Value Town: The $55 Buy-in $1.25M Gtd WCOOP Main Event
There’s a little place in the online poker world where massive prizes are available for a small outlay. We like to call this corner of the internet Value Town.
Jump aboard the PokerStars train this weekend because it’s heading straight to Value Town and taking with it a huge $1.25 million guaranteed prize pool for only a $55 ticket. Which tournament is this? WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, NLHE Main Event] is what you need to be looking at.
The $55 buy-in WCOOP Low Main Event is going to be ridiculously larger. PokerStars envisages a monster-sized field, one so big that they’ve made four days available for the tournament!
Day 1 shuffles up and deals at 7:05 p.m. CEST on September 20. Entering this tournament, which we highly suggest you do, sees you receive 25,000-chips and play to blinds starting at 50/100/12a. Those blinds increase every 20-minutes for the first 17-levels before switching to a 15-minute clock thereafter.
Play lasts for 17-levels on Day 1, or approximately six-hours when breaks are taken into consideration. Anyone with even a single chip in front of them at this stage progresses to Day 2.
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24-Hour Late Registration
Late registration is open until Day 2 kicks off, giving you plenty of time to jump into the action. It’s possible to re-enter up to three times while late registration is open.
Day 2 commences at 7:05 p.m. CEST prompt on September 21 and players lock horns and butt heads until only 160 of them remain in contention for the lion’s share of the $1.25 million guaranteed prize pool.
The penultimate day’s action, on September 22, will see excitement reach fever pitch. We’ll have a clearer idea on who the champion will be at the end of Day 3 because it finishes when the nine-handed final table is reached. Like all the other days, Day 3 starts at 7:05 p.m. CEST.
September 23 at 7:05 p.m. CEST is when the nine finalists return for the last time and go all out for glory and what should be a six-figure top prize. A replay of the final table, complete with visible hole cards, will play in the client at a later date, so be careful going nuts with seven-deuce! You play could also feature on PokerStars’ WCOOP coverage on Twitch!
$1.5 million worth of WCOOP tickets up for grabs
Check Out These Satellites
While $55 is quite an affordable buy-in, there are dozens of satellites feeding into the WCOOP Low Main Event. These have buy-ins of $2.20 and $5.50.
The best value of these takes place at 5:05 p.m. CEST on September 20. It is a $2.20 buy-in with 100 x $55 seats guaranteed. One hour and 10-minutes later, a $5.50 buy-in satellite with 200 seats guaranteed takes place, and one hour after that there’s an $11 buy-in satellite with 100 seats guaranteed.
