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The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP 2024) is back in September…
The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) — the world’s longest-running and premier online poker series — returns for its 23rd edition this year.
These are the dates to mark on your calendars right now:
Sunday, 8th September to Wednesday, 2nd October, 2024.
That means incredible WCOOP action for 25 days. The WCOOP Main Events will begin on Sunday, September 29, but check out the full schedule below.
123 events. 379 tournaments. Buy-ins from just $5.50 up to $25,000.
A whopping $80 million​ guaranteed.
WCOOP 2024 SCHEDULE
ABOUT THE 2024 SERIES
Twenty-two years after its first running, WCOOP remains the online tournament series that still gets the pulse racing faster than any other. Ask online players for their ambitions, and a WCOOP title is still at the top.
Few could have predicted when PokerStars players first contested WCOOP in 2002, that it would still capture the imagination more than two decades later. Through those first 22 years, players accounted for more than 8.8 million entries and 2,445 champions were crowned from more than 70 countries. In prize money terms that added up to just shy of $1.3 billion.
Online titles don’t get more prestigious or more significant than a WCOOP crown — but these tournaments are open to anyone. Buy-ins start at only $5.50, with numerous ways players can qualify for higher buy-in events for a minimal outlay.
WCOOP 2024 KEY INFO:
Dates: 8 September – 2 October, 2024
Events: 123
Tournaments: 379
Buy-ins: $5.50 – $25,000
Total guaranteed: $80 million
The winner of every WCOOP 2024 event will also win a stunning trophy to commemorate the achievement.
$100,000 in prizes across WCOOP Player of the Series Leader Boards:​
There are $100,000 in prizes across the Low/Medium/High Leader Boards, and the Overall Player of the Series (the coveted Player of the Series Leader Boards will use results from all WCOOP buy-in tiers).​
Please Note: players in Sweden, Germany and Belgium are ineligible for leader board prizes due to regional regulations.
MORE ABOUT WCOOP:
YEAR-BY-YEAR GUIDE | COMPLETE RESULTS | MULTIPLE CHAMPIONS
4 WOMEN’S WINTER FESTIVAL PACKAGES ADDED
As if becoming a WCOOP champion wasn’t enough incentive to play the four Women’s tournaments on the schedule, PokerStars is also adding four packages to the Women’s Winter Festival in London this November.
The winners of the four WCOOP Women’s events (shown below) will win a £1,200 package that includes the £400 Main Event buy-in, three nights in a hotel, plus expenses.
The Women’s Winter Festival takes place at London’s iconic Hippodrome Casino from November 21-24, 2024, headlined by a £400 buy-in Main Event boasting £100,000 in guaranteed prizes before a single registration.
There will also be plenty of side events offering participants a thrilling and competitive environment, not to mention tons of off-the-table fun. One such side event is the unique 50/50 male and female event, ensuring there’s something for everyone to get involved.
Here’s a look at those WCOOP 2024 Women’s Events:
Saturday, 28 September
WCOOP Women’s World Championship – $215 NLHE, $20K Gtd – 12:30ET
Sunday, 29 September
WCOOP 109-L: $5.50 PKO Women’s Event, $2.5K Gtd
WCOOP 109-M: $22 PKO Women’s Event, $7.5K Gtd
WCOOP 109-H: $109 PKO Women’s Event, $15K Gtd
Read more about the Women’s Winter Festival here.
USE POWER PATH TO PLAY WCOOP
Did you know you can use your Power Path tickets to play WCOOP events?
You can now play for WCOOP Silver and Gold Pass bundles with Power Path. Worth $2,500 and $10,300, these bundles will be stuffed full of WCOOP tickets so you can enjoy the WCOOP action in style. As always, you can start your Power Path from just $0.50.​
Last year we saw 2,904 cashes in WCOOP and WCOOP Side Event from tickets won via Power Path, totalling an incredible $757K in prizes won.
Get on the Power Path today.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR?
Ivan “ILS007” Stokes won the biggest tournament of the series
The $10,300 WCOOP NLHE Main Event (#98-H) went to Ivan “ILS007” Stokes, and maiden WCOOP titles don’t come much better than this. He battled through 600 entries from the world’s best tournament players and defeated Sweden’s “ShipitFTW911” heads-up to win $1.04 million and the right to call himself the world champion.
WCOOP 98-H: World Championship of NLHE: $10,300 Main Event
1- Ivan “ILS007” Stokes (UK) – $1,047,257
2- “ShipitFTW911” (Sweden) – $765,389
3- Juan “xPastorcitox” Pastor (Argentina) – $559,385
4- Niklas “Lena900” Astedt (Sweden) – $408,827
5- Leonard “Grozzorg” Maue (Austria) – $298,792
6- Jamil “jamil11” Wakil (Canada) – $218,372
7- Kelvin “Kelvin_FP:AR” Kerber (Brazil) – $159,598
8- Mario “livinmydream1” Mosboeck – $116,642
9- Kayhan “KayhanMok” Mokri (Norway) – $94,330
GLASER WINS SEVEN
Already one of the most decorated players in WCOOP history, British mixed games specialist Benny Glaser — known online as “RunGodlike” — went on an incredible tear through this series, winning an unprecedented SEVEN titles.
LEONARD TOPS PLAYER OF THE SERIES
Patrick “pads1161” Leonard builds his entire yearly schedule around these big online poker series, always with the same intention: win titles and the Player of the Series Leader Board.
Job done. He’s absolutely smashed it in WCOOP 2023, winning four events and topping the overall Player of the Series Leaderboard, earning himself an extra $25,000.
WCOOP 2023 STAT TRACKER
Tournaments completed: 340
Entries: 1,026,834 (inc. 244,257 re-entries)
Prize pools: $95,513,197
First-place prizes: $15,660,295 (inc. $3,086,617 in bounties)
Countries Leaderboard final standings:
80 wins – Brazil
40 – UK
19 – Austria
18 – Ukraine
14 – Canada, Norway
13 – Sweden
12 – Finland, Germany, Poland
10 – Mexico
8 – Czech Republic, Hungary
7 – Romania
6 – Argentina, Belarus, Lithuania
5 – Bulgaria, Denmark, Ireland
4 – Andorra, Greece
3 – Estonia, Peru, Thailand
2 – Belgium, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malta, Uruguay
1 – Armenia, Aruba, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, Slovakia, Venezuela, Vietnam.
Dive deeper into last year’s series here.
ALL-TIME WCOOP STATS (2002-2023)
Winners of WCOOP events have banked more than $200 million between them, while just shy of $1.3 billion has been awarded in prize money.
No. of Tournaments: 2,445
Total Entrants: 8,835,603
Total Prize Pools: $1,299,316,484
First Place Prizes: $200,132,701
