Key Takeaways
- This year’s WCOOP will guarantee over $50 million in prizes, an increase of more than $5 million on last year.
- The leaderboard has also seen an increase. Last year $53,000 was paid out to the top performers; this year $70,000 in earmarked for prizes.
- Signature WCOOP bracelets and the Second Chance events have been eliminated this year.
PokerStars has posted the finalized schedule for the 2016 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), the operator’s flagship high buy-in tournament series scheduled for this September.
As was first revealed last week when a tentative schedule was posted, the 2016 edition includes dozens of tweaks and changes from last year.
