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"V7JCV21" Wins $260,194 and Jason Somerville Streams a Final Table in the 2015 WCOOP

To the delight of online poker players around the world, the 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicked off its action-packed schedule on Sept. 6 on PokerStars.

This year's schedule features 70 exciting events with a mind-blowing $45 million in guaranteed prize pools. As of Friday, 13 of the 70 events were in the books, and by the end of the weekend we will see double that with 26 events either underway or finished.

American poker refugee, Peter "RcknTheSbrbs" Nigh kicked things off by shipping the opening event, the WCOOP-01: $109 NL Hold'em [WCOOP Kickoff, Phase 2], $1.