PokerStars Releases Tentative 2009 WCOOP Schedule
Leading online poker site PokerStars has released the tentative schedule for this fall��s World Championship of Online Poker. The annual series at PokerStars is the world��s largest online poker series, both in number of players and total prize money. This year��s WCOOP, the eighth rendition of the annual series, stands to be the largest ever. The 2009 WCOOP will run September 3-20, 2009, and include 42 different events, with a total of $40 million in guaranteed prize money.
The highlight of the WCOOP, as always, is the two-day main event, with this year��s WCOOP ME beginning on September 20 and offering a staggering $10,000,000 guarantee. It��s the largest of an incredible 14 WCOOP events offering guarantees of $1,000,000 or more, including two of three separate ��high rollers�� events distributed throughout the schedule. The three ��high rollers�� tourneys �C two NLHE, one H.O.R.S.E. �C offer buy-ins of $10,300 or $25,500 and will likely draw the cream of the poker world.
Another new feature in the 2009 WCOOP schedule are recurring $215 NL Hold��em events, which mirror the standard buy-in for the ever-popular Stars Sunday Million, and are also reminiscent of the repeating $1,500 buy-in NLHE events which have proven so popular at the World Series of Poker.
The complete tentative 2009 WCOOP schedule:
Date Event # Time Buy-in Description Guarantee
9-3 #1 14:30 $215 NL Hold��em (6-max) $1,250,000
9-3 #2 16:30 $215 Razz $290,000
9-4 #3 14:30 $215 Pot-Limit Omaha (6-max) $500,000
9-4 #4 16:30 $215 NL Single-Draw 2-7 (w/ rebuys) $200,000
9-5 #5 12:45 $109 NL Hold��em $1,000,000
9-5 #6 14:30 $215 NL 5-Card Draw $200,000
9-5 #7 16:30 $215 FL Hold��em $400,000
9-6 #8 12:45 $215 NL Hold��em $1,000,000
9-6 #9 14:30 $10,300 NL Hold��em ��High Rollers�� $2,000,000
9-6 #10 16:30 $530 NL Hold��em (2-day) $3,000,000
9-7 #11 14:30 $320 Mixed Hold��em (6-max) $340,000
9-7 #12 16:30 $215 Pot-Limit Omaha (6-max, 1R/1A) $500,000
9-8 #13 14:30 $320 7-Card Stud $150,000
9-8 #14 16:30 $320 FL Badugi $100,000
9-8 #15 20:00 $1,050 NL Hold��em $500,000
9-9 #16 14:30 $530 NL Hold��em Triple Shootout $500,000
9-9 #17 16:30 $320 8-Game $300,000
9-10 #18 14:30 $530 Pot-Limit Hold��em (6-max) $400,000
9-10 #19 16:30 $320 FL Triple Draw 2-7 $100,000
9-11 #20 14:30 $215 NL Hold��em (w/ rebuys) $1,200,000
9-11 #21 16:30 $530 FL Omaha Hi/Lo $400,000
9-12 #22 14:30 $530 NL Hold��em Heads-Up $1,000,000
9-12 #23 16:30 $320 H.O.R.S.E. $400,000
9-13 #24 12:45 $215 NL Hold��em $1,000,000
9-13 #25 14:30 $25,500 NL Hold��em ��High Rollers�� Match Play $800,000
9-13 #26 16:30 $1,050 NL Hold��em (2-day) $3,000,000
9-14 #27 14:30 $320 Mixed (PLO/PLHE) $400,000
9-14 #28 16:30 $320 NL Hold��em (Second Chance) $800,000
9-15 #29 14:30 $320 Pot-Limit Omaha (w/ rebuys) $700,000
9-15 #30 16:30 $530 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo $200,000
9-15 #31 20:00 $1,050 NL Hold��em $500,000
9-16 #32 14:30 $215 NL Hold��em (big antes) $500,000
9-16 #33 16:30 $320 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo $500,000
9-17 #34 14:30 $530 NL Hold��em 6-max (w/ rebuys) $1,000,000
9-17 #35 16:30 $2,100 Pot-Limit Omaha (6-max) $600,000
9-18 #36 14:30 $530 NL Hold��em (1R/1A) $1,000,000
9-18 #37 16:30 $1,030 FL Hold��em (6-max) $400,000
9-19 #38 14:30 $530 Pot-Limit Omaha Heads-Up $500,000
9-19 #39 16:30 $2,100 8-Game $400,000
9-20 #40 12:45 $215 NL Hold��em $1,000,000
9-20 #41 14:30 $10,300 H.O.R.S.E. ��High Rollers�� $1,000,000
9-20 #42 16:30 $5,200 NL Hold��em Main Event (2-day) $10,000,000
