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WCOOP Event #32 $10,300 HORSE

09/29/08

Event #32 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $10,300 HORSE, an event sure to attract highly skilled players with large bankrolls. A total of 125 players entered the tournament to prove their poker aptitude and win a large amount of cash. In the end it would be DocHolatchya who would survive the gauntlet to capture the title.

The first elimination of the final table would [...]

WCOOP Event #31 $1,050 Limit Holdem

09/29/08

Event #31 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $1,050 Limit Holdem and 580 players signed up for a shot at grabbing a chunk of the $580,000 prize pool. Aasezz had put up a great fight to survive at the final table, and would gain momentum as he survived all the way to a first place finish. PokerStars was well represented in the money as Chris Moneymaker [...]

WCOOP Event #30 $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha

09/29/08

Event #30 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha and 742 players paid to compete in the event and prove their skills at the game of Omaha. In the end it would be salamandra24 who would win the tournament and earn a WCOOP bracelet.

Stryoben33 was the short stack upon entering the final table and was the first to exit. Styroben33 shoved [...]

WCOOP Event #29 $530 No Limit Holdem With Rebuys

09/29/08

Event #29 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $530 No Limit Holdem with Rebuys, and the 852 players who entered also forked over 1,011 rebuys and 658 add-ons to drive the prize pool to over one and a quarter million dollars. PiKappRaider would be the last man standing to collect the first prize of $211,133.76.

Roothlus would exit quickly after the start of the final [...]

WCOOP Event #28 $530 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo

09/29/08

Event #28 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $530 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and 829 players signed up for the chance to win a WCOOP title, and incidentally, a lot of money. The tournament would last more than seventeen hours, when Big10 was crowned the champion.

Porcelet, who also made the final table in event #27, would be the first to leave the final table in [...]

WCOOP Event #27 $530 No Limit Holdem

09/29/08

Event #27 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $530 No Limit Holdem Triple Shootout, an interesting variety of poker where the winner of each table advances to the next round of the tournament. 729 players entered the tournament, and in the end it was TheActionKid who would finish the action by capturing the WCOOP bracelet and the $76,545 first prize.

Tictac was the first to [...]

WCOOP Event #26 $320 6-Max No Limit Holdem

09/29/08

Event #26 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $320 6-Max No Limit Holdem and 3,273 players paid out the buy-in to create a prize pool of close to a million dollars. When all was said and done, it was rubenrtv who would walk away with the first place prize money and the WCOOP bracelet.

BB_ShiNing had been having internet issues and also entered the [...]

WCOOP Event #25 $320 Pot Limit Omaha

09/29/08

Event #25 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $320 Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys. A total of 748 players ponied up the buy-in, along with 1,254 rebuys and 560 add-ons to easily surpass the event’s $500,000 guarantee. The victor would be Shaun Deeb, playing as shaundeeb, who missed a flight to Europe to finish his run in Event #25. It turned out to be a wise [...]

WCOOP Event #24 $530 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw

09/29/08

Event #24 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $530 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw, an event that was just introduced this year and drew a playing field of 308 players. This game requires a lot of nerve and a lot of skill, and luvgamble had both in abundance as he proceeded to take down the tournament.

Borisbäck entered the seven player final table with the [...]

WCOOP Event #23 $530 NLHE

09/21/08

Event #23 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was a $530 No Limit Holdem event with each player allowed one rebuy and one add-on. The prize pool collected buy-ins from each of the 1,159 players along with 807 rebuys and 954 add-ons. In the end it would be ddrufnek who would walk away as the victor.

The short stack, MT456, was the first to fall at [...]