The 2005 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 15 events with a total prize pool of over $12 Million.

The events, buy-ins, and winners are listed below. The 2004 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 12 events with a total prize pool of over $6 Million. The 2003 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 11 events with a total prize pool of over $2.7 million. The 2002 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of nine events with over $730,000 in combined prizes. Since then, PokerStars has discontinued awarding bracelets to save costs. In addition to the cash prize, the winner of each WCOOP event received a personally engraved 14 karat gold bracelet from PokerStars up until 2015. 2-7 Single Draw and mixed limit games were added in 2008, and Badugi was added in 2009. In 2007, 5 Card Draw and 2-7 Triple draw were added. The games featured are Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit Texas Hold'em, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo, Razz, Pot Limit Omaha High and Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, and H.O.R.S.E.

Keeping with the tradition of the World Series of Poker, the WCOOP is a series of tournaments in which players compete in a variety of different poker games, each with different buy-in and prize levels. The fifteen WCOOP events in 2005 generated $12,783,900 in prize money, making it not only the biggest ever online poker event, but the third biggest poker series (live or online) in all of 2005. The WCOOP tournament series is the largest of its kind on the Internet. It is played on the PokerStars website in September.Įstablished in 2002, WCOOP is PokerStars' attempt to establish the online equivalent of the World Series of Poker. The World Championship of Online Poker ( WCOOP) is an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) You can help by converting this article, if appropriate. This article is in list format but may read better as prose.

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