Key Takeaways
- The major September online poker festivals all came to head over weekend, with Main Events across the top three online poker rooms in the industry all surpassing their guarantees.
- By far the largest on Sunday was the Main Event of PokerStars’ WCOOP: A $5000 buy-in tournament with $10 million in guaranteed prizes and $1.5 million assured for first.
- On Sunday, partypoker hosted both the Heavyweight and High Roller Main Events of its Powerfest series, and both easily covered their guarantees.
The major September online poker festivals all came to head over weekend, with Main Events across the top three online poker rooms in the industry all surpassing their guarantees.
This summer saw the major online poker operators pull out all the stops in tournament numbers. WCOOP is bigger than ever, partypoker’s Powerfest grew once again, and 888’s Super XL also bumped up the guarantees.
All three ended their runs at the weekend with Main Events in many cases bigger than ever before.
