Dates and key events have been announced for this year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), in what will be the 23rd incarnation of PokerStars’ annual flagship tournament series.
Running from September 8 to October 2, WCOOP 2024 will feature an enormous 379 tournaments. These will be split, as is tradition, across three separate buy-in levels, with almost every tournament available in Low, Medium and High versions. Buy-ins will therefore cover an extremely wide range, from $5.50 up to $25K.
Of the 379 tourneys on the schedule, 12 will award the title of World Champion, with accompanying trophies. These will be in the following variants:
- HORSE
- 2-7 Triple Draw
- 6-Max No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE)
- Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) Hi-Lo
- Heads-up NLHE
- Razz
- NLHE Progressive Knockout
- 8-Game Mix
- Badugi
- NLHE Women’s Event
- 6-Max PLO
- NLHE
WCOOP League and 2023 winners’ freeroll make their debuts
Following a similar twist in the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) earlier this year, a new WCOOP League will run throughout the series with six teams competing for bragging rights. These will be captained by PokerStars ambassadors Lex Veldhuis, Ben ‘Spraggy’ Spragg, Fintan ‘easywithaces’ Hand and Parker ‘tonkaaaa’ Talbot, as well as two mystery team captains who will be announced at EPT Barcelona next week.
Players who won a WCOOP event in 2023 will also be invited to an exclusive freeroll on September 14, where $50,000 in series tickets, including Main Event entries, will be awarded. Last year’s winners include the likes of Benny ‘RunGodLike’ Glaser and Patrick ‘pads1161’ Leonard (below), the latter of whom edged out Glaser for the Player of the Series title in the very last tournament.
A number of Women’s events are also on the schedule, including four special tournaments on September 28-29 which will reward winners with £1,200 packages to the £100K GTD Women’s Winter Festival in London this November.
Patrick Leonard won 4 WCOOP titles en route to the Player of the Series win.
Six Main Events take place on September 29
Main Events will run at all three stake levels - and in both NLHE and PLO formats - on the same day, with the High version of each dubbed the ‘World Championship’. Here are the details:
- $109 NLHE WCOOP Main Event-L – $2.5M GTD
- $1,050 NLHE WCOOP Main Event-M – $3,5M GTD
- $10,300 NLHE WCOOP Main Event-H – World Championship of NLHE - $5MGTD
- $109 PLO WCOOP Main Event-L – $200K GTD
- $1,050 PLO WCOOP Main Event-M – $500K GTD
- $10,300 PLO WCOOP Main Event-H – World Championship of PLO - $800K GTO
WCOOP entries can be won for a fraction of the ticket price, with special edition Spin & Go’s available from $0.75, fast track satellites from $2.20 and Power Path step 1 tickets available for free each day, awarded for any real money poker play.
