The world of online poker has followed the real world in offering their own versions of the world famous World Series of Poker.  Online poker rooms now offer their own series of poker tournaments similar to the WSOP, however, the advantage of these online series’ is that they can be offered to more people and in some cases can be offered multiple times per year.  Two of the largest online poker tournament series’ online are the PokerStars World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series (FTOPS).

One of the main differences between these two great online poker series is the fact that the PokerStars WCOOP occurs only once per year, while Full Tilt usually offers up their FTOPS series a couple times per year.

Both online poker championships offer huge guaranteed tournaments.  The WCOOP in 2008 guaranteed $30 million in prize pool money.  The FTOPS series has anywhere from $15 million and more in guaranteed prize money per FTOPS series.  The May FTOPS series will feature $18 million in guarnanteed tournament prize money.

One of the great features of the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS is that each tournament is hosted by one of the many professional players who play at Full Tilt Poker.  Players include former online pro’s Jordan Morgan and Cole South as well as some of the most famous poker pro’s in the world Erick Lindgren and Howard Lederer to name a few.

Both online poker tournament series offer players many ways to get involved in each tournament.  Satellite tournaments run on both poker rooms in the weeks leading up to the tournament series and players can qualify for each tournament series via satellites as cheap as $2.

PokerStars WCOOP and Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS tournament series offer players a great way to get involved in large tournaments when they can’t make it to the largest tournaments of them all the World Series of Poker.

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