How to Win Your Way into the PokerStars WCOOP Main Events

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Sep 21, 2024 4 min read Last updated Sep 26, 2024

The 2024 PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Events are only a week away, with all three No-Limit Hold'em versions commencing at 5:30 p.m. BST on September 29. This means time is rapidly running out if you want to win your way into these huge tournaments and become a WCOOP champion.

Satellites for WCOOP 108-L: $109 NLHE Main Event - $2.5M Gtd

The $109 low edition of the 2024 WCOOP NLHE Main Event boasts a $2.5 million guarantee on its prize pool, so PokerStars needs 2,500 bums on seats for that princely sum to be reached. With that in mind, the PokerStars lobby is crammed full of cut-price satellites feeding into the $109 WCOOP Main Event, including a monster-sized one on September 22.

At 6:05 p.m. BST on September 22, one of the best-value satellites PokerNews has seen shuffles up and deals. The WCOOP 108-L Main Event Marathon Sat only costs $11 to enter, yet at least 100 PokerStars players will secure their seat in the $109 WCOOP NLHE Main Event; that's $10,900 worth of seats waiting to be won.

Check Out This Crazy WCOOP Satellite ROI; $1.50 into $68,000!

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Although $11 is at the more affordable end of the buy-in spectrum, feeder satellites costing only $1.10 run around the clock, allowing even more players to get into the thick of the action.

The 100-seat guarantee is the biggest of the $109 WCOOP NLHE Main Event satellites, but several more have a prize pool of 50 seats. These also cost $11 and run at 6:05 p.m. BST every day until September 26.

Upcoming Satellites to the $109 WCOOP NLHE Main Event

Other seat-awarding satellites cost $2.20 and $5.50, but the $11 editions mentioned above represent the best value, in our opinion.

Turn $55 Into a WCOOP 108-M: $1,050 NLHE Main Event - $3.5M Gtd Seat

The $1,050 buy-in version of the 2024 WCOOP NLHE Main Event is out of reach for many PokerNews readers, which is why PokerStars is hosting dozens of $55 satellites that award seats into the $3.5 million guaranteed affair.

Every evening at 8:05 p.m. BST, a $55 buy-in satellite kicks off that guarantees at least two $1,050 WCOOP NLHE Main Event seats. If you find the $55 buy-in is too steep, $5.50 feeders are available, and $0.55 buy-in satellites feed into those. Turning a $55 satellite into a $1,050 seat would be amazing, but imagine if you turned $0.55 into a shot at a $3.5 million guaranteed prize pool.

Grind Your Way Into the Huge $10,300 WCOOP NLHE Main Event

WCOOP 108-H: $10,300 NLHE Main Event doubles up as a Championship Event and carries a gargantuan $5 million guaranteed on its prize pool. Last year's $10,300 NLHE Main Event saw Ivan "ILS007" Stokes walk away with $1,047,257 after navigating his way past 599 opponents. That could be you in 2024.

Few players have the bankroll required to flick in $10,300 but you don't need that much money, thanks to PokerStars' satellites. A $1,050 buy-in satellite runs every day, until September 24, at 7:40 p.m. BST, with at least two $10,300 seats in its prize pool.

You might want to check out the WCOOP Fast Track, a four-step satellite system you can buy into at any stage. If you win at one step, you'll receive a ticket to the next highest, right up until you win a Step 4 and bag yourself a $10,300 WCOOP NLHE Main Event seat. Those steps are:

• Step 1 - $2.20 MTT on Demand
• Step 2 - $22 MTT On Demand
• Step 3 - $215 Multi-Table Tournament
• Step 4 - $1,050 Multi-Table Tournament

Spin & Go to a WCOOP Main Event Seat

WCOOP edition Spin & Go tournaments are still available if you prefer this action-packed format. They come in $0.75, $4, and $20 buy-in versions, with the jackpot being a $1,050 WCOOP ticket in the $0.75 edition and a $10,300 WCOOP ticket in the $4 and $20 buy-ins.

$0.75 WCOOP Spin & Go Payouts

$4 WCOOP Spin & Go Payouts

$20 WCOOP Spin & Go Payouts

Now is the Time to Redeem Your Power Path Passes

Last but certainly not least, we have the Power Path route. Now is the time to redeem your Power Path passes if you have been holding onto them for a rainy day.

You can use your Bronze Pass to enter the $109 WCOOP NLHE Main Event, while a WCOOP Main Event Ticket Bundle is available of you redeem a Silver Pass. That bundle sees PokerStars put two $1,050, and two $109 WCOOP Main Event tickets in your account along with eight $22 WCOOP tickets.

Should you be lucky enough to have a Gold Pass laying dormant in your account, it is redeemable for a $10,300 WCOOP NLHE Main Event ticket and a shot at a prize pool guaranteed to be at least $5 million.

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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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