{"id":5486,"date":"2023-09-27T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2023-09-27T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:00:31","slug":"2023-wcoop-main-events-will-run-on-pokerstars-from-oct-1-with-12-5m-in-gts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/2023-wcoop-main-events-will-run-on-pokerstars-from-oct-1-with-12-5m-in-gts","title":{"rendered":"2023 WCOOP Main Events Will Run From Oct 1 With $12.5M In GTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/pokerstars-wcoop.jpg\" alt=\"Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker\" width=\"300\" title=\"2023 WCOOP Main Events Will Run On PokerStars From Oct 1 With $12.5M In GTS\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/pokerstars-wcoop.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/pokerstars-wcoop-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The three NLHE Main Events get underway on October 1<\/li>\n<li>The trio of tournaments is headlined by the $10,300 buy-in Main Event<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s $12.5 million in total guarantees on offer across all three events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/benny-glaser-extends-coop-record-after-winning-sixth-title-at-2023-wcoop\">2023 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) in full swing<\/a> on <strong>PokerStars<\/strong>, all eyes are on the trio of Main Events which kick off on October 1. This falls on a Sunday, the busiest day of the week for online poker players. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wcoop-main-events-begin-on-oct-1\">WCOOP Main Events Begin on Oct. 1<\/h2>\n<p>This year, all three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/blog\/rise-of-texas-holdem\">NLHE<\/a> Main Events on the WCOOP schedule begin at 5:30 p.m. BST on October 1. Players may choose from buy-ins of $109 (L), $1,050 (M), and $10,300 (H). <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s <strong>$12.5 million guaranteed across all three tournaments<\/strong>, with the high edition featuring $6 million in guaranteed prize pool. This $10,300 buy-in tournament is expected to attract the most attention, with the winner set to take home a seven-figure payout which has been the case since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the <em>$10,300 NLHE Main Event<\/em> start the action with a 250,000 chip stack played to 30-minute levels. Day 1 concludes at level 15 and play resumes on Day 2 on October 2 until just 40 players are left. Day 3 is scheduled for October 3, with the finale set for October 4. <\/p>\n<p>As usual, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/mobile-poker\/pokerstars-mobile-app-review\">PokerStars<\/a> is giving everyone the opportunity to enter the tournament for a fraction of the price via satellites starting at $0.55, with tickets also up for grabs through the Power Path promotion. <\/p>\n<p>PLO fans will also have their own Main Events to enjoy, all three of them getting underway on October 1 as well.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"previous-winners-of-wcoop-nlhe-main-event\">Previous Winners of WCOOP NLHE Main Event <\/h2>\n<p>The NLHE Main Event has always been the cream of the crop of the WCOOP series each year since its debut in 2002. The first-ever WCOOP Main Event champion was a player who went by the name <strong>\u201c<em>MultiMarine<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>. That player took down the inaugural Main Event for $65,450. That year, the tournament cost just $1,050 to enter. <\/p>\n<p>From 2004-2006, PokerStars upped the buy-in to $2,600 before doubling it to $5,200 from 2008 through 2021. In 2022, the operator set a new buy-in of $10,300 for the main highlight of the series and it was won by <strong>Luis \u201c<em>luis faira<\/em>\u201d Faria<\/strong> for $1,293,825.<\/p>\n<p>The largest top prize awarded thus far in the WCOOP Main Event was won in 2011 by <strong>Tyson \u201c<em>POTTERPOKER<\/em>\u201d Marks<\/strong>. That year, the tournament attracted 2,443 entrants to generate a massive $12,215,000 prize pool. Marks walked away with the largest slice worth $2,278,097.<\/p>\n<p>German poker superstar <strong>Fedor Holz<\/strong> also has a WCOOP Main Event title to brag about. He earned it in 2014 with a $1,300,000 top prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The three NLHE Main Events get underway on October 1 The trio of tournaments is headlined by the $10,300 buy-in Main Event There\u2019s $12.5 million in total guarantees on offer across all three events With the 2023 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) in full swing on PokerStars, all eyes are on the trio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2023 WCOOP Main Events Will Run From Oct 1 With $12.5M In GTS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the 2023 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) in full swing on PokerStars, 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