The championship will last 23 days and includes a total of 62 tournaments. Sunday already played the first three.
Sunday September 4 WCOOP have started 2011 with the celebration of the first three events.
PokerStars has planned a calendar of events short, in principle, $ 30 million in prize money guaranteed only by the room itself.
The past year has reached $ 62 million in prize money, but it remains to see how they affect the events of last April, known as Black Friday Poker, the number of players which will outline the various tournaments.
Looking at the first tournament, it does seem that many players who can not play from his residence in the U.S. have decided to hasten their departure to participate in the WCOOP. Daniel Negreanu has announced at the time that would move to Canada after their participation in the World Series to play the WCOOP.
The third in Event # 2 of the WCOOP, the $ 10,300 High Roller No Limit Hold ‘em, Kevin McPhee’ ImaLuckSac ‘is one of these emigrants. He has participated from Vancouver, Canada.
The full results of the first 3 tournaments will not be known until today, because the WCOOP WCOOP # 1 and # 3 are two-day event. Several Spanish still alive in this tournament, already well advanced.
The summary of yesterday is as follows:
WCOOP-1 ($ 215, 6-max No Limit HE, $ 1,000,000 guaranteed)
* Spanish still alive in the tournament: Carlos Lopez ‘djalminha’, ‘j.bauer8′ and ‘melpardo’.
* Spanish Highlights: ‘FrankThomas8′ 55 º $ 2700, Guillermo Garcia ‘Jakivi’ 63 º $ 2555
WCOOP-2 ($ 10.300 High Roller No Limit HE, $ 1,250,000 guaranteed)
* 1 No. Ash Mason ‘DYBYDX’ $ 430,000
* 2nd xrayples $ 310,000
* 3rd Kevin McPhee ‘ImaLuckSac’ 235,000
The Argentine ‘Skilled G’ finished fourth and received a prize of $ 175,000.
Among the 200 participants were three Spanish: Ana Marquez, Javier Dominguez ‘Thalai’ and Raul Mestre ‘Sir_DonaldRM’. None managed to enter prizes
WCOOP-3 ($ 215 No Limit HE, $ 1,250,000 guaranteed)
* Spanish still alive in the tournament, ‘jakofIV’, ‘menut77′, ‘Elb @ ndolero’ STONE63 ‘Rocks_Strato’ zcedrick ‘.
* Other Spanish Highlights: ‘hdezpoker’ 75 º $ 2425, ‘Casadesus’ 108 º $ 1617, Ana Marquez 114 º $ 1526, ‘agresivo_agr’ 118 ° 1414 U.S. dollars, ‘josele83′ 120 ° 1414 U.S. dollars, ‘Joh3nny’ 150 ° 1172 U.S. dollars, ‘yako924′ 164 ° $ 1091.
In the other Sunday tournament, four players exceeded national award five figures ‘tua133′ won the $ 55 R ($ 22,666), ‘gattuso83′ finished second in the 11 R ($ 10,715), Professor Alex Sanchez EducaPoker ‘alex4ever’ was third in the Sunday Supersonic, $ 215 ($ 18,761) and ‘GusanoZ’ finished second in the 109R, with a prize of $ 56,015.