Last year September 2007 Chris Ferguson managed to achieve a zero to $10,000 challenge. In his experiment Chris started with a fresh newly installed Full Tilt Poker account, and joined several poker freeroll tournaments until he managed to earn some real money which he then used for buy-ins. He used the following rules to help him along the way. Without any deposits Chris managed to earn $10,000 in 16 months of playing online at FullTiltPoker.
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A PokerStars player xanja whom has never made a deposit at PokerStars yet he almost managed to win the Poker Stars million event with this week being the busiest it’s ever been thanks in part to the frenzy brought on by the PokerStars 2X promotion running throughout July where the million dollar event was actually a $2,83 million dollar record breaking tournament.
The World Championship of Online Poker 2008 has been announced by PokerStars the big daddy of online poker tournaments the WCOOP 2008, after the huge success the last event had even though it was surrounded by some controversy, satellites to the main event will be running all summer with satellite qualifiers starting from as little as $2.20 and from just 100 FPP’s there will be multi table satellites, Sit n Go satellites as well as Step qualifiers.
The latter of which are already up and running. MTT satellites are scheduled to begin on 6 July after the Sunday Million event.
The (WCOOP) PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is set to return September 2008 and carries along with it massive guaranteed prize pool of $30,000,000 (thirty million dollars) doubling the prize from the previous year dubbing the event the biggest online poker tournament series in the world ever.
A total 33 events will be held including Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Razz, HORSE, 2 7 Draw. Each event carries it’s own guarantee prize pool with many of the more popular games reaching in excess of $2,000,000.
The series will wrap up on September 21 with a guaranteed main event of $10,000,000.
WCOOP 2008 – PokerStars World Series of online Poker schedule
5th September – 14:30 $215 NL Hold’em [6 max] $1,000,000
5th September – 16:30 $215 PL 5 Card Draw $100,000
6th September – 14:30 $215 Limit Hold’em $300,000
6th September – 16:30 $215 2 7 Triple Draw $100,000
7th September – 14:30 $10,300 HighRoller NL Hold’em $2,000,000
7th September – 16:30 $530 NL Hold’em * $3,000,000
8th September – 14:30 $215 PL Omaha [6 max] $300,000
8th September – 16:30 $320 8 game Mixed Event $200,000
9th September – 14:30 $215 NL Hold’em [4 max] $400,000
9th September – 16:30 $215 Razz $100,000
10th September – 14:30 $320 PL Omaha Hi/Lo $300,000
10th September – 16:30 $320 Mixed Hold’em $300,000
11th September – 14:30 $215 NL Hold’em w/Rebuys $1,000,000
11th September – 16:30 $320 7-Card Stud $100,000
12th September – 14:30 $320 NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] $500,000
12th September – 16:30 $215 PL Omaha [1R1A] $300,000
13th September – 14:30 $530 PL Hold’em [6 max] $400,000
13th September – 16:30 $215 HORSE $300,000
14th September – 14:30 $25,500 HighRoller HU NL Hold’em $1,600,000
14th September – 16:30 $1,050 NL Hold’em * $3,000,000
15th September – 14:30 $530 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo $200,000