All those re entries combined with rubbish payout structures sure sounds like fun

22 out of 65 Events offer at least one re-entry, with four of those offering only one re-entry per player. While this is an increase over last year, it's a significant decrease over the number of Events with re-entries available in earlier versions of this year's schedule. Version 4 had 35 Events with at least one re-entry available.

The reality is that - despite the protestations of some - re-entry Events are enormously popular. They offer players the chance to get back into an Event from which they'd busted and the prize pools in re-entry tournaments are significantly larger than non-re-entry tournaments at the same times and in the same formats. As I've mentioned in the past, re-entry is completely optional. For those who want to play a re-entry Event like a standard freezeout, that option is completely open to all players.

As for the payout structures, I don't know how to run a tournament with a "rubbish" pay structure. My fingers simply won't type one into a tournament file... so, no worries there.

Hey Bryan. At first glance schedule looks solid, great job! Can I ask for approximate payout structure in holdem events? Is it gonna be more like in standard daily schedule or more top heavy oldish one (10-12%) with bigger mincash (2-3x)?

TCOOP is least COOPy of the COOPs in that whatever little it means to be the spring champion or world champion of a game (I say little because with all the variance of poker, no one really thinks the winner of a random tournament is actually the best player in the world in that game, but it still means something and has a lot of prestige), it means even less to win a turbo. Therefore the argument that every player should have an equal chance to be the champion, the argument against re-entries with the most weight IMO, mostly goes away.

Coupled with the increased variance of turbo tournaments, it makes a lot of sense for TCOOP of all events to be re-entries.

only 15 progs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think we can bump it up to 20.

^ shhhhhh

What kind of satellites can we expect for the main event and HR?

Given the fact that it's by far the most popular format of most games, we probably could... but 15 out of 65 is fine.

Fantastic ones.

Seriously though, a Mega-Path (of course), weekly Rd 3s with a great spread of Rd 2s and Rd 1s, daily direct qualifiers right from the start (probably), Spin & Go (probably), Phase satellites, etc. The spread, complexity, and attention given to Main Event satellites in each series are all quite extensive, and TCOOP 2017 will be no exception to that standard.

$215 PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo, 5-Stack]
$82 PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
$82 PL Omaha [3-Max, Zoom, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
$82 PL Omaha [6-Max, Win the Button]
$82 NL Omaha [6-Max, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
$215 PL Omaha [Turbo, Heads-Up]

These might be interesting but where are all(one is enough) normal 6max PLOs? What is meant to be the main Omaha event in this schedule? Who will be the champion of the champions?

PLO Sunday Grand TCOOP Edition with 250-500k GTD and Boom, dreams came true.

+1 to a regular 700 6max PLO championship

Hi Bryan,

can't see Triple Draw or Badugi? Theyre a lot more popular than some of the other formats if you could add/replace ;-)

thanks

Have you fixed the 3max PLO graphics issue? (I figure so if you're putting it in the schedule, but I figure since someone's going to ask, might as well be me)

Schedule looks great. Would play a ton if the rake was more reasonable or if this was a reg speed series. Now I'll play the NLSD and nothing else.

Those formats don't do well in TCOOP, thus they're not part of the menu. Triple Draw, at least, is incorporated into 8-Game, so there will be a chance to play some of that.

Thank you for mentioning this. Yes, the 4-Max layout issue has been addressed for 4-card hands. To be certain of this before the series runs, I'll be running at least one test.

Thanks! I believe that this is the best TCOOP we've ever put together, and that's before some of the changes, which I can't share quite yet, are announced.

Interesting. I truly didn't notice this while writing the schedule. When Version 1 is first created, one of the things I do is take a look at what ran well in previous iterations of the series. For TCOOP 2016, these are the PL Omaha Events which ran:

TCOOP-05: $82 PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive Super-Knockout], $100K Gtd
TCOOP-18: $82 PL Omaha [6-Max, Progressive Super-Knockout], $150K Guaranteed
TCOOP-30: $7.50+R PL Omaha [6-Max, 3x-Turbo], $50K Gtd
TCOOP-35: $27+R PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo], $100K Gtd
TCOOP-41: $215 PL Omaha [Turbo, Heads-Up], $100K Gtd, No Late Registration

All of the above did well, though Event 41 overlaid by $600.

