by Mary Ashton
Monday ,10 May 2010
With a huge prize pool, loads of poker games and some exciting new events the ECOOP VI and the Mini ECOOP are set to provide 24 days of top quality poker
Coming back to Titan Poker this year for the sixth time is the $5.1 million Guaranteed European Championship of Online Poker – ECOOP VI – and will be held in May and June of This year. The tournament series will offe ra wide variety of poker games including Texas No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em, 7 Card Stud, Pot Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo. This year they are introducing a new Quadric event which will allow players to compete in four tournaments at the same time to try and win a share of a $100,000 prize pool. The series builds up to the main event which has a one and a half million dollar guaranteed prize pool which takes place on June 6th.
To warm players up for the ECOOP VI they are holding a Mini European Championship of Online Poker VI which will be held between May 14th and 23rd, it will include daily poker tournaments with low cost buy-ins.
There are satellite tournaments available for the ECOOP VI which are being held around the clock at Titan Poker. If you want to be part of the excitement then you can download the free Titan Poker software, sign up for an account and start playing in one of their many events.
The first ECOOP was held by Titan in December 2007 and it features players competing over 10 days to win a share of a two and a half million dollar prize pool. May 2008 saw ECOOP II and the prize pool was increased to $3.6 million over ten nights of tournaments. The third ECOOP took place over two weeks in November and December 2008 and it saw over $4,150,000 of prizes being handed out to winning players. The fourth ECOOP took place last year in May and June and had over $4,500,000 worth of prizes. Finally, the most recent ECOOP V took place in November and December 2009 and saw over five million dollars being handed out in prize money.
Titan Poker is Europes leading poker room and part of the iPoker Network. Their software is maintained and developed by Playtech which is one of the leading developers in the industry. At peak hours Titan Poker will see almost 30,000 players online and they guarantee $16,000,000 in monthly prizes. They feature special sit ‘n’ go tournaments which se progressive jackpots grow to as much as $100,000 and offer players the chance to win places at major worldwide tournaments.