PokerStars announce $80m guaranteed WCOOP
75 events, $80 million guaranteed, new forms of added value and every Friday is a day off in the 2020 World Championship of Online Poker.
After the biggest summer in online poker history, the traditionally biggest online festival in poker returns - the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP).
$80 million will be guaranteed between August 30 and September 23. There will be 75 events each with three buy-in levels (Low, Medium and High).
In addition to the $80 million guaranteed during WCOOP, at least $200 million overall will be paid out in scheduled tournaments at PokerStars in September.
The WCOOP Main Event will take place from September 20 with a Low ($55), Medium ($530) and High ($5,200) tier. The guarantees will be $1.25 million, $2 million and $10 million respectively.
One new feature this year will be the '2021 Slam Packages'. There will be 15 'Sunday Slam' tournaments which will also award the winner Main Event High entries to the 2021 WCOOP, SCOOP and Stadium Series.
$1.5 million in WCOOP tickets will be awarded in 'WCOOP Sweepstakes'. You get a ticket for the sweepstakes for every WCOOP event you play, the more you play, the more tickets you get.
There will be no WCOOP events on Fridays to give players and in particular those going for the WCOOP Player of the Series a day off every week.
The event is now in the PokerStars client and qualifiers will soon been running around the clock.
