Hello again, everyone!
The 2017 Turbo Championship of Online Poker is approaching (18-29 January 2017), and it's time once again for me to present the tentative schedule in order to give you an opportunity to provide feedback on what we've worked out so far. After much discussion, we're up to Version 6 of the TCOOP 2017 schedule, and I'm happy to inform you that we've got some exciting things in store, many of which are new to TCOOP, which is expanding this year to 65 Events (from 50 in 2016 and earlier).
New to TCOOP in 2017:
- Bubble Rush Events: the structure plays fast until the payout bubble is reached, then things slow down.
- Win the Button Events: the winner of each hand receives the button for the next hand.
- TWO Phase Events: one NL Hold'em (on the last day instead of the first as it was 2016), one NL Omaha Hi/Lo.
- TWO Player's Voice Events: one NL Hold'em, one non-NL Hold'em.
- More to follow on these in the near future.
As I always do at this time, I'd like to point out that we not only listen to feedback from our players on the Championship schedules we develop, we absolutely depend upon it! If you'd like to comment on anything you see below (or anything you don't see but wish you did), please drop a line to tcoop at pokerstars dot com, or send me a PM here on 2p2, or comment in the thread below. Feedback will be collected for approximately one week before we finalize the schedule and start getting the Events ready.
** Note: guarantees will be posted when the series is deployed to the PokerStars client.
2017 Turbo Championship of Online Poker - Tentative Schedule - All Times ET
Wednesday, January 18th
08:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Ultra-Deep, Kickoff]
10:00 - $82 PL Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
12:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo]
14:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Turbo, 1R1A]
16:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [8-Max, Bubble Rush]
Thursday, January 19th
09:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Progressive Knockout (33%)]
11:00 - $215 PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo, 5-Stack]
13:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Progressive Knockout (100%)]
15:00 - $82 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Turbo]
17:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Zoom]
Friday, January 20th
08:00 - $82 PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
10:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo, Shootout]
12:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Win the Button, Rebuys]
14:00 - $320 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Zoom, Fast Friday SE]
16:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Big Antes]
Saturday, January 21st
10:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Zoom, Ultra-Deep]
12:30 - $8 NL Hold'em [Big Splash]
14:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Heads-Up]
15:30 - $82 NL Single Draw 2-7 [Turbo]
17:00 - $82 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max, Turbo]
18:30 - $27 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Saturday Speedway SE]
Sunday, January 22nd
08:00 - $215 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
10:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Bubble Rush]
12:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
14:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Players' Voice Event #1] – must be Turbo, Hyper-Turbo, or Bubble Rush
16:00 - $82 PL Omaha [3-Max, Turbo, Zoom, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
18:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Hyper-Turbo, Sunday Supersonic SE]
Monday, January 23rd
08:00 - $82 PL 5-Card Omaha [6-Max, Turbo]
10:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [3-Max, Turbo, Zoom, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
12:00 - $82 FL Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max, Turbo]
14:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo, 10-Stack]
16:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Win the Button, Bubble Rush, Progressive Knockout (75%)]
Tuesday, January 24th
09:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Little Splash]
11:00 - $82 PL Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
13:00 - $82 Stud [Turbo]
15:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Ultra-Deep]
17:00 - $320 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Fat Tuesday SE]
Wednesday, January 25th
08:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo]
10:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo, Shootout, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
12:00 - $82 PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo, Win the Button]
14:00 - $82 Stud Hi/Lo [Turbo]
16:00 - $27 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Turbo, Final Phase 1]
Thursday, January 26th
09:00 - $82 NL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
11:00 - $11 NL Hold'em [Splash]
13:00 - $82 Razz [Turbo]
15:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [8-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
17:00 - $27 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Turbo]
Friday, January 27th
08:00 - $82 NL Draw [Turbo]
10:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo]
12:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Ante Up, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
14:00 - $82 FL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo]
16:00 - $215 PL Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Ultra-Deep, Win the Button]
Saturday, January 28th
10:00 - $215 HORSE [Turbo]
12:30 - $215 PL Omaha [Turbo, Heads-Up]
14:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Mix-Max, Part 1: 9-Max]
15:30 - $215 Players' Voice #2 [non-NLHE] – must be Turbo, Hyper-Turbo, or Bubble Rush
17:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Progressive Knockout (33%)]
18:30 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Saturday Speedway SE]
Sunday, January 29th
06:00 - $700 8-Game [Turbo]
08:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Ultra-Deep]
10:00 - $2,100 NL Hold'em [Turbo, High-Roller]
12:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [8-Max, Turbo, Final Phase 1]
14:00 - $1,000 NL Hold'em Main Event [Turbo]
16:00 - $11 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Big Splash]
18:00 - $700 NL Hold'em Wrap-Up [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Ultra-Deep]
Again, if you'd like to comment on anything you see below (or anything you don't see but wish you did), please drop a line to tcoop at pokerstars dot com, or send me a PM here on 2p2, or comment in the thread below. Feedback will be collected for approximately one week before we finalize the schedule and start getting the Events ready. Thank you for taking the time!