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wbcoop2008_header.jpgThe World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is back! Calling all bloggers - it’s time once again for the annual PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! If you play poker and have your own blog, the 2008 WBCOOP is the perfect tournament series for you. This is the event that gives bloggers from across the globe the chance to face off against each other for FREE, win great prizes and battle for the coveted title! More Ways to Win This year we are giving you more chances than ever before to get in on the action. Simply register your blog and you can play in our Freeroll qualifiers, and be in with a shot at winning great prizes and WBCOOP Final seats. Make it to the Final and you’ll have the chance to play for a PokerStars Caribbean Adventureprize package worth $14,300 and European Poker Tourevent packages worth $7,500. We’ll also be giving away free entries into our biggest online tournaments and Steps satellite tickets. In total, we’re paying out $100,000 worth of prizes! See below to find out more about what you can win. The WBCOOP is open EXCLUSIVELY to anyone with an eligible blog site. Once you have registered, you can use your blog to tell all your readers that you’ll be playing in the event - and write a report afterwards about how you took it down! It doesn’t even matter if your blog isn’t about poker - you can still enter. We are running daily Freeroll qualifiers in a range of poker games - open to all registered and verified bloggers. If you’re new to poker, check out our >Poker Games page to learn the rules and get some helpful tips. How to Play For your blog to be eligible, it must have been online for at least two months and updated on a regular basis. Blogs created specifically for this promotion, or that only have a few posts, will not be granted entry to WBCOOP. If you have been eligible in the past for WBCCOP but have not updated your blog on a regular basis since the last event, you will not be eligible to play. All decisions about eligibility rest with WBCOOP management and are final. Visit the registration page to find out how to submit your blog for verification, and get your entry ticket to the freeroll qualifiers. Freeroll Qualifiers The daily Freerolls run from December 15-20 2008, in a range of different poker games. See below for more details and prize information. You can find these events listed in the PokerStars lobby, under the 'Events' and 'Special' tab.
GameDateTime
Pot Limit OmahaDecember 1514:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 1619:00 ET
Omaha Hi/LoDecember 1722:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 1814:00 ET
8-Game MixDecember 1917:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 2015:00 ET
PlacesFreeroll Qualifiers - Prizes Awarded
1stWBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Platinum Package*
2nd-9thWBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Gold Package**
10th-27thWBCOOP Final seat + Step 3 Ticket
28th-45thWBCOOP Final seat + Step 2 Ticket
46th-72ndWBCOOP Final seat
* A Sunday Majors Platinum Package consists of 3 x $215 tournament tickets, 1 x $530 tournament ticket and 1 x $11 tournament ticket. **A Sunday Majors Gold Package consists of 2 x $215 tournament tickets. The WBCOOP Final The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker Final takes place Sunday December 21, at 15:00 ET. Prizes
PlacesWBCOOP Final - Prizes Awarded
1stPokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package - worth $14,300
2ndEuropean Poker Tour± prize package + SCOOP‡ Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $11,100
3rdEuropean Poker Tour± prize package - worth $7,500
4thSCOOP Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $3,675
5thStep 6 ticket - worth $2,100
6thSCOOP Main Event ticket - worth $1,575
7th$1,050 Tournament entry
8thStep 5 ticket
9th$530 Tournament entry
10th-18th$320 Tournament entry
19th-27th$215 Tournament entry
28th-45th $109 Tournament entry
46th-100thStep 3 ticket
WBCOOP 2007 Last year’s event saw more than 1,300 players gather from around the world to compete for the Championship. Portugal’s LParreira walked away the big winner -taking first place and a PokerStars Caribbean Adventure seat worth $12,000! Visit the PokerStars Blog to read a full report of all the action from 2007 and other previous years.
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Blogger Freerolls The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is back! Calling all bloggers - it’s time once again for the annual PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! If you play poker and have your own blog, the 2008 WBCOOP is the perfect tournament series for you. This is the event that gives bloggers from across the globe the chance to face off against each other for FREE, win great prizes and battle for the coveted title! More Ways to Win This year we are giving you more chances than ever before to get in on the action. Simply register your blog and you can play in our Freeroll qualifiers, and be in with a shot at winning great prizes and WBCOOP Final seats. Make it to the Final and you’ll have the chance to play for a PokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package worth $14,300 and European Poker Tour event packages worth $7,500. We’ll also be giving away free entries into our biggest online tournaments and Steps satellite tickets. In total, we’re paying out $100,000 worth of prizes! See below to find out more about what you can win. The WBCOOP is open EXCLUSIVELY to anyone with an eligible blog site. Once you have registered, you can use your blog to tell all your readers that you’ll be playing in the event - and write a report afterwards about how you took it down! It doesn’t even matter if your blog isn’t about poker - you can still enter. We are running daily Freeroll qualifiers in a range of poker games - open to all registered and verified bloggers. If you’re new to poker, check out our >Poker Games page to learn the rules and get some helpful tips. How to Play For your blog to be eligible, it must have been online for at least two months and updated on a regular basis. Blogs created specifically for this promotion, or that only have a few posts, will not be granted entry to WBCOOP. If you have been eligible in the past for WBCCOP but have not updated your blog on a regular basis since the last event, you will not be eligible to play. All decisions about eligibility rest with WBCOOP management and are final. Visit the registration page to find out how to submit your blog for verification, and get your entry ticket to the freeroll qualifiers. Freeroll Qualifiers The daily Freerolls run from December 15-20 2008, in a range of different poker games. See below for more details and prize information. You can find these events listed in the PokerStars lobby, under the 'Events' and 'Special' tab.

