PokerStars have concluded this year’s edition of WCOOP. With a total of $40.000.000 in guaranteed prize pools the 45 events combined was the biggest guaranteed online poker series ever. Event 45 was the monster $10.000.000 guaranteed WCOOP main event where 2000 players was needed to avoid any tournament overlay and with an amazing 2144 poker players attending PokerStars avoided to pay anything from their own pockets in the main event of WCOOP 2009.

In total 45 events was played and $51,652,800.00 was paid out in prize money during WCOOP. 140 countries have been represented with 104 of those cashing in one or more tournaments. 43973 unique players registered for one or more WCOOP events and an amazing 112.739 buy ins was sold by PokerStars.

3 players managed to cash in 11 events out of the 45 possible cashes and 2 players proved that poker is a skill game by hitting 3 final tables.

Elky most likely is the hottest poker players around these days as he won 2 WCOOP events where one had 1100+ players and another with more than 9000 poker players enrolled and if someone was doubtful about Elkys abilities before WCOOP then he has during 2009 cashed in more events than anyone else and is by far the player to look up for in the coming EPT tours. Winning a total of $504.705.84 makes Elky the 7th biggest winner in this years WCOOP.

Once again USA took most of the prize money. Exactly $24,160,621.68 (25 bracelets) was the combined winnings by American poker players with the runner up being United Kingdom (4 bracelets) cashing a total of $3,389,093.56.

In a year from now WCOOP 2010 is to be played and with the increasing and never ending success PokerStars have with this tournament series players can expect some huge prize pools to shoot at when World Cup of Online Poker returns.

21 years old and he does it again. Cashing more than $1.700.000 dollars when he won WCOOP event 45 make Yevgeniy Timoshenko the most winning player during this years WCOOP. Amazingly enough this is not the young poker players biggest cash in 2009 as he already won WPT World Championship at the Bellagio back in April where he cashed $2.149.660.

Being the youngest WPT World Championship winner and now also able to write WCOOP main event champion 2009 on his visit card is truly something that need to be respected and Yevgeniy Timoshenko is a force to be reckoned in all future poker tournaments live and online.

The same night as he won WCOOP main event 45 he also took down the 1k Monday tournament on Full Tilt Poker cashing an additional $75.000. Players are often extremely hot when things are going their way but for this guy the latest results come after an incredible 2008 season where Yevgeniy Timoshenko came 2nd in EPT Barcelona, 3rd in WSOPE London and won an Asian poker tour event worth $500.000. Running hot for a full year is seldom seen and this player is extraordinary and worthwhile studying if anyone wants to improve their tournament skills

21 years old and with more than 3 million dollar in live tournaments winnings and now an additional $1.800.000 in online poker winnings make Yevgeniy Timoshenko one of overall best players the last 2 years.

We wish Yevgeniy Timoshenko the best in the future and hope to see him in action in all the coming European Poker Tour tournaments battling it out with another extremely hot player namely Elky who came third in the same WPT at Bellagio as Yevgeniy Timoshenko won.