Sal ‘ugritaly’ Fazzino won his second 2016 TCOOP event

Two players managed to win their second title of the2016PokerStarsTurbo Championship of Online Poker on Wednesday. Out of four events held, half crowned repeat winners. Who said skill is marginalized in turbos, anyway?

Sal ‘ugritaly‘ Fazzinowon Event #28 of the 2016 TCOOP, an $82 No Limit Hold’em tournament with an optional re-entry. Six days prior, he took down Event #3, a $215 No Limit Hold’em Progressive Ultra Knockout, for $58,000. On Wednesday, his second TCOOP title of the series was worth another $31,000, so he has had a productive week. A total of 698 players in the 1,935-man field re-entered, pushing the total prize pool to almost $200,000.

Fazzino was third in chips when the final table started at 1.5 million, with the field trailing the 4.1 million belonging to ‘max-horror‘. However, by the time heads-up play rolled around, Fazzino was up 3:1. On the final hand, Fazzino drew out on A-10 with J-8 after flopping an eight to win his second 2016 TCOOP title. He is up to almost $2 million in career online tournament winnings and is the top-ranked player in Western Australia.

The other double TCOOP winner on Wednesday was Toronto’s ‘buzzard1881‘, who took down an $82 Fixed Limit Stud Hi-Lo Turbo for $9,300. He also won Event #6, an $82 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Turbo Shootout, for $17,000 and he has five tracked wins in January, raising his career winnings to almost $200,000.

In Event #29, TJ ‘1BigAceHole‘ Ulmerplowed through the field of a $215 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Shootout Progressive Super Knockout and earned $18,000 along with his second COOP title. Ulmer outlasted four tables and pulled away three-handed in the final one. In the last hand, Ulmer’s K-J withstood 10-8 after the board missed everyone. He also won a SCOOP High Roller Event in 2014, making Event #29 his second COOP victory.

TJ ‘1BigAceHole’ Ulmer won his second COOP title

Also winning on Wednesday was Ukraine’s Stanislav ‘Shtopol’‘ Wright, who won a $7.50 Pot Limit Omaha 3X Turbo for $17,000. There were 12,322 rebuys and 1,417 add-ons, lifting the total prize pool to $111,000. The top two finishers were both from Ukraine. Wright lives in Kyiv and recorded his largest online poker cash to date on Wednesday. He almost had a second TCOOP title this year as well, as he was the runner-up in the second event.

TCOOP Event #28: $82 NL Hold’em Turbo, Optional Re-Entry

2,633 entrants (1,935 entries, 698 re-entries), $197,475 prize pool

  1. ugritaly – $31,202.54
  2. max-horror – $23,434.35
  3. Seven_DV – $16,785.37
  4. Loxagos – $11,552.28
  5. SimonToronto – $8,787.63
  6. villepn – $6,812.88
  7. TiltStarter – $4,838.13
  8. gpainn – $2,863.38
  9. flip flop250 – $1,678.53

TCOOP Event #29: $215 NL Hold’em Six-Max Shootout, Progressive Super-Knockout
1,178 entrants, $117,800 regular prize pool, $117,800 in bounties

  1. 1BigAceHole – $18,848.36
  2. PALblCH – $14,136.00
  3. Skrb1c – $10,602.00
  4. Zagalo87 – $7,068.00
  5. seppo1k – $4,712.00
  6. STELARI198 – $2,921.44

TCOOP Event #30: $7.50+R PLO Six-Max 3X Turbo
2,578 entrants (12,322 re-buys; 1,417 add-ons), $111,281.94 prize pool

  1. Shtopol’ – $17,528.56
  2. petro_popovi – $12,797.42
  3. DaMethod – $9,458.96
  4. SwizzHawk – $6,120.50
  5. damourinio – $3,894.86
  6. DoEasyMoney – $2,108.79

TCOOP Event #31: $82 FL Stud Hi-Lo Turbo
665 entrants, $49,875.00 prize pool

  1. buzzard1881 – $9,361.85
  2. admiralph – $6,733.12
  3. 7PRS – $4,987.50
  4. l0serking14 – $3,740.62
  5. SiiliSuhonen – $2,493.75
  6. jasonpavlich – $1,745.62
  7. viking47 – $1,122.18
  8. tvtotaliwin – $748.12