2003	11
3	2004	12
4th	2005	15th
5	2006	18th
6th	2007	23
7th	2008	33
8th	2009	45
9	2010	62
10	2011	62
11	2012	65
12	2013	66
13	2014	66
14th	2015	70
15th	2016	82
16	2017	81
17th	2018	61
18th	2019	73
19th	2020	75

Main events

JC Tran (left) won in October 2006, Fedor Holz (right) in September 2014

Beginning	Buy-in (in $ )	Attendees	winner	Nickname	origin	Prize money (in $ )
July 28, 2002	1050	0238	unknown	MultiMarine		0.065,450
Aug 17, 2003		0891	Joseph Cordi	DeOhGee		0.222,750
Aug 8, 2004	2600	0843	Edgar Skjervold	Ragde		0.424.945
Sep 18 2005		1494	Jordan Berkowitz	Panella86		0.577,342
Oct 1, 2006		2510	JC Tran	area23JC		0.670.194
Sep 30 2007		2998	Kyle Schroeder	ka $ ino1		1,378,331
21 Sep 2008	5200	2185	Carter King	ckingusc		1,265,432
Sep 20 2009		2144	Yevhen Tymoshenko	Jovial Gent		1,715,200
26 Sep 2010		2443	Tyson Marks	POTTERPOKER		2,278,098
25 Sep 2011		1627	Thomas Pedersen	Kallllle		1,260,019
23 Sep 2012		1825	Marat Sharafutdinov	maratics		1,000,907
29 Sep 2013		2133	David Kaufmann	PlayinWasted		1,493,499
28 Sep 2014		2142	Fedor wood	CrownUpGuy		1,300,000
27 Sep 2015		1995	Kristof Coenen	Coenaldinho 7		1,300,000
25 Sep 2016	5000	2091	Jonas Lauck	IIYesYYesYII		1,517,541
Sep 24 2017	5200	2183	Steven van Zadelhoff	SvZff		1,624,502
16 Sep 2018		2044	Ezequiel Waigel	eze88888		1,529,002
22 Sep 2019		2236	Charles Russell	BigBlindBets		1,665,962
Sep 20 2020

Record winner

space	player	Nickname	origin	number
1	Denis Strebkow	aDrENalin710		9
2	Shaun Deeb	shaundeeb		8th
3	Dan Kelly	djk123		5
4th	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Colisea		4th
	Andrei Saitschenko	Crocodile dill		4th
	unknown	nilsef		4th
	Gleb Tremsin	Ti0373		4th
Status: End of WCOOP 2019

Web links

• Official website of the WCOOP (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Title and bonus revoked: 2018 WCOOP Main Event Champion “wann2play” blown on hochgepokert.com on February 29, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020.
2. ↑ WCOOP Stats on pokerstars.eu, accessed on September 19, 2016 (English).