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Join PokerStars now! The Turbo Championship of Online Poker revealed a lot about the nature of today’s game. Of the many things we learned, it’s that the series can produce champions from the ranks of relative unknowns. Just a few days removed from the end of the first TCOOP, we asked a few of the new champions to tell us a bit about themselves and what the TCOOP title means to them

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TCOOP: Easing into the champion’s role

Join PokerStars now! After the breathing in on the bubble there’s always the exhalation post-pop as the players trying the hardest to hold their gut decide enough is enough, I don’t care who sees my flab.

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EPT8 Deauville: Falling by the wayside

Join PokerStars now! The first month of a new year is always exciting, especially so for the Women’s Poker League. It all kicked off on January 3, and a new division was added to the two existing ones to give players more choices and competition.

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PokerStars Women’s Poker League: Three Divisions, Many Winners Kick off 2012

Join PokerStars now! Without doubt the table to watch right now is that of Ludovic Lacay and Martins Adeniya.

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EPT8 Deauville: No messing as Lacay and Adeniya clean up

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! After 48 events and over $16 million in combined prize pools, PokerStars ‘ inaugural TCOOP sprinted to the finish today with its $700 buy-in NLHE main event. The $1.5 million guarantee was shattered, the player count rising to 3,667 and the prize pool to $2,438,555 by the close of late registration. 495 players earned a share of it with first place set to take home $382,855.67

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TCOOP: Betudontbet wins the 2012 TCOOP Main Event and $382,855

Join PokerStars now! Every Sunday on PokerStars is a big day. There’s a reason the big tournaments that play out on Sundays are called “the majors.” Big guarantees and even bigger prize pools award millions of dollars to players who compete and make it into that money. January 29 was no different – maybe even a little better than usual

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CharlesTY. becomes January 29 Sunday Million champion

Join PokerStars now! Pitch, Spit in the Ocean, No Peeky Baseball, 31, Chicago, Black Bottom, Follow the Queen, Rivers. All games you may play at a home game (although the last one was an event at the recent PokerStars Caribbean Adventure ). On the last day of the 2012 Turbo Championship of Online Poker http://www.pokerstars.com/tcoop/ fit in between the $2,100 High Roller event the $700 Main Event, were eight games that the average player would see in a regular casino versus during Tommy’s Friday Night game in his parent’s basement

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TCOOP: Tridynamo powers to the Event #48 8-Game win

Join PokerStars now! All good things must come to an end; it’s the one guarantee there is in this life. Sadly, TCOOP is no exception to this rule, and today was the final day for what has been an action-packed 10 days of turbo poker. With six tournaments on the schedule, this series would end in style – and it would do so starting with Event 45

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TCOOP: SirFlux delivers 1.21 gigawatts of power to Event 45, $109 NLHE

Join PokerStars now! A quiet Saturday afternoon with your beloved and you glance over at the horse and carriage across the park and think that would be perfect capper for great day. After paying the fee for the majestic steeds to drive you around the city the driver calmly whispers to the horses as they start a slow trot as you take in the warmth of the sun and a quick embrace after sitting down

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TCOOP: wyatt_earp14 guns down the final table in Event #40 H.O.R.S.E. title