Many players called Sunday “the biggest day in online poker.” Yes, Sunday had the glamour, the big fields and the high hopes, but let’s face it: Monday was the day that really mattered as the 178 players who survived the first day of the World Championship of Poker (WCOOP) Main Event were back on the [...]

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Negreanu takes on poker blogs
Daniel Negreanu’s newest blog is about, well, poker blogs. Kid Poker [...]

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Sunday was a day for the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) history books. The final two preliminary events turned the Player of the Series race into a nail-biting fight to the finish and the showings of Daniel “djk123″ Kelly and Bertrand “ElKY” Grospellier proved the year of the multiples didn’t end with the World [...]

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The major attraction on this final Sunday of World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) play may have been the Main Event, but what the last of the trio of High Roller Events, Event #44, held its own with the big show when it came to star power. The $10,300 buy-in HORSE event attracted 103 top [...]

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Event #43 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) did not have a $10 million guarantee like the Main Event. Its $215 buy-in paled in comparison to the $5,200 people shelled out for the Main Event. Event #43 did not have the guts and the glory of Event #45, but it did have two [...]

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PokerStars’ final World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Heads-Up event would once again prove to be a marathon affair. Those players who were fortunate enough to make a deep run in Event #41, the $530 buy-in Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha event, were likely squeezing in naps come Rounds 7 and 8 as play dragged into [...]

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Those who thought Friday and Saturday would be the calm before the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event storm were proven wrong as the big guns turned out for the final No Limit Hold’em rebuy event of the series. Event #38, $530 buy-in cubed event offered each of its 1,169 entrants one rebuy [...]

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Short-handed Limit Hold’em is an unusual game. While other forms of Limit have reputations as boring games with not very much action, a short-handed Limit Hold’em table often has players involved in every single hand with their chip counts fluctuating even more than it would in a No Limit Hold’em game.
Just ask PokerStars Pro Andre [...]

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Players who did not get their fill of high stakes action with the short-handed rebuy tournament offered in Event #36 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) were able to turn to Event #37, a $2,100 buy-in 6-handed Pot Limit Omaha Event. Once again, players were drawn in by the prospect of short-handed play [...]

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For the participants in Event #36 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), the tournament would be either a pricey or a profitable venture. The $530 buy-in No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed events featured both rebuys and an add-on, meaning players could easily drop a couple of grand in an attempt to make a run [...]

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It was a day for unusual games at the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) on Wednesday. At first glance, the two events on the agenda looked fairly run of the mill, but upon closer inspection one realized each had a unique twist. For Event #34, a $215 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event, that twist [...]

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To say it was a tough field in Event #33 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) would be like saying Kanye West was not very nice to Taylor Swift at MTV’s Video Music awards. The final five tables of the $1,050 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event was a who’s who of the top online [...]

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It was an afternoon for the non-Hold’em enthusiasts at the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) with some early afternoon Pot Limit Omaha in Event #31 and a little Stud Hi/Lo courtesy of Event #32 just a couple of hours later.
Event #31, a $320 buy-in 6-Handed Pot Limit Omaha event with rebuys, appealed to the [...]

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To win a World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) bracelet is a great accomplishment. To win two puts you in the elite company of just two other people. To win two in the span of a week is just downright impressive.
That is exactly what Ryan “g0lfa” D’Angelo did over the course of Monday night into [...]

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The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) has spent the past week or so winning over players with some exceptional schedules and deep structures. If these quality day-long tournaments were not enough, PokerStars has thrown in several 2-day events, including the most recent Event #28, a $1,050 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event.
The tournament boasted a [...]

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What a difference a day makes. On Saturday the $530 buy-in Heads-Up World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event missed its guarantee by the biggest margin so far. Sunday was a different story altogether, as it once again proved to be the biggest day in the online poker world.  The $215 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Event #26 [...]

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It’s Christmas in September for the high stakes online railbirds of the world—the $25,000 buy-in High Rollers Heads-Up event of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is here. The highest buy-in of the entire WCOOP, it’s the event where even those in the observer chat possess five figure bankrolls, as you have to have [...]

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It would take eleven rounds, 21.5 hours and 1,563 bustouts for the winner to be determined in the $530 buy-in Heads Up No Limit Hold’em Event #24 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). To navigate through such a field is certainly a demanding task, but the winner would be handsomely rewarded with a [...]

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Apparently there are less people in the world that are up for a rousing game of HORSE on Saturday than PokerStars expected. Event #25 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) had 1,180 people pony up $320 to play HORSE, but it was short of the $400,000 guarantee on the event by $46,000. Granted, [...]

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Thursday’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) action started and ended with Event #31, a $215 buy-in No Limit Hold’em with Rebuys event. The tournament got underway at 2:30PM ET and did not wrap up until long after the two tournaments that started after it had determined a winner. It would take until 8:30AM for [...]

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