The 2014 Turbo Championship of Online Poker kicked off yesterday with four action-packed tournaments. The fast-paced tournament series is running until February 2, 2014, with over $15 million in prize money spread across 50 events! TCOOP offers buy-ins for all bankrolls and (as always) there are cheap satellites to all events running around the clock. The Main Event ($700 buy-in) is scheduled for [...] Read more » TCOOP 2014: January 23 - February 2 ($15 million in prize money)
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
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These online series are a great innovation and it would be nice to be able to win a piece of the pot. I will be entering some of the satellites and hoping to win big for a little outlay.Good luck to all those who enter
"The Main Event ($700 buy-in) is scheduled for February 2 and the winner is guaranteed to take home at least $300k from the $2 million prize pool!"
Something not cool here. So, the ME buy-in actually more than three times as much as the Sunday Millions yet the guaranteed prize pool only two times as big? I know thats on every weekend and this is only once a year, but still, something wrong with the proportions IMO.
Obviously they expect a smaller field... Anyways I have never seen a big tournament where the prize pool was only the guaranteed money. Everytime the prize pool was much bigger...
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 2688
First time I will be around when the TCOOP launched, i started poker the last april of 2013 and have not being in the han-feb-march promos, so no idea what events are there.
Looks like a good tourneys with lots of actions, will watch those replays!
Joined: Sep '13
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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"The Main Event ($700 buy-in) is scheduled for February 2 and the winner is guaranteed to take home at least $300k from the $2 million prize pool!"
well bowie, thats guaranteed money, so i suppose its gonna grow up a bit... most likely
even if it doesnt, i could care less im happy playing my 1$ tourneys
------------ bah just ended up as 2nd in tcoop #something satelite and got cash instead, which means im not playing it as long as its more than $3 bi
oh well, gonna give it another shot soon, apparently theres loads of satelites for those big games, not sure how easy is to win a ticket that way though?
Joined: Mar '12
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 1277
So tempted to take a day off work just to try and grind out a sweet payday. Just getting a top 20 is enough to be a serious takedown in the main event.
Plus plenty smaller events, so I'll see how things pan out, if I want to try and nail a satellite or two.
Joined: Feb '11
Location: United Kingdom
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Great event and got the weekend to take a look a the opportunities available to me s will head off over to PS soon ANSI see what's happening this weekend and see if I can get the chance to get into the action and take home a few quid. Good luck to all who play in TCOOP.
Joined: Mar '12
Location: United Kingdom
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I entered event 10 and all I can say is what a crap shoot. I was card dead as hell but some of the moves being made when I wasn't involved were atrocious, even from supernova players lol
One guy dumped all the way with AJs and rivered an ace against a legit flopped pair. I got dumped by a guy who was raising my BB every time, this time in MP so I blind shoved AI (turns out I had A5s) and he had 109o and hit a 10 on the flop. Dumb as f**k play, guess some people don't care to try and build a stack.
Joined: Sep '13
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 1564
yea some of mtt play makes you want to cry inside really. Today i got kicked out by a guy who called my shove with Q6o, he got a full house ofc. QTQsomething and T on the river.
but thats not even one of worst hands ive seen, there was a guy calling every raise with just about any hand, once he won 3way pot with 36o, with pair of 6's which just shows what other people had and were shoving with.
all that makes you a bit sad because you are there trying to build stack, sometimes card dead and when you are forced to shove with something less than 'good', ofc you completely miss it and someone with 92o gets a fh or something like that.
it takes lots of selfcontrol to remain tiltfree but im good at staying tiltfree when it comes to mtts/sngs but cash games (zoom much more than normal ring games) make me go tilt in no time.
In fact i think i just played last zoom session today, ended up on 0 so havent actually lost anything. well, maybe my sanity but thats about it. Got rivered 2 times in a row with someone calling everything with gutshot, they just wont let it go regardless if they have to spend 10$ to keep their gutshot draw alive, on 2NL and ofc they get it almost every freaking time too -.-
end rant, not sure how i ended up talking about zoom on mtt topic, but ... just stay away from zoom. its evil, pure evil
Joined: Aug '09
Location: Chile
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 1353
I lookep up the schedule and the only tournament that I really wanted to play was the event Number 1. Sadly I did not log in on time to play the sat, so I could not try to get a cheaper seat.
The remaing events have a pretty high buy-in for my bankroll and I'm not really interested in them, so I think I will be just watching the events instead of playing.