Guide To The Titan Poker ‘European Championship Of Online Poker’

The inaugural European Championship Of Online Poker (ECOOP) will take place in early December 2007 at Titan Poker. This new online tournament series has a guaranteed prize pool of $2.5 Million over 10 prestigious events.

Titan Poker ECOOP – Overview

With a guaranteed prize pool of $1 Million the ‘Main Event’ of the inaugural ECOOP promises to be the biggest online payout ever dedicated to European poker players. The main event is in No-Limit Holdem format and has a buy-in of $1000+$60 – satellite qualifiers are running around the clock and start from just a few dollars.

Of the ten events scheduled 7 are the popular Texas Holdem poker format, this includes a re-buy tournament, one with 6-max tables and a Fixed-Limit event in addition to the 4 No-Limit tournaments (including the main event). The remaining 3 tournaments are in Omaha Poker format – with re-buy tournaments in both pot-limit Omaha high-only and high-low format and a $100k guaranteed freeze-out tournament in pot-limit Omaha high format too.

In addition to the events themselves Titan Poker are running a leader-board contest in which players are awarded points depending on their placing in the scheduled tournaments. The top 50 players will then be invited to an exclusive $50,000 freeroll tournament after the ECOOP has finished.

How To Qualify For The Titan Poker ECOOP

Titan Poker run an innovative qualification system for all of their tournaments (including satellites to live events). This takes the form of a 3-stage tournament system, where players can work their way up to the ‘stage 1 super-satellites’ starting with a very low buy-in at the early stages.

Qualification can be mixed between sit and go tournaments and multi-table tournaments including re-buy variations. The stage 3 qualifiers are usually $1 to $3 (or even freerolls using ‘Titan Points’), these award places in the step 2 events and so on. Players can buy-in directly to the satellites which directly award seats – the amount depending on the buy-in for the associated WCOOP event and ranging from $11 to $30.

Titan Poker offer an excellent sign up bonus and many other promotions and incentives for new players. For the maximum 100% to $500 on your first deposit use bonus code XXXXX. This bonus clears fast and will reduce your tournament entry fees for both the WCOOP and the usual schedule by 85% while you are clearing it.