PokerStars WCOOP 2015 Breaks Pre-Black Friday Records PokerStars WCOOP 2015 Breaks Pre-Black Friday Records
Key Takeaways
  • The 2015 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) came to an end on Tuesday with the creation of three more PokerStars millionaires.
  • The most remarkable achievement of the series was to create a total prize pool for all 70 of the events of $66,245,305.
  • This was the largest amount paid out in the 14 year history of the WCOOP, and beat the previous pre-Black Friday record of 2010 by more than $3 million.

The 2015 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) came to an end on Tuesday with the creation of three more PokerStars millionaires.

The four-way deal at the final table of the WCOOP Main Event gave three of the players seven figure payouts despite the fact that the event missed its $10 million guarantee. 1,995 players registered, five players short of the target, an insignificant undershoot that left PokerStars well in profit for the event.

The WCOOP also presented the first $51,000 buy-in event ever run online. For that tournament, the $1 million guarantee was easily exceeded as 46 entries produced a prize pool of $2.3 million.