Weekend Review: Start of WCOOP 2014 highlights the weekend

After all of the waiting WCOOP 2014 is finally begun, with the primary three events of a 66 tournament schedule highlighting a hectic weekend on PokerStars.

At the close of play on day one all three events paused, with play set to renew in each later today. Here's how things will look after they re-start.

WCOOP 2014: Event #1, $109 NL Hold'em [WCOOP Kickoff]Entrants: 10,129Players remaining: 32Prize pool: $1,012,900Places paid: 1,350

1. luis faria (Portugal) 5,577,4872. Mutombooh (Germany) 4,422,2903. guanfahai (China) 3,023,3304. Drogbaaaaaaa (Russia) 2,962,7625. Brendy88 (Czech Republic) 2,795,1526. blinkiejans (Netherlands) 2,616,9517. student210 (Russia) 2,481,5298. FBurnz01 (Canada) 2,426,0339. roo 400 (Canada) 2,062,02710. Hasseh922 (Finland) 2,026,017

WCOOP 2014: Event #2, $215 NL Hold'em 6-Max [Sunday Warm-Up SE]Entrants: 6,348Players remaining: 57Prize pool: $1,269,600Places paid: 840

1. Sion08 (Belgium) 2,898,6432. djpsymoon (Netherlands) 2,511,3983. Mutombooh (Germany) 2,412,7564. poker@luffyD (Latvia) 2,396,4755. Belqi (Estonia) 1,924,2416. Bouling (Russia) 1,894,2197. Besokaren (Sweden) 1,884,4398. K!nG.O.O (Germany) 1,740,1669. cheeky4714 (UK) 1,718,55410. 100$talker (Russia) 1,707,825

WCOOP 2014: Event #3, $215 NL Hold'em [Sunday Million SE]Entrants: 11,634Players remaining: 159Prize pool: $2,326,800Places paid: 1,530

1. XmasParty666 (Slovenia) 2,585,8412. SilentPurple (Canada) 2,445,8493. elkaril (Belgium) 2,059,5184. RaiseYouGod (Poland) 1,923,7175. oknyazkov (Belgium) 1,880,6796. game2eazy (Mexico) 1,825,9967. whipEEr (Czech Republic) 1,762,6508. youaremelon (Canada) 1,732,8439. weekesy333 (Canada) 1,565,75010. Kolkelini (Germany) 1,518,516

It's in Event #3 that Team PokerStars Pro have made the largest splash. One Team Pro and two members of Team Online are a number of the last 159.

Chris "Money800" Moneymaker among those returning in WCOOP #3

Chris "Money800" Moneymaker leads them, with 982, 718 chips, narrowly sooner than Grzegorz "Da Warsaw" Mikielewicz with 945,184. Meanwhile Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceuer may even return on 471,102.

Give the thrill around this year's Championship it was hardly surprising that every of the primary three WCOOP event smashed their guarantees. We'll have full reports on each of these events, and all tournaments between now and the primary Event, here at the PokerStars Blog.

In the meantime listed here are the consequences from the large PokerStars weekend majors from September 7, 2014.

Congratulations to all of this week's winners, and good luck to these still in contention for a WCOOP bracelet.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.

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