GameDateTime
Pot Limit OmahaDecember 1514:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 1619:00 ET
Omaha Hi/LoDecember 1722:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 1814:00 ET
8-Game MixDecember 1917:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 2015:00 ET
PlacesFreeroll Qualifiers - Prizes Awarded
1stWBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Platinum Package*
2nd-9thWBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Gold Package**
10th-27thWBCOOP Final seat + Step 3 Ticket
28th-45thWBCOOP Final seat + Step 2 Ticket
46th-72ndWBCOOP Final seat
* A Sunday Majors Platinum Package consists of 3 x $215 tournament tickets, 1 x $530 tournament ticket and 1 x $11 tournament ticket. **A Sunday Majors Gold Package consists of 2 x $215 tournament tickets. The WBCOOP Final The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker Final takes place Sunday December 21, at 15:00 ET. Prizes
PlacesWBCOOP Final - Prizes Awarded
1stPokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package - worth $14,300
2ndEuropean Poker Tour± prize package + SCOOP‡ Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $11,100
3rdEuropean Poker Tour± prize package - worth $7,500
4thSCOOP Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $3,675
5thStep 6 ticket - worth $2,100
6thSCOOP Main Event ticket - worth $1,575
7th$1,050 Tournament entry
8thStep 5 ticket
9th$530 Tournament entry
10th-18th$320 Tournament entry
19th-27th$215 Tournament entry
28th-45th $109 Tournament entry
46th-100thStep 3 ticket
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Re: Wbcoop Hello PokerStars Player, Congratulations, you've successfully registered to play in this year's World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker (WBCOOP)! Your account has been credited with a ticket which is good for entry into any and all of the Qualifier tournaments beginning on December 15th. To check that your account has been credited with the ticket, click 'Requests' > 'Tournament Tickets' in the PokerStars lobby. The ticket is named 'WBCOOP 2008 Qualifiers'. The qualifying tournament schedule is as follows: 124189658 - Dec 15 - 14:00 ET - Pot Limit Omaha 124189659 - Dec 16 - 17:00 ET - No Limit Hold'em 124189660 - Dec 17 - 22:00 ET - Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 124189661 - Dec 18 - 14:00 ET - No Limit Hold'em 124189662 - Dec 19 - 17:00 ET - 8-Game Mix 124189663 - Dec 20 - 15:00 ET - No Limit Hold'em Registration opens two hours before the start of each event.

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PokerStars Blogger freerolls start tonight! Just spotted this this morning and got registered...some awesome prizes available and I can't find a thread on here about it. World Blogger Championship of Online Poker wbcoop2008_header.jpgThe World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is back! Calling all bloggers - it’s time once again for the annual PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! If you play poker and have your own blog, the 2008 WBCOOP is the perfect tournament series for you. This is the event that gives bloggers from across the globe the chance to face off against each other for FREE, win great prizes and battle for the coveted title! More Ways to Win This year we are giving you more chances than ever before to get in on the action. Simply register your blog and you can play in our Freeroll qualifiers, and be in with a shot at winning great prizes and WBCOOP Final seats. Make it to the Final and you’ll have the chance to play for a PokerStars Caribbean Adventureprize package worth $14,300 and European Poker Tourevent packages worth $7,500. We’ll also be giving away free entries into our biggest online tournaments and Steps satellite tickets. In total, we’re paying out $100,000 worth of prizes! See below to find out more about what you can win. The WBCOOP is open EXCLUSIVELY to anyone with an eligible blog site. Once you have registered, you can use your blog to tell all your readers that you’ll be playing in the event - and write a report afterwards about how you took it down! It doesn’t even matter if your blog isn’t about poker - you can still enter. We are running daily Freeroll qualifiers in a range of poker games - open to all registered and verified bloggers. If you’re new to poker, check out our >Poker Games page to learn the rules and get some helpful tips. How to Play For your blog to be eligible, it must have been online for at least two months and updated on a regular basis. Blogs created specifically for this promotion, or that only have a few posts, will not be granted entry to WBCOOP. If you have been eligible in the past for WBCCOP but have not updated your blog on a regular basis since the last event, you will not be eligible to play. All decisions about eligibility rest with WBCOOP management and are final. Visit the registration page to find out how to submit your blog for verification, and get your entry ticket to the freeroll qualifiers. Freeroll Qualifiers The daily Freerolls run from December 15-20 2008, in a range of different poker games. See below for more details and prize information. You can find these events listed in the PokerStars lobby, under the 'Events' and 'Special' tab.

