Technical issues affected the final weekend of the 2022 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), but the schedule is now confirmed for “WCOOP Take 2” — as PokerStars concludes the series in style, with boosted guarantees. Here are the full details.

Where were we?

Before we were so rudely interrupted last month, the 2022 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) was going along swimmingly, entering its final weekend with everything ticking along nicely.

Then the gremlins arrived, and things had to slow down.

But that was then, and this is now — and we can now look forward to WCOOP Take 2, a kind of mini-series in its own right, or the appropriate conclusion of the regular WCOOP schedule.

Whatever you want to call it, we can announce 66 tournaments played over five days, with guarantees for just this portion of WCOOP hitting nearly $28 million.

That includes the PLO and NLHE Main Events, which begin on Sunday, November 6, and have some eye-watering, boosted guarantees. And there’s also the Women’s Event, with buy-ins of $5.50, $22 and $109, open only to PokerStars’ female players.

Chief among these brilliant rescheduled tournaments is the $10,300 buy-in WCOOP Main Event – High, also known as the World Championship of NLHE. It now has a guaranteed $7 million prize pool, which is $1 million more than when it was originally planned.

The $1,050 medium event has $5 million guaranteed, also a $1 million boost, and there’s $3 million guaranteed for the $109 buy-in low, which is $500K more than before.

We unfortunately had to wait a little while to play these out, but we’re confident it was worth the wait.

KEY INFO

Dates: Saturday, November 5 — Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Tournaments: 66
Total guarantees: $27,918,500

Main Events:

Sunday, November 6

WCOOP $109 NLHE Main Event Low – $3m guaranteed – increase of $500,000
WCOOP $1,050 NLHE Main Event Medium – $5m guaranteed – increase of $1m
WCOOP $10,300 NLHE Main Event High – World Championship of NLHE – $7m guaranteed – increase of $1m

WCOOP $109 PLO Main Event Low – $109 PLO, $250K Gtd
WCOOP $1,050 PLO Main Event Medium – $1,050 PLO, $600K Gtd
WCOOP $10,300 PLO Main Event High – $10,300 PLO World Championship of PLO, $1M Gtd

A SECOND GLANCE AT THE TAKE 2 SCHEDULE

The full schedule for WCOOP Take 2 is below, but let’s take a quick look at what else is on offer.

As ever with WCOOP, there’s something to suit players of all bankrolls and all tournament preferences. The lowest buy-in is $5.50, the highest is $10,300 and there’s everything else in between.

Those $5.50 buy-in comps include the WCOOP Take 2 Kickoff, which gets the mini-series started on Saturday, November 5 at 10.05am ET. There’s a $40K guarantee on that one, while its medium and high counterparts have buy-ins/guarantees of $55/$175K and $530/$200K respectively.

Let’s also highlight the Women’s Event again, drawing on the success of the first ever Women’s World Championship, which took place during the main WCOOP portion of play.

This is a NLHE tournament, with buy-ins of $5.50, $22 and $109, taking place on Sunday, November 6, at 1.30pm ET. Guarantees are $3.5K, $10K and $25K.

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WCOOP always brings all of PokerStars’ many mixed games players to the fore, and they will find everything they want from WCOOP Take 2.

Event #2 is 8-Game, Event #4 is NLO8, Event #14 is HORSE and Event #18 is 5-Card PLO.

One of the final tournaments on the schedule is Event #21 PLO, with $11, $109 and $1,050 buy-ins, which gets started just as the PLO Main Event, including the World Championship of PLO, has wrapped.

In addition to a full slate of Sunday tournaments — i.e., a Sunday Kickoff, Sunday Warm-Up, and a Sunday Cooldown — WCOOP Take 2 also features a Super Tuesday, with buy-ins/guarantees of $55/$175K, $215/$200K and $1,050/$400K.

There’s also a Main Event 2nd Chance turbo, with buy-ins/guarantees of $55/$250K, $530/$300K and $5,200/$400K. The series concludes with the joyful mayhem of a Series Wrap-Up Hyper Turbo.

WHERE WERE WE? — STATS SO FAR

At the end of the regular WCOOP schedule, our 2022 stat tracker looked like this:

Tournaments completed: 301
Entries: 982,068 (inc. 210,584 re-entries)
Prize pools: $79,501,449
First-place prizes: $13,318,741 (inc. $2,838,826 in bounties)

With $27,918,500 in guarantees coming up, we know WCOOP 2022 will end up with more than $100 million in the overall prize pool.

The countries leader board looked like this:

60 titles — Brazil
32 — UK
23 – Austria
17 – Sweden
15 — Germany
14 – Norway
12 — Ukraine
11 — Canada
10 – Romania
8 — Bulgaria, Finland
7 — Belarus
6 – Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro
4 — Andorra, Argentina, Malta
3 — Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Peru, Poland
2 — Czech Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Switzerland, Uruguay
1 — Armenia, Cambodia, Greece, Indonesia, New Zealand, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Uzbekistan.

There’s plenty of scope for a lot to change there too, although Brazil will still be leading.

