Tournament Spotlight: WCOOP-48: Progressive KO Sunday Slams at PokerStars
Progressive Knockout tournaments are extremely popular thanks to them making it possible to win large cash sums even if you don��t make it into the money places. A trio of huge PKO tournaments take place at PokerStars this weekend, three WCOOP events with combined prize pools worth a cool $3.5 million.
WCOOP-48 [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam] comes with three buy-in levels. The Low costs $55 to enter, the Medium is $530, while the High commands a $5,200 buy-in. Each comes with a seven-figure guaranteed prize pool: $1 million for the Low and High, and $1.5 million for the Medium.
One thing that stands out for each of these events is the excellent blind structure, which means you won��t be in a position where you��re pushing all-in or folding early on in the tournament.
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WCOOP-48 Schedule and Details
Players in the Low $55 buy-in start with 50,000 chips and play to a 15-minute clock where the blinds begin at 125/250/30a. Late registration is available for the first 3.75 hours and it��s possible to purchase up to three re-entries during this time.
Day 1 shuffles up and deals at 7:05 p.m. CEST on September 13 and continues for 7.75 hours. Anyone who survives the day returns to the action on Day 1 returns to their seats at 7:05 p.m. CEST on September 14. Play here continues until only 24 players remain in the hunt for the title. Day 3, the final day, begins at 7:05 p.m. CEST prompt on September 15.
It is a similar story in the $530 Medium although there are a handful of difference. Starting stacks are 100,000-chips and blinds start at 250/500/60a, rising every 20-minutes. Late registration is open for 4.75 hours and only two re-entries are permitted.
Day 1 ends after 7.75 hours of play with Day 2 concluding when the field has been whittled down to a more manageable 16 players. There��s also a Day 3; all start times are the same as the $55 Low event.
The $5,200 High WCOOP-48 will be a star-studded affair to say the least. Some of the game��s elite grinders will sit down with 250,000-chips and play to a 20-minute clock where blinds start at 1,200/2,400/300a.
Late registration here is open for 5.5 hours and two re-entries are allowed before registration slams shut. This is a two-day event with Day 1 finishing when the tournament reaches the money places. The final day gets underway at 7:05 p.m. CEST on September 14, continuing until one man, or woman, has all the chips in play.
There are dozens of satellites into this trio of PKOs, as you��d expect from PokerStars. $2.20 is the cheapest you can get in for. Imagine turning $2.20 into a WCOOP title and a bankroll-filling prize. You and only you can make that happen.
$1.5M Of Prizes Guaranteed in the WCOOP Sweepstakes
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