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PokerStars' World Championship of Online Poker Spreads Wealth Around the World; Players From All 50 States and More Than 40 Countries Battled for Record $6 Million+ in Total Prize Money.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 10-AUG-04 		Format: Online - approximately 873 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- With more than 10,000 entries and $6 million in prize money awarded in 12 events held between July 28 and August 8, PokerStars' Third Annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) now rivals the biggest and most prestigious land-based poker tournaments in the world. As thousands of poker fans watched on their computers this past Sunday, a 30-year-old financial analyst from Oslo, Norway, known by the screen name "Ragde" won $424,945.26 in the main event.

The total prize pool for the main event alone exceeded $2 million dollars -- a higher figure than most of the biggest poker events shown on television -- and the top 81 finishers received prize money. No Internet-based competition of any kind in history has ever awarded such a...

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