KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM WCOOP BOOT CAMP 2025

MULTIPLE CHAMPIONS

There were three multiple champs throughout the series, including none other than PokerStars Ambassador Fintan “easywithaces” Hand. He took down a $1K Super Tuesday and the $530 Bounty Builder HR for more than $27,500 combined.

“10Badboy10” also picked up two wins, but praise must go to Brazil’s Gabriel “gtavares10” Tavares, who not only won two events, but two editions of the same event on the same day. Tavares won both the $530 and $5K Titans tournaments–very impressive indeed.

NOTABLE WINNERS

Fintan “easywithaces” Hand

42-H: $1,050 NLHE [Super Tuesday] – $15,536
49 entries, $50,000 prize pool

54-H: $530 NLHE [Progressive KO, Bounty Builder High Roller] – $12,063
69 entries, $40,000 prize pool

Gabriel “gtavares10” Tavares

34-L: $530 NLHE [Titans] – $19,838
196 entries, $100,000 prize pool

34-H: $5,200 NLHE [Titans] – $73,348
39 entries, $200,000 prize pool

“10Badboy10”

14-H: $1,050 NLHE [Super Tuesday] – $17,577
48 entries, $50,000 prize pool

26-H: $530 NLHE [Progressive KO, Bounty Builder High Roller] – $10,751
72 entries, $40,000 prize pool

Patrick “pads1161” Leonard

02-H: $215 NLHE [Progressive KO, Series Kickoff] – $24,668 
743 entries, $148,600 prize pool

Alex “I Attack95” Kulev

03-H: $530 NLHE [Progressive KO, Bounty Builder High Roller] – $20,980
218 entries, $109,000 prize pool

Pedro “PaDiLhA SP” Padilha

04-H: $1,050 NLHE [Progressive KO, Sunday High Roller] – $26,029
103 entries, $103,000 prize pool

Jans “Graftekkel” Arends

49-H: $530 NLHE [Progressive KO, Big Knockouts, Bounty Builder High Roller] – $17,761
104 entries, $52,000 prize pool

“jppinheiiro”

61-L: $109 NLHE [Main Event] – $76,654 
6,961 entries, $696,100 prize pool

“NoTilit”

61-H: $1,050 NLHE [Main Event] – $64,303
418 entries, $418,000 prize pool

Daniel “starwins :)” Petersen

63-H: $5,200 NLHE [Titans] – $73,348
37 entries, $200,000 prize pool 

WCOOP BOOT CAMP 2025 RESULTS

GEARING UP FOR BOOTCAMP

You wouldn’t run a marathon without weeks of training. You wouldn’t sit an exam without studying. You wouldn’t set off on a long road trip without stocking up on supplies and filling the car with fuel. 

And yet, when it comes to the most prestigious online poker series of them all – the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) – many of us jump straight in, smashing that ‘Register’ button without any prep or warm-ups.

There’s nothing wrong with that, of course.

But just think how well you might play – and the results you might get – if you allowed yourself a WCOOP training camp…

FIRST THINGS FIRST

Saves the dates…

The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is PokerStars’ flagship online series — one of the most prestigious in all of poker, online or off.

The 24th edition will run from September 7 to October 1, 2025.

Get those dates in your calendar now. Then…

GET CHAMPIONSHIP-READY – AUGUST 3-18

Introducing WCOOP Boot camp – a 67-event warm-up series with $9 million guaranteed, designed to help casual poker players prepare for WCOOP and get a taste of what playing a series is like (if you’ve never played one before).

Each event has two buy-in levels – Low and High – meaning there are 134 tournaments overall with buy-ins starting from as little as $2.20.

Players not only love WCOOP due to its history and prestige, but they also love it because of the different poker games you get to play; the myriad of fun tournament formats in the mix; and last but not least, the huge prizes on offer.

WCOOP Boot camp replicates all of that, and at the low buy-in level, it does so at a fraction of the cost.

Main Events: Sunday, Aug 17, 2025

• $109 NLHE Main Event Low, $600K Gtd
• $1,050 NLHE Main Event High, $400K Gtd

Satellites running from as little as $1.10!

LEARN FROM BBZ POKER

As this is a training camp, PokerStars has teamed up with the esteemed coaches of some of your favourite PokerStars Ambassadors.

BBZ Poker is where Lex Veldhuis, Spraggy, Fintan, Tonkaaaa and more study and improve, and throughout WCOOP Boot Camp, the team — led by founder Jordan “bigbluffzinc” Drummond — will provide free training sessions to PokerStars players.

BBZ will run free coaching sessions every Friday on the following dates: August 1st, 8th, and 15th. Each session will include four hours of live coaching from BBZ coaches, running from 7 AM to 11 AM Pacific Time (10 AM to 2 PM Eastern Time).

The sessions will be hosted in the BBZ Discord. Recordings will be publicly available on BBZPoker during the Boot Camp.

To take part in the sessions, all you have to do is join the BBZ Poker Discord channel and then look for the sub-channel POKERSTARS BOOT CAMP.

There, Zoom links will be posted where you can join and watch the free seminars.

Head to the BBZ Poker Discord and get yourself set up.

WCOOP BOOT CAMP LEADER BOARD

Just like the real WCOOP, there will be a leader board running throughout the Boot Camp with incredible prizes up for grabs, rewarding consistency and hard work.

The top 100 finishers of the leader board will win something, starting with a $109 Bronze Power Pass. The top four finishers will win a $10,300 Gold WCOOP Ticket Bundle Power Pass.

NOTE: Buy-ins over $215 will not count towards the leader board.

LEADER BOARD PRIZES:

1st – 4th: WCOOP Gold Pass (worth $10,300)
5th – 8th: WCOOP Silver Pass (worth $2,500)
9th – 100th: $109 Bronze Power Pass

Available for the following licenses only: .BG, .CH, .COM, .EE, .EU, .GR, .RO, .UK

WCOOP BOOT CAMP SCHEDULE

WCOOP BOOT CAMP TICKET MACHINE

There’s $150K in WCOOP tickets to be awarded…

PokerStars is giving away $150,000 worth of tickets for the WCOOP throughout the Boot Camp series.

To be in with a chance of winning tickets, here’s what you have to do:

• Opt-in to the ICE Challenge from July 31 (You’ll find this in the Challenges tab)
• Complete up to two challenges during the promotional period

The challenges are as follows:

• Play 10 WCOOP Boot Camp events
• Finish in the money in two WCOOP Boot Camp events

There are two promotional periods awarding $75K in WCOOP tickets each:

• August 3-11
• August 12-18

Each challenge completion awards a ticket to the next upcoming prize draw. The draws happen on August 12 and 19 and 00:00 ET.

Available for the following licenses only: .BG, .CH, .COM, .EE, .EU, .GR, .RO, .UK

FURTHER READING

Five Ways to Prepare For WCOOP 2025

How to step up from Boot Camp: 4 essential poker skills you need to play WCOOP

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