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08-02-2018 , 08:17 AM

dhubermex

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Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,672

"This year there are 182 tournaments spread across 61 events, and tiered buy-in levels for every bankroll (Low, Medium, High, with buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $25,000)."

https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/2...a-175138.shtml

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08-02-2018 , 09:17 AM

FrancisJones

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Haven't they always had Low, Medium and High events?

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08-02-2018 , 09:18 AM

KossuKukkula

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Not in wcoop imo.

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08-02-2018 , 10:12 AM

Sect7G

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Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 11,234

This will increase margins for them... as low stake players will play low stakes and not lose as much to withdrawing players.. etc.

This will be the start of the demise of WCOOP in terms of prestige, where winning a bracelet will soon be on par with winning an FTOPS 27 Event 14.

I'm sure the folks at Stars would like to keep a level of prestige for winning a WCOOP but to keep it that way will cost them money and it's inevitable that the slide will occur.

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08-02-2018 , 10:26 AM

Dadonk612

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Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,044

Don't understand why only a L and H for Main Event though

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08-02-2018 , 02:32 PM

micro dong

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Originally Posted by Sect7G

You play tourneys for the prestige?

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08-02-2018 , 04:54 PM

zoogenhiem

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Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 1,632

Bryan resisted this change for years and years but I think it's a good thing. SCOOP does so well.

The counterargument that I heard was in SCOOP you can player lowerstakes but in WCOOP you play sats which juice up the HS events. This seems much better than miniWCOOP where $3 events take 4 days.

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08-02-2018 , 05:27 PM

R_Webb18

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Originally Posted by Dadonk612

Don't understand why only a L and H for Main Event though

mistake?

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08-02-2018 , 06:04 PM

Josem

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Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 18,190

One of the things that made WCOOP great was the way that it complemented SCOOP and TCOOP as three legs of an annual program. The differentiation was good, with WCOOP being the most prestigious, because it featured the best of the best.

Thus, the SCOOP had the great rags-to-riches stories, while the WCOOP continued the narrative of the elite poker players battling for the highest stakes.

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08-02-2018 , 06:08 PM

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Josem

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This quote from PokerStars a couple of years ago highlighted what I thought was really good about the WCOOP - if you won a World Championship event, you were the world champion of that for a year.

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Originally Posted by BryanS-PS

As for the change [from lower buy-ins] to $2,100 in some genres, each is specifically intended to be the annual Championship for the game type in question. We realize that we'll be losing participation from recreational players who might have joined a $215 or $320 (most of them were $320 last year), but we've chosen to raise the prestige of the events by setting them apart in this way. We're still maintaining the "festival" aspect of WCOOP with more than half of the series being accessible to mass play at buy-ins of $530 or less; there will be no shortage of opportunities for recreational players to get in and win tons of money, but we want to reassert the prestige of WCOOP in some areas.

(my edits to add context in italics)

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08-02-2018 , 06:19 PM

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gamboneee

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its all in italics in a quote

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08-03-2018 , 03:40 AM

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Hero Value

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Lol at "re-asserting the prestige" of it though.
Is there even anything given to the winner of an event this year?

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08-03-2018 , 04:48 AM

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Josem

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Originally Posted by gamboneee

its all in italics in a quote

hah, whoops. I square bracketed it too.

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08-03-2018 , 07:59 AM

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CleanShaven

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Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 234

Laughed when I saw the opening event is a $11 nlh sunday 100k gtd. Stingy gits.

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08-03-2018 , 11:59 AM

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michelle227

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Originally Posted by Hero Value

Lol at "re-asserting the prestige" of it though.
Is there even anything given to the winner of an event this year?

Prestige and a tiny buy-in hardly go together in the first place...

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08-04-2018 , 02:04 AM

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BigBananas

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Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 1,386

the prestigious NLHE $2.20 WCOOP event

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