Having said that, I think that you raise a good point. Perhaps the 5-Stack will run better as a straight 6-Max, without the n-Stack element added to it.

Thank you for bringing this up! I'm not promising anything, but for my money your comment has very likely directly impacted the series and improved an Event. We'll see if my colleagues agree.

As always, thank you for the feedback, everyone!

FYI, the final version (8) is being prepped for the blog right now. It should be up within the next few hours, or first thing tomorrow.

I think that many of you will be quite pleased. A lot of feedback has been incorporated.

https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/o...e-164244.shtml

TCOOP 2017 Final Schedule Announced

Hello again, everyone! I’m pleased to announce that the schedule for the 2017 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) is set after much discussion and consideration of feedback. The schedule is shown below. Please note that the guarantees for individual Events will be posted when the Events are deployed to the PokerStars client. The overall guarantee for the series is $15,000,000!

In preparation for this series, quite a lot of feedback was incorporated into the changes which were made before setting the final version. I’ll highlight the changes, most of which were made in response to feedback, below. Note that some changes will be mentioned twice, in cases where the change involved applies to multiple days.



2017 Turbo Championship of Online Poker – All Times ET


Wednesday, January 18th

Event 01 - 08:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Ultra-Deep, Kickoff] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 02 - 10:00 - $82 PL Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 03 - 12:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo]
Event 04 - 14:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Hyper-Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 05 - 16:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [8-Max, Turbo, Bubble Rush]

Change:

• Event 04 was changed from a 1R1A Turbo to a Hyper-Turbo PKO in response to feedback from players, who pointed out that they really enjoy the Hyper-Turbo PKOs offered in our regular schedule, which are quite popular.

Thursday, January 19th

Event 06 - 09:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Progressive Knockout (33%)]
Event 07 - 11:00 - $82 PL Omaha [6-Max, Win the Button]
Event 08 - 13:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (100%)] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 09 - 15:00 - $82 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Turbo]
Event 10 - 17:00 - $320 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Fat Thursday SE] (Re-Entries Available)

Changes:

• The buy-in on the 6-Max Event was increased from $215 to $700, based on player feedback that there were no PLO Events available above $215.
• The $700 PLO Event was swapped with the $82 PLO Win the Button Event, giving the $700 a better slot later in the series (better time, later: more time to run satellites).
• Event 08 was changed to 6-Max based on player feedback.
• Event 10 was changed from $82 NLHE Zoom to a $320 Special Edition of the Fat Thursday, in response to player feedback that the Fast Friday Special Edition is a Zoom and that we didn’t need Zoom on back-to-back days, and also that a Special Edition of the Fat Thursday would be very popular.

Friday, January 20th

Event 11 - 08:00 - $82 PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 12 - 10:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo, Shootout]
Event 13 - 12:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Win the Button, Rebuys]
Event 14 - 14:00 - $320 NL Hold'em [Fast Friday SE, Zoom] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 15 - 16:00 - $82 Stud Hi/Lo [Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)

Change:

• Swapped old Events 15 and 41, spreading out NL Hold’em better on the schedule, ensuring that there are two NL Hold’em Events on January 25th, as opposed to only one as in Version 6 of the schedule.

Saturday, January 21st

Event 16 - 10:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Zoom, Ultra-Deep] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 17 - 12:30 - $8 NL Hold'em [8-Max, Big Splash]
Event 18 - 14:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Heads-Up]
Event 19 - 15:30 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 20 - 17:00 - $82 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo]
Event 21 - 18:30 - $27 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Saturday Speedway SE] (Re-Entries Available)

Changes:

• Changed Event 17 from 9-Max to 8-Max based on player feedback.
• Swapped old Events 19 and 38 based on feedback that we should have a big NL Hold’em Event in the middle of the Saturday schedule.
• Changed Event 20 from 8-Max Turbo to 6-Max Hyper-Turbo based on player feedback that we needed a couple of NL Omaha Hi/Lo Hyper-Turbos. After the changes, we have four Turbo NLO H/L and two Hyper-Turbo NLO H/L Events.
• Compressed the spread of Event times on Saturdays to start the day at a more reasonable time for all players.

