As many online poker players and poker pros get ready for the upcoming World Series of Poker they may forget to compete in the European Championship of Online Poker which begins today. The ECOOP is offering competitors even more money than ever before with $4.5 million in guaranteed prizes over fourteen events.
Daily tournaments will take place over the next two weeks with the first event kicking off today. Players can begin the poker series by competing in the $200 plus 15 No Limit Hold’em event which has a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000.
Each day offers a different tournament with a different guaranteed prize pool. The lowest prize pool will a guaranteed $50,000 and the largest prize pool will be during the Main Event for $1.5 million. The Main Event will take place on June 7th and will have a buy-in of $1,500 plus $80.
The ECOOP started by in 2007 at Titan Poker with $2.5 million in prize money offering over the series ten day period. So in just a few short years the tournament had grown to offer more events and larger prize amounts. Schedule of Events for ECOOP IV
5/25/2009 Monday No Limit Hold’em $200+$15 $250,000
5/26/2009 Tuesday Limit Hold’em 6 Max $200+$15 $100,000
5/27/2009 Wednesday No Limit Hold’em Turbo R/A $100+$9 $200,000
5/28/2009 Thursday Limit 7 Card Stud $250+$18 $50,000
5/29/2009 Friday No Limit Hold’em $750+$50 $350,000
5/30/2009 Saturday PL Omaha (6 Max) 1 Rebuy $1000+$60 $150,000
5/31/2009 Sunday No Limit Hold’em $500+$30 $500,000
6/01/2009 Monday No Limit Hold’em $2500+$100 $500,000
6/02/2009 Tuesday PL Omaha Hi/Lo $100+$9 $100,000
6/03/2009 Wednesday No Limit Hold’em (6 Max) $300+$20 $250,000
6/04/2009 Thursday Pot Limit Omaha R/A $100+$9 $150,000
6/05/2009 Friday No Limit Hold’em R/A $100+$9 $300,000
6/06/2009 Saturday Pot Limit Omaha $400+$30 $150,000
6/07/2009 Sunday No Limit Hold’em $1,500+$80 $1,500,000
Titan Poker Press Release:
Titan Poker’s fourth European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP IV) kicks off on May 25.
Avid online poker players from around the world are getting into action at TitanPoker.com’s 14-day, $4.55 Million Guaranteed European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP IV) (http://www.titanpoker.com/ecoop_may_2009.html), which kicks off on May 25.
Qualifying satellite tournaments for the ECOOP IV events are being staged daily at Titan Poker. The ECOOP IV tournaments offer a wide variety of poker games, including Texas No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em, 7 Card Stud, Pot Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo. Poker buy-in amounts vary to meet every player’s budget.
The series culminates with a $1,500,000 Guaranteed Prize Main Event on June 7.
Titan Poker’s first ECOOP series was staged in December 2007 and players competed over ten days for their share of $2,500,000 in cash prizes. In May 2008, ECOOP II was staged with a grand total of $3,600,000 in guaranteed prizes at the ten nights of tournaments. Staged over fourteen days between November and December 2008, the third ECOOP tournament series distributed more than $4,150,000 in prizes to winning online tournament players.
In addition to its exciting online tournaments, Titan Poker also regularly awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known live poker events. This summer, it will be sending players to the World Series of Poker 2009 in Las Vegas and the Asian Poker Tour in Macau.
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