PokerStars WCOOP Countdown

It’s now just ten days until the start of the most prestigious series in online poker. To help get you in the mood for the upcoming 62 championship events, we’ve prepared some fun facts and figures:

WCOOP 10 Days to Go

• WCOOP ‘10 was the biggest series to date. It featured 141,126 buy-ins and total prize money of $63,157,150. The Main Event was won by Tyson ‘POTTERPOKER’ Marks, who took $2.28M for first place.
• 10^th place in the Main Event is the player eliminated on the final table bubble. In 2025, the unfortunate player was ‘m8675309a’ from the Turks and Caicos Islands - the prize was over $85,000.
• During the ’10 series, three countries cashed 10 times - India, Luxembourg and Malaysia.
• Many notable players have exactly 10 lifetime WCOOP cashes to their name, including Team PokerStars Pros Martin Hruby and Chad Brown. Two of Chad’s cashes have been 10^th place finishes.
• Only four countries have won more than $10M in WCOOP history, that’s the USA, Canada, the UK and Sweden. In addition, Canada has produced 10 WCOOP bracelet winners.
• In WCOOP history there have only been 10 entries from Nigeria and El Salvador.
• The biggest prize awarded in any WCOOP Event 10 was $611,455 in 2025. It was the $10K No Limit Hold’em high roller event won by ‘Sumpas’ from Sweden.
• This year, Event 10 is a $265 PLO Knockout tournament with a guarantee of $225K.
• WCOOP 2025 will be the 10^th annual running of the World Championship of Online Poker!

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WCOOP 9 Days to Go

• The first WCOOP back in 2002 lasted 9 days and consisted of only 9 events.
• Event 9 was the main event in 2002, won by Swedish player ‘MultiMarine’. The buy-in was $1,050 and the first prize was $65,450.
• Notable 9^th place finishers over the years include ElkY, baseball hall-of-famer Orel Hershiser, and former WCOOP Player of the Series winners ‘djk123’ and ‘Andy McLEOD’.
• Nowadays WCOOP is always held in September, the 9^th month of the year. However it started out in July and only moved to September in 2005, where it’s been ever since.
• Germany is the 5^th most successful nation in terms of money won in WCOOP events. German players have cashed for a combined sum of just over $9M.
• Sweden has a small population of only 9M people, and yet they’ve won more WCOOP bracelets than any nation except the USA.
• Only 9 players have achieved the feat of winning multiple WCOOP bracelets. Among them are Team PokerStars Pro ‘Elky’ and Team Online member Anders ‘Donald’ Berg.
• Two countries have exactly 9 WCOOP cashes to their credit, they are Bermuda and Liechtenstein.
• On 9/9/09 Ryan ‘g0lfa’ D’Angelo won the first of his three WCOOP braclets, the field was 999 players.
• WCOOP ’09 saw the debut of 2-7 No Limit Single Draw, the $320 event was won by ‘raydavis77’ for $19,912.
• Event 9 in 2025 is going to be a big one, it’s a $1,050 No Limit Hold’em tournament with a guarantee of $600,000.