PokerStars' World Championship of Online Poker, the largest-ever online poker series with more than 1.1 million entries, has concluded.
The tournament awarded nearly $100m in prizes during the two-week long schedule of events, comfortably exceeding its advertised guarantee of $70m and surpassing last year's series. The previous prize pool record, $94m, was set in 2017 during PokerStars' Spring Championship of Online Poker.
The tournament also set a record for the number of entries to an online poker tournament, with more than 1.1 million entries from 148,000 unique players representing 140 countries.
WCOOP 2018 offered a 185-event schedule consisting of low, medium and high buy-in levels ranging from $2.20 to $25,000. A total of seven Platinum Passes to the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship, worth around $30,000 each, were also awarded to the winners of headline events. Overall, the series paid out more than 150,000 individual cash prizes and more than $15m in first-place prizes.