FULL WCOOP TAKE 2 SCHEDULE

Saturday, November 5

10:05 WCOOP Take 2 01-L: $5.50 NLHE [WCOOP Take 2 Kickoff], $40K Gtd

10:05 WCOOP Take 2 01-M: $55 NLHE [WCOOP Take 2 Kickoff], $175K Gtd

10:05 WCOOP Take 2 01-H: $530 NLHE [WCOOP Take 2 Kickoff], $200K Gtd

11:30 WCOOP Take 2 02-L: $11 8-Game, $15K Gtd

11:30 WCOOP Take 2 02-M: $109 8-Game, $35K Gtd

11:30 WCOOP Take 2 02-H: $1,050 8-Game, $60K Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 03-L: $11 NLHE [Progressive KO], $150K Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 03-M: $109 NLHE [Progressive KO], $400K Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 03-H: $1,050 NLHE [Progressive KO], $500K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 04-L: $11 NLO8, $15K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 04-M: $109 NLO8, $35K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 04-H: $1,050 NLO8, $80K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 05-L: $55 NLHE [7-Max, Turbo, Single Re-Entry], $100K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 05-M: $215 NLHE [7-Max, Turbo, Single Re-Entry], $175K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 05-H: $1,050 NLHE [7-Max, Turbo, Single Re-Entry], $200K Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 06-L: $5.50 NLHE [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO], $30K Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 06-M: $55 NLHE [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO], $85K Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 06-H: $530 NLHE [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO], $125K Gtd

Sunday, November 6

08:05 WCOOP Take 2 07-L: $5.50 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff], $50K Gtd

08:05 WCOOP Take 2 07-M: $55 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff], $200K Gtd

08:05 WCOOP Take 2 07-H: $530 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff], $400K Gtd

10:05 WCOOP Take 2 08-L: $22 NLHE [Progressive KO, Sunday Warm-Up], $200K Gtd

10:05 WCOOP Take 2 08-M: $215 NLHE [Progressive KO, Sunday Warm-Up], $600K Gtd

10:05 WCOOP Take 2 08-H: $2,100 NLHE [Progressive KO, Sunday Warm-Up], $600K Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Main Event – Low: $109 NLHE, $3M Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Main Event – Medium: $1,050 NLHE, $5M Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Main Event – High: $10,300 NLHE [World Championship of NLHE], $7M Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 10-L: $5.50 NLHE [Progressive KO, Womens Event], $3.5K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 10-M: $22 NLHE [Progressive KO, Womens Event], $10K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 10-H: $109 NLHE [Progressive KO, Womens Event], $25K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP PLO Main Event – Low: $109 PLO, $250K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP PLO Main Event – Medium: $1,050 PLO, $600K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP PLO Main Event – High: $10,300 PLO [World Championship of PLO], $1M Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 12-L: $11 NLHE [7-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO, Freezeout, Sunday Cooldown], $85K Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 12-M: $109 NLHE [7-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO, Freezeout, Sunday Cooldown], $350K Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 12-H: $1,050 NLHE [7-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO, Freezeout, Sunday Cooldown], $400K Gtd

Monday, November 7

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 13-L: $11 NLHE [Progressive KO, Take 2 Special], $175K Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 13-M: $109 NLHE [Progressive KO, Take 2 Special], $700K Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 13-H: $1,050 NLHE [Progressive KO, Take 2 Special], $1M Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 14-L: $11 HORSE, $10K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 14-M: $109 HORSE, $30K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 14-H: $1,050 HORSE, $50K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 15-L: $55 NLHE [Turbo, Turbo ME 2nd Chance], $250K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 15-M: $530 NLHE [Turbo, Turbo ME 2nd Chance], $300K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 15-H: $5,200 NLHE [Turbo, Turbo ME 2nd Chance], $400K Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 16-L: $11 NLHE [Turbo], $50K Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 16-M: $109 NLHE [Turbo], $175K Gtd

16:30 WCOOP Take 2 16-H: $1,050 NLHE [Turbo], $200K Gtd

Tuesday, November 8

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 17-L: $55 NLHE [Super Tuesday – Single Re-entry], $175K Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 17-M: $215 NLHE [Super Tuesday – Single Re-entry], $200K Gtd

12:30 WCOOP Take 2 17-H: $1,050 NLHE [Super Tuesday – Single Re-entry], $400K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 18-L: $11 5-Card PLO, $20K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 18-M: $109 5-Card PLO, $60K Gtd

13:30 WCOOP Take 2 18-H: $1,050 5-Card PLO, $85K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 19-L: $5.50 NLHE [Heads-Up, Turbo, Progressive Total KO, Zoom], $40K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 19-M: $55 NLHE [Heads-Up, Turbo, Progressive Total KO, Zoom], $125K Gtd

15:05 WCOOP Take 2 19-H: $530 NLHE [Heads-Up, Turbo, Progressive Total KO, Zoom], $175K Gtd

Wednesday, November 9

13:05 WCOOP Take 2 20-L: $55 NLHE [Take 2 Closer], $125K Gtd

13:05 WCOOP Take 2 20-M: $530 NLHE [Take 2 Closer], $150K Gtd

13:05 WCOOP Take 2 20-H: $5,200 NLHE [Take 2 Closer], $350K Gtd

14:15 WCOOP Take 2 21-L: $11 PLO, $25K Gtd

14:15 WCOOP Take 2 21-M: $109 PLO, $75K Gtd

14:15 WCOOP Take 2 21-H: $1,050 PLO, $125K Gtd

15:30 WCOOP Take 2 22-L: $5.50 NLHE [7-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Progressive KO, Series Wrap-Up], $30K Gtd

15:30 WCOOP Take 2 22-M: $55 NLHE [7-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Progressive KO, Series Wrap-Up], $100K Gtd

15:30 WCOOP Take 2 22-H: $530 NLHE [7-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Progressive KO, Series Wrap-Up], $125K Gtd

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