PokerStars Hopes To Avoid More Issues as the Ontario Championship of Online Poker Begins

Now that online play is expanding inwards Ontario, everyone wants to let in on the action. PokerStars is connexion them, ready to innovate its inaugural PokerStars Ontario Championship of Online Poker (ONCOOP). First, it has to stay fresh its servers working properly.

PartyPoker already ran an Ontario-based online poker tournament this month and BetMGM is reportedly sledding to acquaint its possess variation at some point. Flutter’s PokerStars testament supply its call to the lean with its ONCOOP outset this weekend.

Players may come on the virtual tables with a minuscule trepidation, and truly so. PokerStars lately dealt with a major embarrassment when its World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) this month came to a grinding halt due to a distributed denial of divine service (DDoS) attack. Hopefully, its Ontario servers are inwards better shape.

Tournaments of All Shapes and Sizes

The ONCOOP has something for everyone. The serial publication runs from October 1-17 and has 132 tournaments on the schedule. By the clip the shoemaker's last victor stands up, over CAD2 zillion (US$1.45 million) in guaranteed treasure money will hold been distributed.

All banner salamander formats are available – TX Hold’em, Omaha and more. There will live DeepStack and Knock-Out events, as good as Turbo and Hyper Turbos.

Buy-ins take up as low as CAD5 (US$3.64) and lead upward to CAD2,000 (US$1,455.40). PokerStars testament also awarding Second Chance Freerolls worth a add of CAD35,000 (US$25,469) throughout the ONCOOP.

Players tin also seize a sit inward unity of the II Main Events. The CAD50 (US$36.40) buy-in NLHE tournament has CAD40,000 in guaranteed value money, piece the CAD500 (US$364) buy-in NLHE event has at to the lowest degree CAD200,000 (US$145,600) upwards for grabs.

There will also be II PokerStars Platinum Passes as component of the prize pool. These cater approach to the PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC) in the Bahama Islands next January. Each flip is worth US$30,000, which covers the $25,000 buy-in and $5,000 inwards travelling cash.

While this is the number 1 COOP serial inwards Ontario, it isn’t the number one tournament PokerStars unionised inward the province. That belongs to the Ontario Platinum Series inward July.

That serial included 90 events and had CAD1 billion (US$727,800) inward guaranteed immediate payment on the table. However, it didn’t standoff the crowd PokerStars had hoped. PokerStars had an overlay of at to the lowest degree 50% inwards sevener of the events. It stock-still came come out ahead, though, as more than 35 tourneys surpassed their expected end by at to the lowest degree 20%.

WPT In The Edwin Herbert Land John L. H. Down Under

September was a engaged month for poker. As PokerStars tried to consummate its WCOOP, the World Poker Tour (WPT) was looking for for winners inward the bring down down feather under. This month pronounced the first-ever WPT Australian Main Tour, which Star Entertainment’s Star Gold Coast hosted. The Main Event, with a buy-in of AUD5,400 (US$3,484), was a huge success, attracting 710 players and pushing the appreciate puddle upwardly to AUD3.55 meg (US$2.29 million).

In the end, it was a participant who didn’t even out require to live there who won. Saint David Tang dynasty of Melbourne had ab initio planned on participating before he tried to back out at the lastly minute.

Instead, he wanted to take in the Grand Final of the Aussie Football League. However, when he couldn’t offset his flight, he reluctantly stuck with the event.

It paid off, too. His first-place destination saw him bag AUD425,712 (US$274,669). As runner-up, China’s Po Ho took place AUD277,225 (US$178,865).