PokerStars TCOOP Begins January 21

On January 21, PokerStars launches a new season of TCOOP, or the Turbo Championship of Online Poker. This year, there’s a total guarantee of $15 million. With the help of MacroPoker, 2CardsCollege analyzed the statistics of the previous three series and present the most interesting stats and number they found.

TCOOP Stats

We are examining the three last TCOOPs: 2013, 2014, and 2015.

Year by year, the number of the unique players in the series has decreased. There were 84,000 entries in 2013 versus 73,000 in 2014 and 51,000 in 2015.

There were a total of 596,446 players registered in TCOOP events during those three years.

181 players entered more than half the tournaments in the last three years.

21 players entered more than three-quarters of the tournaments.

The biggest tournament of the series is typically the first one, a $27 Six-Max event. In 2014, it had 25,590 participants. This year, it has a ‘Phase’ format. Phases 1 and 2 are being held every day throughout January, while Phase 3 will be held on January 21.

For the three series, PokerStars has collected $3.745 million in rake from TCOOP events.

The guarantee of the Main Event hasn’t changed; it has always been $2 million. In 2013, the Main Event had 5,060 players. In 2014, there were 4,600. In 2015, there were just 4,169.

Thus far, no one has won two TCOOP tournaments in a row.

Country Participation at TCOOP

The number of unique players by country:

  1. Russia: 24,799
  2. Germany: 17,107
  3. Canada: 12,986

This distribution has remained the same for about three years, with Russia always being the leader in number of players. Fourth and fifth places are shared between the UK and the Netherlands.

According to the ITM results, the top three countries are the same:

  1. Russia: 9,532 (12.67%)
  2. Germany: 8,422 (13.23%)
  3. Canada: 6,996 (13.74%)

Out of the top 10 countries participating, the highest ITM belongs to Denmark. 3,997 unique players from Denmark have reached the money in 14.48% of attempts. Denmark is also in the top three countries in ROI out of the largest TCOOP participants (more than 1,000 of unique players):

  1. Slovenia: 79.96%
  2. Denmark: 40.03%
  3. Sweden: 14.31%

We’re mentioning the “biggest countries” because the biggest ROI was actually achieved by players from the Dominican Republic, which has a population of 74,000. Two poker players residing there have played 10 tournaments and generated an ROI of 10,228%. In second place is Cyprus with three participants, who have an ROI of 1,101%. Out of the five main countries participating in TCOOP, only one has a positive ROI:

  1. Russia: -16.51%
  2. Germany: -5.4%
  3. Canada: -12.77%
  4. UK: -6.27%
  5. Netherlands: +7.65%

Individual Player Performances

The only player who took part in all 150 TCOOP events for all three seasons is Mike ‘goleafsgoeh‘ Leah.

Mike Leah

The top three grinders:

  1. Mike ‘goleafsgoeh’ Leah: 150 tournaments
  2. Scott ‘Mongy’ O’Reilly: 146 tournaments
  3. Tot ‘SlyderS1’ Bela: 142 tournaments

Scott ‘Mongy‘ O’Reillyenters the top three in terms of ITM%. The highest ITM% among TCOOP regulars belongs to Russia’s ‘ImluckNuts‘ at 35.16%. In 91 TCOOP tournaments, he made the money in 32 of them. The top three looks like this:

  1. ‘Imlucknuts’: 91 tournaments, 35.16%
  2. Mario ‘Pokerccini’ Puccini: 118 tournaments, 21.6%
  3. Scott ‘Mongy’ O’Reilly: 146 tournaments, 17.53%

Mario Puccini

‘CandyJohnson‘ has recorded the most number of final table appearances. He reached the top nine a total of five times during his 136 TCOOP tournaments played. His biggest cash in the series was a second place in a $7.50+R 3x Turbo for $51K.

‘rtspurs‘ made four final tables and won one, an $82 PLO event for $24.7K. Eight players have made three TCOOP final tables, including top regulars TJ ‘1BigAceHole‘ Ulmerand ‘Assad91‘.

Now let’s check out the biggest money-earners. ‘Nikki_Hefner‘ leads the way in this department, and he’s a cash game player who rarely plays tournaments. He has only 114 tournaments played in his career and won the biggest TCOOP Main Event to date:

  1. ‘Nikki_Hefner’ (Russia): $396,615, 2015 Main Event champion
  2. ‘Jeremiade’ (Germany): $382,812, 2013 High Roller champion
  3. ‘riversouza’ (Brazil): $363,119, second place in the 2015 Main Event
  4. ‘blaaesh’ (Denmark): $336,341, third place in the 2014 Main Event
  5. ‘frma1103’ (Sweden): $326,880, 2013 Main Event champion

That’s all, folks. After the January series, we’ll write a more detailed report on the 2016 TCOOP.

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