PokerStars knows exactly what they are doing in the cash game poker world, and also the online poker tournament circuit. They are the inventors of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), and have decided to expand their horizons a bit, and invent another “Championship of Online Poker” this past week. The event is called the Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP), and it is set to get underway starting on January 19th of the upcoming year. There will be a total of 50 events running over a ten day span. One of the final events that kick off on Sunday, January 29th is the Main Event, which will feature a buy-in of $700 that will cater to all different levels of players.
The idea behind turbo events is that the blind levels will move up much quicker than a standard online poker tournament. This makes it so that players have to be much more careful about their remaining number of blinds. These turbo tournaments have become incredibly popular in the past years, as players love the fact that the tournaments typically don’t last as long as other poker tournaments do.
The $700 TCOOP Main Event actually won’t be the final event of the tournament, as it will be followed up by a Hyper-Turbo event, which is a $215 tournament called the “Wrap Party”. But what really makes this tournament series a huge draw for players is the fact that the buy-in’s will range anywhere from $5 all the way to $2,100, which is the High Roller event. Over the ten day span, there is a minimum of four events running each day. It will all kick off on Thursday the 19th with a $22 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event. Stars has done their best to make it so that the event series will offer buy-in’s that are better for recreational players (smaller buy-in’s), and also have larger buy-in’s for the high stakes players; but have them mixed throughout the day so that everyone can get in on the action.
Overall, it seems that PokerStars has put out another hit with the TCOOP, and it will be interesting to see the types of prize pools that these tournaments generate.