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.
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.
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.
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