One tournament, 7,818 players, 15,365 Rebuys, 3,956 Add-ons and a total prize pool of $542,780. Sounds crazy, hah? Well, maybe not if you have taken part in one of PokerStars' Turbo Championship of Online Poker events. The event we are talking about above is Event #27, which was played yesterday.
Play moved quickly towards the money bubble, which bursts after about 2 hours when Sono Luminus got[...] Read more » PokerStars TCOOP: Brazilian brings home $82,562!
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The prizes gone up 2,5 times since the beginning of the tourney till the last add-on, I have never saw any statistics regarding so many rebuys and add-ons like on this tourney. And we have to consider there may have been several players who haven’t done any rebuy nor add-on, which means there were players investing a lot to keep on this TCOOP event till the paid places. Poor Sono Luminus: like if it wasn’t enough to be the bubble, he still is reminded for that, new opponents can use this to try to upset him at the tables. And what a nice final hand, it didn’t got to the heads up.