World Championship of on line poker

*$5,000 (+$200) buy in

whe did qualifiers start for this and is this the first year?

when*

it's on every year. I think they have been running quali's for a while. There are a whole series of WCOOP tournies run over a week or two with this being the culmination tonight.

I tried a couple of the $2/300 events but no luck

Trouble is if i won a seat to this i'd most probably just unregister & take the $5200

I played some a few years back. Cashed in one or two but nothing massively memorable. Remember nicking a pot off Jennifer Harman.

Cody is having a reasonable run tonight so far.

Yep they're great if you can make a deep run but the fields are tough full of assorted Pro's & the usual dopey Fish

I knocked Bryn Kenney out of a Scoop earlier this year

I played in a 25,000 vpp ($400) satelite to this last year & would've cashed if my KK held against 33 & 66 , it didn't

always the way isn't it. I gave the MTT scene a good bash on tilt before black friday with some success, particularly on mid size rush.

tournies started later then didn't they so if you final tabled it was 6am before you knew it. That plus the variance was enough to put it on the back burner for me.

Are you ever tempted to give the MTT scene a proper crack MC and give the SNG a break, or is it too much of a risk in terms of guaranteed profit?

Would love to play an EPT one day personally.

02/06/2011     FTOPS Event #1     $200.00+$16.00     75/6607     $1,453.54
12/19/2010     MiniFTOPS Main Event     $70.00+$5.00     184/16910     $520.83

probably get a slagging for bragging but just looked myself up on Top Shark. did better than I thought in the FTOPS (which was the WCOOP of the time) - quite suprised.

I gave Mtt's a decent go in 2012 when Sng's went downhill a bit after black Friday & the changes stars made I switched to playing Hyper Turbos & Mtt's , but I can't seem to make them pay

I was $6000 down over the year then pulled it all back late on , I almost final tabled the sunday million but got knocked out 1010 shoved , i call with Aces , 10 Flop , i finished 32nd for $3600 but the guy that knocked me out went onto finish 3rd for around 100k , that was enough for me

I've had some decent Mtt wins but all around the 3k mark

Just not sure poker's profitable at all nowadays Don't , Sng's have turned into break even games & everybody's just playing tons of ultra aggressive volume for r^k*b^ck
I'm finding it all quite depressing tbh

gutting in the sunday million. no doubt you could take a big one down.

i had a win and a 5th for about 4.5k total in the space of a week on FT just before the lock down. Was massive chip leader on the final table (in the 5th place finish) and got beaten by bluff shove to make runner runner straight - i had a set. He wasn't even open ended or up and down - probably the worst beat I have had at any level and cost me about 5k as I would have had a 5:1 chip lead on any other player. Seem to remember throwing my wireless mouse across the room.

Lost a fair bit of it playing cash tbh (not my strong point) and then had £1400 trapped in there for over a year.

*inside or up and down.

the big one plays down to a winner in 1.5 hours

I still made a wage for the year thanks to the hypers

I'll always play the sats & a few Scoop , Wcoop events , i don't find them that tough tbh & know i'm capable of that elusive big win i just find playing regular Mtt's like throwing my wages away

I remember Chilin_Dude had a great year but haven't seen much of him since

James Atkin (epitomized) does very well playing mtt's though

I used to play a fair bit back in the day. Used to play on Crypto and then Boss Media via IPN (charwell). Was pretty easy then. Remember used to be a lovely 50 euro + add on and gtd 25k euro pool. Won that back to back. Made a fair bit of dosh and cashed in a WSOP event in the Caribbean after winning a satellite.

But then the traffic started to slow, guarantees became smaller and then software became available to help the mathmeticians. I am old school when it comes to poker, not a number cruncher.

I am also certain software is juiced now to level the playing field and having a skill advantage counts for very little. You can almost predict runner runners and the 2 out river etc. Fallen out of love with online poker and very rarely play. FT going belly up, sites having been hacked so your hole cards can be seen, collusion and fraud seemingly rife - the margins do not justify the time. Especially on Stars where you have to play for hours only for some bellwhiff to bubble you with 2 outer.

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