The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars. It is played on the PokerStars website in September.

Established in 2002, WCOOP is PokerStars' attempt to establish the online equivalent of the World Series of Poker. The WCOOP tournament series is the largest of its kind on the Internet.

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.

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 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. In 2007, 5 Card Draw and 2-7 Triple draw were added. 2-7 Single Draw and mixed limit games were added in 2008, and Badugi was added in 2009. The main event is No Limit Hold'em.

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. Since then, PokerStars has discontinued awarding bracelets to save costs.

WCOOP Player of the Series Year Country Nickname Name2009djk123Dan Kelly2010Andy McLEODJames Obst20112FLY2TILTJoel Adam Gordon2012mikal12345Mikal Blomlie2013SykoenYngve Steen2014Mr NegreanuAlan Gold2015shaundeebShaun Deeb2016SixthSenSe19Fabrizio Gonzalez2017ImluckNutsMaksim Pisarenko2018aDrENalin710Denis Strebkov2019calvin7vJussi Nevanlinna2020ZapahzamazkiRinat Lyapin2021raidalotTalal Shakerchi2022RuiNFRui Ferreira2023pads1161Patrick Leonard2024FAL1st2025king153246

WCOOP Main Event winners Date Event Winner Prize Entries Prize pool Jul 28, 2002 $1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event MultiMarine $65,450.00 238 $238,000.00 Aug 17, 2003 $1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event DeOhGee (Joseph Cordi) $222,750.00 891 $891,000.00 Aug 8, 2004 $2,600 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event Ragde (Edgar Skjervold) $424,945.26 843 $2,104,500.00 Sep 18, 2005 $2,600 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event Panella86 (Jordan Berkowitz) $577,342.00 1,494 $3,735,000.00 Oct 1, 2006 $2,600 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event area23JC (J. C. Tran) $670,194.00 2,510 $6,275,000.00 Sep 30, 2007 $2,600 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event ka$ino1 (Kyle Schroeder) $1,378,330.50 2,998 $7,495,000.00 Sep 21, 2008 $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event ckingusc (Carter King) $1,265,432.23 2,185 $10,925,000.00 Sep 20, 2009 $5,200 No Limit Hold'em Main Event Jovial Gent (Yevgeniy Timoshenko) $1,715,200.00 2,144 $10,720,000.00 Sep 26, 2010 $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em [Main Event] POTTERPOKER (Tyson Marks) $2,278,097.50 2,443 $12,215,000.00 Sep 25, 2011 $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em [Main Event] Kallllle (Thomas Pedersen) $1,260,018.50 1,627 $8,135,000.00 Sep 23, 2012 $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em [Main Event] maratik (Marat Sharafutdinov) $1,000,907.26 1,825 $9,125,000.00 Sep 29, 2013 $5,200 NL Hold'em Main Event PlayinWasted (David Kaufmann) $1,493,499.15 2,133 $10,665,000.00 Sep 28, 2014 $5,200 NL Hold'em Main Event CrownUpGuy (Fedor Holz) $1,300,000.00 2,142 $10,710,000.00 Sep 27, 2015 $5,200 NL Hold'em Main Event Coenaldinho7 (Kristof Coenen) $1,300,000.00 1,995 $10,000,000.00 Sep 25, 2016 $5,000 NL Hold'em Main Event llJaYJaYll (Jonas Lauck) $1,517,541.25 2,091 $10,052,879.79 Sep 24, 2017 $5,200 NLHE [Main Event] SvZff (Steven van Zadelhoff) $1,624,502.27 2,183 $10,915,000.00 Sep 16, 2018 $5,200 NLHE [Main Event] eze88888 (Ezequiel Waigel) $1,529,000.00 2,044 $10,220,000.00 Sep 22, 2019 $5,200 NLHE [Main Event] BigBlindBets (Charles Russell) $1,665,962.04 2,236 $11,180,000.00 Sep 20, 2020 $5,200 NLHE [Main Event] PTFisherman23 (Andre Marques) $1,147,270.86 1,977 $10,000,000.00 Sep 12, 2021 $5,200 NLHE [Main Event] CrazyLissy $1,499,942.00 1,965 $10,000,000.00 Sep 25, 2022 $10,300 NLHE [Main Event] luis_faria (Luis Faria) $1,293,825.00 760 $7,600,000.00 Oct 01, 2023 $10,300 NLHE [Main Event] ILS007 (Ivan Stokes) $1,047,257.00 600 $6,000,000.00 Sep 29, 2024 $10,300 NLHE [Main Event] €urop€an (Samuel Vousden) $1,007,058.00 502 $5,020,000.00 Sep 28, 2025 $10,300 NLHE [Main Event] TaxationIsTheft (Gilles Simon) $736,327.00 407 $4,070,000.00

