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Join PokerStars now! Double the fun this month for SnG grinders as the monthly Battle of the Planets $50,000 triple shootout kicked off twice. jusTTsmile took home the $12,000.00 first place prize at the beginning of the month but failed to become the first player to win the tournament twice in the same month after earning another ticket to come back but falling in 441st place. 549 other players also cashed their shortened monthly tickets to this freeroll thanks to placing high enough on the eight planetary leaderboards Team PokerStars failed to qualify this month or were busying gearing up for the last day of the 2012 Turbo Championship of Online Poker with the $2,100 buy-in high roller (that awarded four players a six-figure score in just over four hours) and the $700 Main Event.

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Battle of the Planets: Why yes, beyessa won the January Triple Shootout

Join PokerStars now! Normally the Sunday Supersonic – a $215 hyper-turbo tournament held on PokerStars every Sunday – sports a modest $40,000 guarantee and attracts between 900 and 1,000 players.

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TCOOP: KvicKiller zips to the finish line in Event 50 ($215 NLHE Hyper-Turbo Wrap Par

Join PokerStars now! Event #37 on the Turbo Championship of Online Poker schedule was guaranteed to feature a few hours of action-fueled power poker.

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TCOOP: AlexKP cleans up, wins Event #37 ($55 PLO [6-Max, 2R1A])

Join PokerStars now! I know what you’re thinking. “3x-Turbo? Has PokerStars completely lost their minds?” While I cannot speak directly to the mental faculties of the PokerStars tournament designers, I can tell you that a 3x-Turbo doesn’t run three times faster than a regular turbo

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TCOOP: Rounder63 takes down Event #30 ($11+R PLO 6-Max, 3x-Turbo) Now pay that man hi

Join PokerStars now! A thousand poker players gathered around 100 tables on Wednesday morning for Event #29 of the Turbo Championship of Online Poker, a $109 buy-in no-limit hold’em Shootout. With five-minute levels and starting stacks of 5,000 (reset each round), the one among them who would win three ten-handed sit-n-gos — each likely to take between an hour and 90 minutes — would claim a nifty return of $18,250 on that $109 investment

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TCOOP: twirlpro runs circles around field, wins Event #29 ($109 NLHE [Shootout])

Join PokerStars now! 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 when 475 played on 2/8/11.

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AlexeyKID tops huge field in Super Tuesday (1/24/12); Lodden 2nd, Kling 5th

Join PokerStars now! Sunday was another day full of high-speed, rapid-fire action as the Turbo Championship of Online Poker continued on PokerStars . Among the tourneys on offer was Event #16, a $55 buy-in no-limit hold’em affair with five-minute levels and $10 bounties for each knockout recorded. There were about 7,000 players seated when Event #16 began, but after an hour’s worth of late registration the total field had ballooned to 12,270.

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TCOOP: Toby "810ofclubs" Lewis snares Event #16, $68k ($55 NLHE [Knockout])

Join PokerStars now! As Brad Willis mentioned a few days ago the precious guarantees by PokerStars for the 2012 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) have been getting a savage beatdown. Today’s Event #14′s $55 buy-in No Limit Omaha Hi/Low tournament (with two rebuys/one add-on) would continue this trend. The 1,321 entries alone covered the $50,000 guarantee but the 1,284 rebuys and 288 add-ons beat the guarantee into an unrecognizable pulp laying out $144,650.00 to be split up by 168 players and $24,229.61 set aside for our champ.

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TCOOP: Phat cash by phatlat, hauling in $22K after Event #14 win

Join PokerStars now! If you’ve ever played a hand of live poker, you know that it’s agonizingly slow compared to the online game – even if you only play one table at a time when you’re checking and raising on your computer. So what do you do when you start to find even the regular game a bit too tortoiselike for your taste

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TCOOP: ocropTi a perfect fit in Event 15, $55 NLHE (6-max, Hyper-Turbo)

Join PokerStars now! On a normal weekend we call this one the “Saturday Speedway,” a catchy little name for a $33 buy-in turbo affair. And on a normal weekend it would carry a $50,000 guarantee and award its winner somewhere in the neighborhood of $12,000. But this is no ordinary weekend.

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TCOOP: PURGER111 coughs up a win in Event #13 ($33 NLHE)