Low stakes grinders are expected to be presented with a mini version of the World Championship of Online Poker next month.

The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is expected to return next month and as always it will be the most prestigious event of the online poker year, because it really is the WSOP of the online game.

However, in terms of popularity the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is perhaps the more eagerly anticipated festival, because it includes low and mid stakes events too, meaning so many more people can participate.

Now it seems WCOOP is set to take a leaf out of the SCOOP book, as a 'Mini WCOOP' is expected to be announced to run alongside the regular WCOOP.

Bryan Slick from the PokerStars Blog shared some details about the series:

To get some questions and answers out of the way right from the beginning, I'll explain that Mini-WCOOP is not in any way intended to be another stakes level of WCOOP itself, but instead a companion series run at 1/100th of the buy-in of most WCOOP Events, at 1/1,000th for some, etc. Mini-WCOOP buy-ins range from $1.10 to $11 with the exception of the Mini-WCOOP Main Event, which will cost $50 to play. There will be an extremely limited selection of satellites to Mini-WCOOP Events, which will run on the same dates and at the same times, in the same formats, as the WCOOP Events which each one mirrors (thus the reason there's no need to post the schedule). Mini-WCOOP Events will not be in the WCOOP Events tab in the client, as they are not part of WCOOP proper.

PokerStars have released a tentative schedule for the 2016 WCOOP but are still asking for feedback for both series, which you can contribute to by emailing wcoop@pokerstars.com.

Tentative 2016 WCOOP Schedule

What would you like to see in WCOOP this year? Do you like the idea of a Mini WCOOP?

Barry Carter Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2. Twitter

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