WCOOP 2024: PokerStars Revealed Series GTD And More

By Mrinal Gujare

23 Aug 2024

Mrinal Gujare 23 Aug 2024

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The much-awaited 23rd edition of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) was announced by PokerStar sometime ago. But now the poker brand has revealed the series guarantee and more key details.

WCOOP 2024 will run from September 8 to October 2, with over $80 Million in guaranteed prize pools. For the third consecutive time PokerStars kept the $80 Million guarantee intact for the online series.

This year, the series has listed 379 tournaments, which make the latest edition the largest in terms of events offered by PokerStars.

WCOOP 2024 Highlights

Event Duration: September 8 to October 2
Total Guaranteed Prize Pool: $80 Million
Number of Tournaments: 379
Buy-ins: $5.50 to $25,000
Championship Events: 12
Main Events Guarantee: $10+ Million
Leaderboard prize pools: $100,000

The WCOOP 2024 tournaments fall under three categories —Low, Medium, and High with buy-ins ranging between $5.50 - $25,000.

WCOOP 2024 has 12 Championship events, such as No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE), Heads-Up NLHE, 6-Max NLHE, Women’s NLHE, 2-7 Triple Draw, 6-Max PLO, NLHE PKO, and more.

The Main Events in the highly anticipated series will kick off on September 29, with buy-ins of $109, $1,050, and $10,300 for NLHE and PLO formats.

The NLHE Main Events offer a prize pool of $10.5 Million. There is a $5 Million GTD for the World Championship of NLHE for a $10,300 buy-in.

The PLO Main Events will come with a guarantee totalling up to $1.5 Million, with the World Championship of PLO putting $800,000 on the table.

WCOOP 2024 will also see Mystery Bounty tournaments added to the schedule for the first time. Winners of the four Women’s Events will also get £1,200 each in prize packages. These packages will allow the champion to enter the marquee £100,000 GTD Women’s Winter Festival. This event will be hosted at London’s Hippodrome Casino from November 1 to 24.

WCOOP 2024: Qualifiers

PokerStars made sure players don’t stay away due to bankroll issues and have qualifiers to heavy-duty tournaments. The Power Path qualification system is available, which allows players to win Silver and Gold WCOOP bundles.

These bundles are valued at $2,500 and $10,300, respectively. PokerStars has also listed a bunch of satellites in its series schedule covering the Main Events as well.

Fast Track satellites start from $2.20 while WCOOP edition Spin & Go tournaments are listed for as low as $0.75.

WCOOP 2023 champion will be able to play an exclusive freeroll on September 14. Here, the players will also get $50,000 in complimentary series tickets.

Just like the SCOOP league, WCOOP will also offer its own league where six teams will compete. These teams will be led by PokerStars ambassadors like Lex Veldhuis, Ben Spragg, Fintan Hand, and Parker Talbot.