GameDateTime
Pot Limit OmahaDecember 1514:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 1619:00 ET
Omaha Hi/LoDecember 1722:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 1814:00 ET
8-Game MixDecember 1917:00 ET
No Limit Hold’emDecember 2015:00 ET
PlacesFreeroll Qualifiers - Prizes Awarded
1stWBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Platinum Package*
2nd-9thWBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Gold Package**
10th-27thWBCOOP Final seat + Step 3 Ticket
28th-45thWBCOOP Final seat + Step 2 Ticket
46th-72ndWBCOOP Final seat
* A Sunday Majors Platinum Package consists of 3 x $215 tournament tickets, 1 x $530 tournament ticket and 1 x $11 tournament ticket. **A Sunday Majors Gold Package consists of 2 x $215 tournament tickets. The WBCOOP Final The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker Final takes place Sunday December 21, at 15:00 ET. Prizes
PlacesWBCOOP Final - Prizes Awarded
1stPokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package - worth $14,300
2ndEuropean Poker Tour± prize package + SCOOP‡ Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $11,100
3rdEuropean Poker Tour± prize package - worth $7,500
4thSCOOP Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $3,675
5thStep 6 ticket - worth $2,100
6thSCOOP Main Event ticket - worth $1,575
7th$1,050 Tournament entry
8thStep 5 ticket
9th$530 Tournament entry
10th-18th$320 Tournament entry
19th-27th$215 Tournament entry
28th-45th $109 Tournament entry
46th-100thStep 3 ticket
WBCOOP 2007 Last year’s event saw more than 1,300 players gather from around the world to compete for the Championship. Portugal’s LParreira walked away the big winner -taking first place and a PokerStars Caribbean Adventure seat worth $12,000! Visit the PokerStars Blog to read a full report of all the action from 2007 and other previous years. If you have any questions about the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker, contact [email protected].
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Re: PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP) out after a good start,,still self-destructive PokerStars Game #22944284499: Tournament #124189658, Freeroll Omaha Pot Limit - Level III (20/40) - 2008/12/15 20:24:33 CET [2008/12/15 14:24:33 ET] Table '124189658 10' 9-max Seat #8 is the button Seat 1: DeepDreamer3 (2065 in chips) Seat 2: Cynders 1 (4945 in chips) Seat 3: scoopify (4030 in chips) Seat 4: Ivndorf (2375 in chips) is sitting out Seat 5: MultiRulez (2365 in chips) is sitting out Seat 6: teaulc (3770 in chips) Seat 7: Demmukas (2155 in chips) Seat 8: PNEWS_ITALIA (2455 in chips) Seat 9: aldanjah (2585 in chips) aldanjah: posts small blind 20 DeepDreamer3: posts big blind 40 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to teaulc [Jc 8h As Jh] Cynders 1: raises 40 to 80 scoopify: calls 80 Ivndorf: folds MultiRulez: folds teaulc: calls 80 Demmukas: calls 80 PNEWS_ITALIA: folds aldanjah: folds DeepDreamer3: calls 40 *** FLOP *** [Jd Qh 3h] DeepDreamer3: checks Cynders 1: bets 40 scoopify: raises 280 to 320 teaulc: calls 320 Demmukas: calls 320 DeepDreamer3: folds Cynders 1: folds *** TURN *** [Jd Qh 3h] [4h] scoopify: checks teaulc: bets 320 Demmukas: calls 320 scoopify: calls 320 *** RIVER *** [Jd Qh 3h 4h] [3d] scoopify: bets 400 teaulc: raises 2650 to 3050 and is all-in Demmukas: calls 1435 and is all-in scoopify: calls 2650 *** SHOW DOWN *** teaulc: shows [Jc 8h As Jh] (a full house, Jacks full of Threes) scoopify: shows [Qs 6s Kd Qd] (a full house, Queens full of Threes) scoopify collected 3230 from side pot Demmukas: shows [Ts Ah Th 6h] (a flush, Ace high) scoopify collected 6685 from main pot *** SUMMARY *** Total pot 9915 Main pot 6685. Side pot 3230. | Rake 0 Board [Jd Qh 3h 4h 3d] Seat 1: DeepDreamer3 (big blind) folded on the Flop Seat 2: Cynders 1 folded on the Flop Seat 3: scoopify showed [Qs 6s Kd Qd] and won (9915) with a full house, Queens full of Threes Seat 4: Ivndorf folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 5: MultiRulez folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 6: teaulc showed [Jc 8h As Jh] and lost with a full house, Jacks full of Threes Seat 7: Demmukas showed [Ts Ah Th 6h] and lost with a flush, Ace high Seat 8: PNEWS_ITALIA (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 9: aldanjah (small blind) folded before Flop

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Re: PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP)

well done Joe' date=',next one is on about 11pm tonight,so one for the nightowls[/quote'] These are in the diary now. I've assumed GMT is 5hrs ahead of ET so for instance todays is down as midnight. If I've worked it out wrongly let me know.
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