This year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) has come to an end. Let us review the most important results, stats and figures.
On 1 October, the last events of this year’s online world championship ended. WCOOP 2013 featured the second biggest prize pool of the history of the series: players amassed $62,840,167 in prize money in the 66 events, only slightly less than the record amount of $63,157,150 in 2010.
WCOOP prize pools to date are as follows:
WCOOP 2013 – $62,840,167
WCOOP 2012 – $55,522,590
WCOOP 2011 – $47,120,800
WCOOP 2010 – $63,157,150
WCOOP 2009 – $50,058,800
WCOOP 2008 – $39,958,000
WCOOP 2007 – $24,218,600
WCOOP 2006 – $18,674,300
WCOOP 2005 – $12,000,000
WCOOP 2004 – $6,000,000
WCOOP 2003 – $2,700,000
WCOOP 2002 – $730,000
In the contest of nations, Germany surprised the majority of players and professionals by coming in 1st, as most expected Canada to finish on the top. What rocketed the Germans to the first finish was the Main Event, where all top three positions were reached by their players: ‘PlayinWasted’ finished 1st for $1,493,499, ‘Allanon85’ was runner-up for $1,415,235 and ‘SwissCantMis’ came in 3rd for $1,101,835. It is still worth mentioning that the results are greatly distorted by the numerous US pros scattering around several countries, playing from Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico, above all.
The top 10 nations are the following:
1st: Germany – $8,569,275
2nd: Canada – $8,386,139
3rd: United Kingdom – $6,186,608
4th: Russia – $4,798,903
5th: Sweden – $2,781,921
6th: Mexico – $2,211,146
7th: Norway – $1,727,529
8th: The Netherlands – $1,716,611
9th: Brazil – $1,589,134
10th: Malta – $1,379,824
As far as players are concerned, let us take a look first at the Player of the Year contest. Sunday Million winner ‘Sykoen’ took down the leaderboard with 440 points; the Norwegian finished in the money in 16 WCOOP events and played three finales, even though not winning any of them. He scooped in the most points (70) for his performance in Event #27 $215 PLO Turbo (1R1A). In addition to the trophy, ‘Sykoen’ was awarded with a PCA 2014 package, a TCOOP 2014 ticket, a SCOOP 2014 Main Event (M) ticket and a WCOOP 2014 Main Event ticket.
Russian ‘-Rebus1980-‘ finished only 5 points behind the Norwegian, by collecting 17 ITM finishes and playing three finales, also taking down Event #7 $215 NL Draw.
The WCOOP Player of the Year leaderboard top 10 is as follows:
1st: Sykoen (Norway) – 440 points
2nd: Rebus1980– (Russia) – 435
3rd: SunDancerSVK (Slovakia) – 335
4th: WithoutNickk (Russia) – 320
5–6th:GeorgeDanzer (Austria) – 280
5–6th: stevie444 (United Kingdom) – 280
7th: UhhMee (Canada) – 275
8–9th: OMGjonyctt (United Kingdom) – 265
8–9th: V_RouNder (Australia) – 265
10th: NL_Profit (Russia) – 255
The player winning the most in this year’s WCOOP is, of course, Main Event champion ‘PlayinWasted’ and he was accompanied in the finale by another four of the ten top individual winners: ‘Allanon85’, ‘SwissCantMis’, ‘1M.BanKroLL’ and ‘alexandrapau’. The biggest non-Main Even finalist winner was ‘MauriceSch’ – also a German –, who most notably won Event #23 $10,300 NLHE High Roller (8-Max, 2x Chance).
The WCOOP Money List top 10 is seen below:
1st: PlayinWasted – $1,493,997
2nd: Allanon85 – $1,415,238
3rd: SwissCantMis – $1,101,835
4th: 1M,BanKroLL – $600,452
5th: MauriceSch – $533,553
6th: M,nosbocaJ – $484,433
7th: paphiti – $480,101
8th: alexandrapau – $432,628
9th: BrynKenney – $361,318
10th: uri1013 – $327,800
Only a single player managed to win more than one tournament: ‘Yoo4’ from Russia first took down Event #16 $215 PLO 6-Max for $51,796 and then Event #35 $320+R PLO 6-Max for $103,008, showing off an impressive Omaha game.
‘-Rebus1980-‘, ‘BOOOMMMM’, ‘elementx8’, ‘SunDancerSVK’, ‘Sykoen’ and ‘UhhMee’ played the most final tables, each of them making it to three finales. A total of 67 Canadian players appeared at Final Tables, making it the most successful country on this list.
Watch the WCOOP Main Event highlights below:
