WCOOP-1: $215 NLHE (6-max), $400K Guaranteed! Registering (I didn't try to satellite, maybe next year when the kids give dad a few hour to try) 1465 players.

17 hours and 16 minutes away as the World Championship of Online Poker is a about to get underway for its sixth year at PokerStars is set for yet another successful run of awarding bracelets to pictures on the internet. With 103,364 players throwing virtual cards around at this hour, its safe to say poker is still popular and doesn't show a sign of dying off as a fad anytime soon.

With 21.6% of the prize pool going to the person who wins the most coin flips, has their hand hold up, and resteals like a three card monty operator will pocket six figures and be able to freeroll the rest of the tourney series.

There's still satellites running at PokerStars for all of the events, make sure you log in and take a run at your WCOOP bracelet. To follow the proceedings, make sure you punch up the PokerStarsBlog.com for daily recaps of the tourneys.