WCOOP 2009
The World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) starts today with a $215 buy-in 6-max event that is guaranteed up to 6,250 players. Pretty impressive guarantee for a Thursday afternoon if you ask me. Forty-five events will take place over the course of the next eighteen days. I’ll play in all of the Sunday NLHE events and probably like 5-8 other events, including today’s. Here’s the WCOOP schedule for anyone interested.
I hadn’t planned on playing quite as many events, but I ran well in the big Sunday $10 rebuy a few days ago and took 5th for close to $5,000. I love the ante structure in that tournament. The antes are like 1/3rd the size of the small blind, so it makes raising with a high frequency more sensible than it usually is. I got really lucky at the final table though. With nine players left, doubledave22 raised UTG while I was holding Ace-Queen in the big blind. As soon as he raised, I told myself “ugh, I really should probably fold here,” but for some stupid reason as soon as the action got to me I shoved all-in and he snap-called with Ace-King. I hit a Queen on the flop and another one on the turn to make the King on the river harmless. The difference between 9th and 5th was like $3,800 which is basically all of my WCOOP buy-ins. Gotta love tournament poker!
I’ve got a prop bet with Leif Force today that there will be under 6,417 players in WCOOP #1. The tournament starts in an hour and there’s 3,800 players registered. So far I think our line looks pretty close, but when we made the bet I actually thought it was just a $1 million guarantee (turns out it’s $1.25 million), so I think I like his side a little better.
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