Sunday, January 22nd

Event 22 - 10:00 - $215 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 23 - 11:30 - $215 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Bubble Rush]
Event 24 - 13:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Players' Voice Event]
Event 25 - 14:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)] (1 Re-Entry Available)
Event 26 - 16:00 - $82 PL Omaha [3-Max, Zoom, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 27 - 18:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Hyper-Turbo, Sunday Supersonic SE] (1 Re-Entry Available)

Changes:

• Compressed the spread of Event times on Sundays to start the day at a more reasonable time for all players.
• Swapped the time slots of the $215 NLHE Players’ Voice and $700 NLHE PKO Events in response to feedback, giving the better slot to the more expensive Event, adding a bit of satellite qualification time.

Monday, January 23rd

Event 28 - 08:00 - $82 PL 5-Card Omaha [6-Max, Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 29 - 10:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [3-Max, Turbo, Zoom, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 30 - 12:00 - $82 FL Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max, Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 31 - 14:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo, 10-Stack]
Event 32 - 16:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Win the Button, Bubble Rush, Progressive Knockout (75%)] (Re-Entries Available)


Tuesday, January 24th

Event 33 - 09:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Little Splash]
Event 34 - 11:00 - $82 PL 5-Card Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 35 - 13:00 - $82 Stud [Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 36 - 15:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [8-Max, Turbo, Ultra-Deep]
Event 37 - 17:00 - $320 NL Hold'em [Fat Tuesday SE]

Changes:

• Changed Event 34 from PLO H/L to 5-Card PLO H/L in response to feedback that we were missing a 5-Card variant of PLO H/L.
• Changed Event 36 from 9-Max to 8-Max in response to feedback regarding the popularity of 8-Max.

Wednesday, January 25th

Event 38 - 08:00 - $82 NL Single Draw 2-7 [Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 39 - 10:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo, Shootout, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 40 - 12:00 - $700 PL Omaha [6-Max, Turbo]
Event 41 - 14:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Big Antes] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 42 - 16:00 - $27 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Final Day 1]

Changes:

• Swapped old Events 19 and 38 based on feedback that we should have a big NL Hold’em Event in the middle of the Saturday schedule.
• The $700 PLO Event was swapped with the $82 PLO Win the Button Event, giving the $700 a better slot later in the series (better time, later: more time to run satellites).
• Swapped old Events 15 and 41, spreading out NL Hold’em better on the schedule, ensuring that there are two NL Hold’em Events on January 25th, as opposed to only one as in Version 6 of the schedule.
• Removed n-Stack element from Event 40 based on feedback that we should have at least one “vanilla” 6-Max PLO Event on the schedule.

Thursday, January 26th

Event 43 - 09:00 - $82 NL Omaha [6-Max, Progressive Knockout (50%)] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 44 - 11:00 - $11 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Splash]
Event 45 - 13:00 - $82 Razz [Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 46 - 15:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [8-Max, Turbo, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 47 - 17:00 - $27 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Turbo]

Changes:

• Changed Event 44 to 6-Max in response to player feedback.

Friday, January 27th

Event 48 - 08:00 - $82 NL Draw [Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 49 - 10:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo]
Event 50 - 12:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Ante Up, Progressive Knockout (50%)]
Event 51 - 14:00 - $82 FL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo] (Re-Entries Available)
Event 52 - 16:00 - $700 NL Hold'em [Progressive Knockout (33%)]

Changes:

• Changed old Event 52 to NLO H/L from PLO H/L in response to player feedback that an Ultra-Deep Hyper-Turbo would play better as No Limit than it would as Pot Limit.
• Swapped old Event 52 with old Event 57, putting each Event in a better slot.

Saturday, January 28th

Event 53 - 10:00 - $215 HORSE [Turbo]
Event 54 - 12:30 - $215 PL Omaha [Turbo, Heads-Up]
Event 55 - 14:00 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Mix-Max, Part 1: 9-Max]
Event 56 - 15:30 - $82 Players' Voice #2 [non-NLHE]
Event 57 - 17:00 - $215 NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Ultra-Deep, Win the Button]
Event 58 - 18:30 - $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Saturday Speedway SE] (Re-Entries Available)

Changes:

• Changed old Event 52 to NLO H/L from PLO H/L in response to player feedback that an Ultra-Deep Hyper-Turbo would play better as No Limit than it would as Pot Limit.
• Swapped old Event 52 with old Event 57, putting each Event in a better slot.
• Lowered buy-in on non-NLHE Players’ Voice Event in response to feedback.
• Compressed the spread of Event times on Saturdays to start the day at a more reasonable time for all players.

