[1][2] The fifteen WCOOP events in 2005 generated $12,783,900 in prize money, making it not only the biggest ever online poker event, but the third biggest poker series (live or online) in all of 2005.
[citation needed] Keeping with the tradition of the World Series of Poker, the WCOOP is a series of tournaments in which players compete in a variety of different poker games, each with different buy-in and prize levels.
In addition to the cash prize, the winner of each WCOOP event received a personally engraved 14 karat gold bracelet from PokerStars up until 2015.
[3] The 2002 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of nine events with over $730,000 in combined prizes.
The 2003 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 11 events with a total prize pool of over $2.7 million.
The 2004 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 12 events with a total prize pool of over $6 Million.
The 2005 World Championship of Online Poker consisted of 15 events with a total prize pool of over $12 Million.
[95] This was the first WCOOP series since Black Friday 2011, A legal action by the U.S. Government that forbids people living in the United States from playing poker for real money on the site due to banking regulations, as a result there are many current or former US citizens playing online from other countries the following list reflects as always the nations where the winners were logged-in at the time of the event.
†including bounties Up to Season 17 (2018) Below is a breakdown of the login countries of all bracelet winners in the history of the WCOOP: