The 2022 editions of the World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event shuffles up and deals at PokerStars at 5:30 p.m. BST on September 25 and crowns its champion four days later on September 28. The last player standing will become the 21st winner of online poker's most prestigious annual tournament, and will join a long list of PokerStars players in the online poker giant's history books.
You have to go back to 2002 to find the inaugural WCOOP Main Event, which is the same year PokerNews launched. At this time, the European Poker Tour was still two years away, and only a single World Poker Tour event had taken place.