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Poker Stars Presents TCOOP Ticket Deposit Offer

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Coming soon to Poker Stars is its first ever Turbo Championship of Online Poker, a fast-paced online poker tournament series with a $10 million guaranteed prize pool. And now, Poker Stars players can earn free tickets into TCOOP.

To get your free TCOOP ticket, worth $22, reload your real money Poker Stars account with $60 ore more sometime from January 9 to 18, 2012. And be sure to use the promo code TCOOP when you make your deposit in order to be credited the free ticket.

There are a couple of ways you can then use this $22 free entry you’ve acquired. Either redeem it for entry into a satellite tourney awarding free entries into TCOOP events with buy-ins larger than $22 or redeem it directly for entry into a TCOOP event with a buy-in of $22 or less.

There are seven TCOOP events that have $22 buy-ins:
• January 19 at 12 noon ET, NL Holdem 6-max for $200,000
• January 20 at 8 am ET, Pot Limit Draw Poker for $50,000
• January 20 at 12 noon ET, NL Holdem with rebuys for $400,000
• January 22 at 3:30 pm ET, Pot Limit Omaha, double turbo 6-max with rebuys for $150,000
• January 24 at 4 pm ET, Stud Poker for $25,000
• January 24 at 6 pm ET, NL Holdem double turbo with rebuys for $300,000
• January 25 at 2 pm ET, Stud Hi/Lo for $25,000

You must use your free TCOOP ticket for this upcoming TCOOP, meaning that as of 18:31 ET on January 29, 2012, all free tickets awarded through this promotion will be invalidated.

PokerStars Creates Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP)

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PokerstarsPokerStars 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.