Sunday, January 29th

Event 59 - 08:00 - $215 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Ultra-Deep]
Event 60 - 10:00 - $700 8-Game [Turbo]
Event 61 - 11:30 - $3,000 NL Hold'em [8-Max, Turbo, High-Roller] (1 Re-Entry Available)
Event 62 - 13:00 - $27 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Final Day 1]
Event 63 - 14:00 - $1,000 NL Hold'em Main Event [Turbo] (1 Re-Entry Available)
Event 63-L - 14:00 - $27 NL Hold'em Main Event [Turbo, Low-Stakes Edition] (2 Re-Entries Available)
Event 64 - 16:00 - $11 NL Hold'em [6-Max, Big Splash]
Event 65 - 18:00 - $700 NL Hold'em Wrap-Up [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Ultra-Deep] (Re-Entries Available)

Changes:

• Compressed the spread of Event times on Sundays to start the day at a more reasonable time for all players.
• Swapped time slots of NLHE Ultra-Deep and 8-Game in response to feedback that 8-Game was starting too early.
• Increased buy-in on Event 61 in response to feedback that we needed a more expensive High-Roller Event. We’ll evaluate the success of this Event before considering hosting $5K or $10K Events in future TCOOPs.
• Changed Event 61 from 9-Max to 8-Max in response to player feedback.
• Changed Event 62 from 8-Max to 9-Max.
• Added Event 63-L in response to voluminous feedback that a low-stakes companion for the Main Event would be very popular. This Event should be one of the biggest, most popular Events in TCOOP.

As you can see above, quite a lot of changes were made for this series, the overwhelming majority of them in response to feedback from our players. Looking at our feedback roll-up sheet, I can see that 15 separate feedback points were addressed in some way – in some cases impacting multiple Events per point – via improvements to the series. Thank you to everyone who submitted feedback on TCOOP 2017! It’s quite gratifying to see so much interest in the series, and extremely satisfying to be able to incorporate so much of what has been requested this year.

TCOOP will appear in the PokerStars client in the first few days of January. In the meantime, we’ll be getting various items ready in preparation for launch day. One of those items, the prize table for the Player of the Series competition, is already finished. Here are the prizes for which players will be competing in January:


TCOOP 2017 – Player of the Series Prizes

1st Place: Champion’s Trophy, $10,000 Cash, SCOOP 2017 – Main Event [M] Ticket
2nd Place: $5,000 Cash, SCOOP 2017 – Main Event [M] Ticket
3rd-5th Places: $2,500 Cash, SCOOP 2017 – Main Event [M] Ticket
6th-10th Places:SCOOP 2017 – Main Event [M] Ticket
11th-50th Places: SCOOP 2017 - Main Event [L] Ticket
51st-75th Places: SCOOP 2017 - $55 Deadline Turbo Ticket
76th-100th Places: SCOOP 2017 - $27 Deadline Turbo Ticket
101st-200th Places: SCOOP 2017 - $7.50 Deadline Turbo Ticket


Lastly to mention, we’ll be opening the nomination period for the Players’ Voice Events soon, giving our players the opportunity to tell us what formats will be played in Events 24 ($215 NLHE) and 56 ($82 non-NLHE).


TCOOP 2017 kicks off with Event 01 in a little more than six weeks!

Thank you again to everyone who has provided feedback. See you on the tables in January!

Wow somehow you have me hooked Bryan. Considering my stance was **** tcoop that's quite some feat. Respect

looks good boss

but imo make the L-Main a $55 or $109. We already have the double deuce in that timeslot.

those will be price points for main event satellites, especially $109. maybe you could get away with $55 but $27 seems reasonable to me.

Great changes all around Bryan, very excited for this TCOOP season!

Nice! Thanks a lot!

Very well played Bryan. Great to see that you create excitement around series, by listening to the customers. Great changes to the schedule and I am excited to log back on the client in January!

Yay! Awesome, thanks!

Schedule's looking vewy sexy. Great job!

Amazing revisions Bryan! Thanks so much for incorporating all the players' feedback.

Am wondering if it's too late to not add one re-entry to a couple of these games. I noticed that all the PLO8 and NLO8 games don't have any. Upon further inspection, same applies to PLO.


Do you have anything to share about the voting process for the players' choice events?