World Championship Of Online Poker Announced For September - 07-07-08

July 7 - PokerStars.com will host the seventh annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), starting September 5th with a record total guarantee of $30 million - which is more than double that of  last year.

The WCOOP is one of hte biggest online poker events on the calendar and will host a massive total og 33 individual tournaments. Game formats will include Hold'em, Omaha, Stud, Razz and of cpourse HORSE.

There will be a $10,300 High-Roller No-Limit Hold'em, Eight-Game Mixed tourney, a Four-Max No-Limit Hold'em tourney, Mixed Hold'em, PLO with one rebuy, one add-on, a $25,500 High-Roller Heads-up No-Limit Hold'em, and much more.

Some of the prize pools are expected to exceed $2 million and millions of players are expected to compete..

WCOOP will run for 16 days, starting September 5th with the $215 buy-in NL Hold'em tournament, and culminating in the $10,000,000 guaranteed NL Hold'em Main Event, which will take place on September 21st and 22nd. Last year's Main Event champion won more than $1.3 million

As usual, there will be cheap satellites for all the events, giving players from all walks the opportunity to participate.

A complete event schedule is available on the Pokerstars website.

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