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On Sunday of last week, the PokerStars tables came alive for the most exciting time of the year -- WCOOP. The epic series of events kicked off very early in the morning with Event 1, the $215 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Max. A great crowd of 7,500 came to seek their part of the $1.5 million prize pool, and thusly began the tenth annual World Championship of Online Poker.
As the starting day approached, Twitter also received a shot of new-found life, and the Team PokerStars Pros were particularly active in taking their thoughts to the world of social media. Spectators were railing their friends on various forms of social media, and the popular Radio WCOOP provided a great soundtrack to the ever-scrolling Twitter stream throughout the week.
The fans weren't the only ones on the sidelines, either. Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier cleared up any doubt on Saturday when he tweeted: "To everyone that is asking... No I will not be playing WCOOP this year. :/" Mercier instead partook in EPT Barcelona. Thanks for giving others a chance to win something Jason.
Gearing Up
The rest of the lucky Team were gearing up for a long week, though. And with a good bit of excitement. Defending WSOP Main Event champ Jonathan Duhamel tweeted: "WCOOP starts in 14 hrs, damn I can't wait!! 10k event to start the series, that's pretty good!!! @PokerStars."

Jonathan DuhamelFellow Canadian--and one of the best Twitter ambassadors--Pat Pezzin, was equally excited: "1 day to go untill #WCOOP starts on @PokerStars ! On tap tomorrow are Events 1-3, all NL & all 3 at least $1 Million Guaranteed prize pool!"
If it's excitement you're after, you should make sure you have Andre Akkari in your feed. Our Portuguese isn't that great, but we certainly got the gist of, "Amanhã começa o WCOOP, Vamooooooo Brasilllll!!!!!" And it seems "objetive: bracelete" is fairly self-explanatory as well.
The WCOOP comes as more of a mixed bag for some of the others, though. For starters, it comes with a change of sleep schedule for Lex "Raszi" Velduis: "Been a while since I woke up at 9 am. Going to train and then do as many chores and errands today as possible. #WCOOP all day tomorrow."
Viktor "Isildur1" Blom will be getting a bit less sleep, too: "hmm is it #wcoop time yet?? playing first 3 tomorrow I think then some nearly every day...maybe no sleep for a while for me zzzz."

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom"Let the Games Begin!"
Let's allow Pat Pezzin to officially open the ceremonies via Twitter. On Sunday morning, he announced: "Let the Games Begin! 2011 #WCOOP is under way on @PokerStars with over 5200 players in Event 1 $200NL 6 Max. Good luck to everyone playing."
Liv Boeree was getting her satellite on from a new flat in London: "WCOOP STARTS TODAY!!! Just woke up and trying to win a seat to today's High Roller."
We're not even sure how to preface Team PokerStars Online's Shane "Shaniac" Schleger's start-of-WCOOP tweet: "All excited n s**t like a kid on Christmas. #WCOOP."
And once again, Akkari's excitement can be understood in any language. He tweeted, "Simbora para o QG, vai comecar a festa! iiiiiitsss timeeee! WCOOP!!"

The Bad
The first few days saw the airing of plenty of frustrations and bad-beat stories to the Twitter audiences. On the first break of the day, Duhamel tweeted about how good it felt to be playing online again, but the rosy feelings didn't last long. A short while later came these tweets: "Pretty quick bust from #WCOOP Event 1...got it in pre-flop with TT against a pretty good maniac but he had AA...feeling good for Event 2, 10k." And then: "Busted #WCOOP1 and #WCOOP3 at the exact same time...pretty bad feeling lol, got some others going, like the 1k Second Chance, not over yet!!" For what it's worth, Duhamel did finish fourth in that second chance, but we assume the, "hèrz;msogwje

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