It's been a busy January on PokerStars with tournaments in the Bahamas and France the past few weeks. Throw in the first TCOOP series and it may make you forget about the regular major events on the schedule. The calendar states that this is the first Super Tuesday in February, and 445 players put down their $1,000 (plus $50) to create a $445,000 prize pool distributed to the final 54 players. Tonight's winner will earn over $85,000, an impressive sum no matter when it happens. Six members of Team PokerStars participated in the festivities with Team Canada Pro Pat
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2/7/12 Super Tuesday: 99NvrLosez earns $85,395 in marathon final table
TCOOP Latest Posts
TCOOP: Easing into the champion's role
The Turbo Championship of Online Poker revealed a lot about the nature of today's game. Of the many things we learned, it's that the series can produce champions from the ranks of relative unknowns. Just a few days removed from the end of the first TCOOP, we asked a few...more
TCOOP: How Mongy won Player of the Series
Scott "Mongy" O'Reilly played every single event of the 2012 Turbo Championship of Online Poker. Scott "Mongy" O'Reilly won a TCOOP championship and tens of thousands of dollars. Scott "Mongy" O'Reilly won the TCOOP Player of the Series title. We knew all of those things about Scott O'Reilly. But...how did...more
TCOOP closes with (quick) bang
If you blinked, you might have missed it, but there was no mistaking the sound of a lot of money rushing by really fast and slamming into the bankrolls of PokerStars' newest Turbo Championship of Online Poker champions. Sunday marked the end of the very first TCOOP, one that was...more
Sunday Million Latest Posts
MatejK992SLO slowly but surely won $177K for Sunday Million success
Sundays are usually reserved for winding down from a busy week, but in the world of online poker, it's one of the most exciting days with the most opportunities to win big. Last Sunday saw the final events of the inaugural TCOOP series take place, and today brought all of...more
CharlesTY. becomes January 29 Sunday Million champion
Every Sunday on PokerStars is a big day. There's a reason the big tournaments that play out on Sundays are called "the majors." Big guarantees and even bigger prize pools award millions of dollars to players who compete and make it into that money. January 29 was no different -...more
James "Asprin1" Akenhead finds sweet relief in the Sunday Million
After 19 events of high-speed TCOOP madness, it was a relief to sink back into the old routine of the Sunday Million. Big stacks. Long time banks. Comfy fifteen-minute levels. 7,125 Sunday grinders agreed, buying in for $215 apiece to create a $1,425,000 prize pool. 1,080 places were paid with...more
Sunday Warm-Up Latest Posts
MarinaBalbes makes nearly $100K for Sunday Warm-Up victory
It was a big day of sports for the Americans and those who follow what the Americans call football. But for the rest of the world, it was poker as usual, and PokerStars was there to provide the schedule of tournaments that would satisfy everyone from the low buy-in players...more
RasA86 wins $112K and Sunday Warm-Up title for Denmark
Every Sunday on PokerStars is a busy one. With the line-up of Sunday majors, players need a strict schedule and several computer monitors to get in on all of the action. Today is one of those days that requires even more attention because of all of the TCOOP action, but...more
Sunday Warm-Up: MikiOpasniy outlasts FinancialPOK for the title and $115K
"Any way that suited the other man would suit him - any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied". A quote from tavern regular Simon Wheeler talking about the gambling man Jim Smiley in the Mark Twain short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Mr....more
Super Tuesday Latest Posts
Gambit360 runs circles around field, captures 1/31/12 Super Tuesday
The last Super Tuesday of January drew a large group of 378 to play the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament. That meant a prize pool of $378,000 -- again, as usual, crushing the $150K guarantee -- with the top 45 finishers dividing the cash and $73,143 due the winner barring...more
AlexeyKID tops huge field in Super Tuesday (1/24/12); Lodden 2nd, Kling 5th
This week's Super Tuesday saw no decline in numbers resulting from the ongoing TCOOP, with another big field of 445 showing up for the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament. That's a small increase from last week, and in fact represents the largest Super Tuesday field since almost a year ago...more
The Only Thing You See, You Know It's Gonna Be... AceSpades11, SuperTuesday champ (1/17/12)
Another big field showed up for tonight's Super Tuesday, with 439 coming out to play. That's the biggest group to participate in PokerStars' weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament so far in 2012, and the largest since 442 played four weeks ago -- which at the time was the largest Super...more
WCOOP Latest Posts
An Ode to WCOOP
Editor's note: Nearly everyone we've encountered in the past few days is dealing with the World Championship of Online Poker hangover in a different way. Some people are taking a break from poker. Others are diving headlong back into the fray. Some people are eating a lot of junk food...more
WCOOP 2011: Naked ambition and 2FLY2TILT's Player of the Series award
A chore as simple as taking out the garbage could've forever changed the course of history for the 2011 World Championship of Online Poker. Joel Adam Gordon (by now most know him as 2FLY2TILT) was getting ready to start registering for WCOOP events one morning from his flat in Barcelona,...more
WCOOP 2011 Main Event: Watch Thomas 'Kallllle' Pedersen win
So, you've read our final table report of Thomas 'Kallllle' Pedersen's PokerStars WCOOP 2011 Main Event victory. You then enjoyed Brad Willis' interview with the Dane, a new millionaire and a man who always wants to be the last man standing. Now you can watch our video of his powerful...more
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