WCOOP multiple event winners

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WCOOP bracelet winners by country (old)

Below is a breakdown of the login countries of all bracelet winners in the history of the WCOOP:

USA - 103 Canada - 80 Russia - 60 United Kingdom - 50 Mexico - 35 Sweden - 31 Norway - 24 Germany - 24 Netherlands - 23 Finland - 17 Australia - 17 Poland - 15 Denmark - 14 Austria - 12 Brazil - 12 Hungary - 11 Belgium - 8 Ukraine - 7 France - 7 Argentina - 7 Bulgaria - 6 Romania - 6 Costa Rica - 5 Ireland - 5 Czech Republic - 5 Greece - 4 Cyprus - 4 Malta - 3 Taiwan - 3 South Africa - 3 Philippines - 1 Slovenia - 1 Kazakhstan - 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1 Uruguay - 1 Chile - 1 Croatia - 1 Armenia - 1

2002 events

The 2002 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of nine events with over $730,000 in combined prizes. The events, buy-ins, and winners are listed below.

Date Event Winner Prize Entries Prize pool Jul 20 $109 Limit Texas Hold'em fingaz (Nik White) $15,537.50 565 $56,600 Jul 21 $265 Pot Limit Omaha High Low Canuck $14,231.25 207 $51,750 Jul 22 $265 Seven Card Stud High Low 55lucky55 (Spiro Mitrokostas) $14,025.00 204 $51,000 Jul 23 $320 No Limit Texas Hold'em michigangirl $23,677.50 287 $86,100 Jul 25 $320 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em MIK22 (Michel Abécassis) $23,677.50 287 $86,100 Jul 26 $530 Limit Omaha High Low –db- (Shae Drobushevich) $20,250.00 135 $67,500 Jul 27 $530 Limit Texas Hold'em kerrdawg $37,537.50 273 $136,500 $109 Limit Texas Hold'em Heads Up lennart $7,680.00 256 $25,600 Jul 28 $1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event MultiMarine $65,450.00 238 $238,000

2003 events

The 2003 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 11 events with a total prize pool of over $2.7 million. The events, buy-ins, and winners are listed below.

Date Event Winner Prize Entries Prize pool Aug 7 $109 No Limit Texas Hold'em Heads Up batoelrob (Rob Hollink) $12,800.00 512 $51,200 Aug 8 $109 Limit Texas Hold'em C.M. Burns $32,525.00 1,301 $130,100 Aug 9 $320 Pot Limit Omaha High Low Lenny (Dan Heimiller) $27,600.00 368 $110,400 Aug 10 $320 No Limit Texas Hold'em Erik123(Erik Sagström) $101,850.00 1,358 $407,400 Aug 11 $320 Seven Card Stud naya $23,512.50 285 $85,500 Aug 12 $530 Pot Limit Texas Hold'em jr50 $68,250.00 546 $273,000 Aug 13 $530 Omaha High Low starkitty $39,750.00 318 $159,000 Aug 14 $530 Seven Card Stud High Low RatPack $38,912.50 283 $141,500 Aug 15 $530 Pot Limit Omaha Big Cy $38,500.00 308 $154,000 Aug 16 $530 Limit Texas Hold'em actiondonkey(Jim Meehan) $78,250.00 626 $313,000 Aug 17 $1,050 No Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event DeOhGee (Joseph Cordi) $222,750.00 891 $891,000

2004 events

The 2004 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 12 events with a total prize pool of over $6 Million. The events, buy-ins, and winners are listed below.