January 19 2012, PokerNews Staff

Download PokerStars now to participate in the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) from Jan. 19 through 29.

PokerStars is launching its inaugural Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) on Thursday, Jan. 19, giving PokerNews players a chance to become one of the first-ever champions of the brand new series! PokerStars is offering $10,000,000 in guarantees across 50 Turbo and Hyper Turbo tournaments, with buy-ins starting as low as $5.50 and ranging all the way to the $2,100 High Roller.

The TCOOP schedule includes a huge selection of PokerStars’ most popular games, including Texas hold’em, Omaha, stud, H.O.R.S.E. and 8-game mix. The series culminates on Sunday, Jan. 29, with a $700 buy-in Main Event that features a $1.5 million guarantee!

Satellites for each TCOOP event are running non-stop, which means that anyone can play for their share of the cash and the chance to be crowned one of the first TCOOP champions. You can view a live schedule of the satellite tournaments at PokerStars.com or in the PokerStars lobby under the “TCOOP” tab.

Here’s a look at the full schedule of the Turbo Championship of Online Poker (All times Eastern):

Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
12:00 – $22 NL Hold’em 6-Max ($200K Gtd)
14:00 – $33 NL Omaha Hi/Lo ($50K Gtd)
16:00 – $134 NL Hold’em Knockout ($250K Gtd)
18:00 – $33 NL Hold’em ($100K Gtd)

Friday, Jan. 20, 2012
08:00 – $22 PL Draw ($50K Gtd)
10:00 – $55 NL Hold’em 6-Max Shootout ($100K Gtd)
14:00 – $22 NL Hold’em w/ Rebuys ($400K Gtd)
16:00 – $55 NL Hold’em Big Antes, 2x Chance ($300K Gtd)

Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012
10:00 – $55 PL Omaha Knockout ($100K Gtd)
12:00 – $21 NL Hold’em 3x-Turbo w/ Rebuys ($300K Gtd)
14:00 – $109 NL Hold’em Heads-Up ($150K Gtd)
16:00 – $33 Triple Stud ($25K Gtd)
19:00 – $33 TCOOP Special ($100K Gtd)

Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012
08:30 – $55 NL Omaha Hi/Lo 6-Max 2R1A ($50K Gtd)
11:30 – $55 NL Hold’em 6-Max, Hyper-Turbo ($150K Gtd)
12:30 – $55 NL Hold’em Knockout ($200K Gtd)
13:30 – $109 NL Hold’em 1R1A ($300K Gtd)
15:30 – $22 PL Omaha 6-Max 2x Turbo w/ Rebuys ($150K Gtd)
18:30 – $215 Hyper-Turbo ($300K Gtd)

Monday, Jan. 23, 2012
08:00 – $55 PL Omaha 6-Max, 1R1A ($100K Gtd)
10:00 – $44 NL Hold’em 4-Max ($150K Gtd)
12:00 – $82 FL Omaha Hi/Lo ($50K Gtd)
14:00 – $153 NL Hold’em 6-Max Hyper-Turbo ($200K Gtd)

Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012
12:00 – $109 PL Omaha Hi/Lo 6-Max ($50K Gtd)
14:00 – $215 NL Hold’em ($500K Gtd)
16:00 – $22 Stud ($25K Gtd)
18:00 – $22 NL Hold’em 2x-Turbo w/ Rebuys ($300K Gtd)

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
08:00 – $82 NL Hold’em 2x Chance ($150K Gtd)
10:00 – $109 NL Hold’em Shootout ($75K Gtd)
12:00 – $11 PL Omaha 6-Max 3x Turbo w/ Rebuys ($100K Gtd)
14:00 – $22 Stud Hi/Lo ($25K Gtd)

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
12:00 – $5.50 NL Hold’em w/ Rebuys ($100K Gtd)
14:00 – $33 Razz ($50K Gtd)
16:00 – $215 NL Hold’em 2x Chance ($400K Gtd)
18:00 – $55 PL Omaha 4-Max ($75K Gtd)

Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
08:00 – $82 NL Hold’em 6-Max ($250K Gtd)
10:00 – $55 PL Omaha 6-Max 2R1A ($100K Gtd)
12:00 – $55 NL Hold’em Ante Up! ($100K Gtd)
14:00 – $109 FL Hold’em 6-Max ($100K Gtd)

Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012
10:00 – $109 HORSE ($25K Gtd)
12:00 – $109 PL Omaha Heads-Up ($50K Gtd)
14:00 – $33 NL Hold’em 2x Turbo w/ Rebuys ($300K Gtd)
16:00 – $109 NL Omaha Hi/Lo 6-Max Hyper-Turbo ($100K Gtd)
19:00 – $33 TCOOP Special ($100K Gtd)

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012
06:00 – $109 NL Hold’em ($100K Gtd)
11:00 – $215 NL Hold’em ($750K Gtd)
12:00 – $2,100 NL Hold’em High Roller ($500K Gtd)
13:30 – $320 8-Game ($100K Gtd)
15:30 – $700 NL Hold’em Main Event ($1.5M Gtd)
18:30 – $215 Hyper-Turbo ($300K Gtd)

The Turbo Championship of Online Poker has arrived so if you don’t have a PokerStars account, be sure to sign up through PokerNews. Remember to use the marketing code “POKERNEWS.COM” and the bonus code “STARS600″ and you can receive a very generous 100% up to $600 first-deposit bonus.

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January 15 2012, Mickey Doft

The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller wrapped up Saturday night with Leonid Bilokur topping a field of 148 to capture the title. Bilokur began the final table fourth in chips and stayed out of the way in the early stages while players began to drop.

Team PokerStars Online member Randy “nanonoko” Lew entered the final table on the short stack and despite doubling up twice, he was the first to fall. He picked up in the cutoff and watched as Nicolas Fierro and Jason Koon both re-raised behind him. Unfortunately for Lew, Koon held and quickly called Lew’s five-bet shove. Lew found some help as the flop and turn left him with outs to a flush, but the river ended his tournament.

Michael Telker appeared to be quite card dead during his time at the final table, but found a good spot to shove after the aggressive Fierro opened a pot. Telker, with , shoved from the small blind. Fierro called with and eliminated Telker when the board ran out . Govert Metaal, last year’s fifth-place finisher in this very tournament, busted in sixth place this time around. His ran into Fierro’s and did not improve.

Going into the dinner break, Bilokur commanded a sizable chip lead after winning a big coin flip against Koon. They were the two biggest stacks at the time and tangled in a huge pot. Bilokur four-bet jammed his 53-big-blind stack with into Koon’s . A call from Koon delivered a board to give Bilokur the chip lead.

When the players returned from dinner break, Fierro busted in fifth place when his pocket deuces failed to improve against Isaac Haxton’s pocket tens. Koon followed him out the door shortly thereafter, five-bet shoving into Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel’s . No help arrived for Koon, and he was eliminated in fourth place.

Haxton fell short of heads-up play, getting his stack into the middle with after four-bet shoving against Duhamel. With , Duhamel called and held through the board.

Heads-up play began with Duhamel holding 5,430,000 in chips to Bilokur’s 1,960,000, but the duel was pretty one sided as Bilokur battled back to take the lead and eventually go on to win the tournament. The final hand saw Duhamel three-bet shove with against Bilokur who called with .

An flop all but ended Duhamel’s chances to catch up in the hand, with the turn officially leaving Duhamel drawing dead. For good measure, Bilokur improved to a full house as the landed on the river, and he earned $1,134,930 for his victory.

Final Table Payouts

Although PokerNews’ coverage of the 2012 PCA has concluded, you can be sure to check back to our Live Reporting pages because we’ll be at plenty of tournament stops across the globe just about every week.

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