Blink and You’ll Miss It! PokerStars Turbo Series Returns
April is going to be a massive month for online poker tournament specialists with several festivals and series taking place. There’s the $50 million guaranteed GGSeries, partypoker’s POWERFEST extends to April 19 with the 2020 Irish Open Online starting April 12. Now there’s another festival in the mix after PokerStars revealed its schedule for the 2020 Turbo Series.
Turbo Series, formerly the Turbo Championship Of Online Poker, or TCOOP for short, is usually pencilled in for January, but that slot was taken up by the Bounty Builder Series. The 2020 Turbo Series shuffles up the first of its fast-paced events this Sunday, April 5.
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It runs through until April 19 and guarantees at least $25 million will be won by the time the 114th scheduled event has crowned its champion. This gives Turbo Series an average event guarantee pushing $220,000.
This edition of Turbo Series doesn’t feature any tournaments with a buy-in of less than $11, which is a little disappointing for micro-stakes players, but there are a myriad of satellites available.
Each of the 114-events has a turbo or hyper-turbo blind structure, as the festival’s name suggests. The vast majority of the Turbo Series events are No-Limit Hold’em, although there are a sprinkling of other variants including Pot-Limit Omaha, No-Limit Omaha Hi/Low, Limit Hold’em, 8-Game, H.O.R.S.E. and 5-card Omaha.
Surprisingly, there’s no 6-card Omaha events despite PokerStars introducing the action-inducing format earlier this year.
Players can test their skills across several formats including traditional tournaments PKOs, Zoom, and Deep Stacks.
Two Massive Main Events
April 19 is the final day of the series and PokerStars signs Turbo Series off with a bang.
A $5,200 buy-in High Roller kicks off at 7:00 p.m. CET and carries a $750,000 guaranteed prize pool. Two Turbo Series Main Events will also bring players out of the woodwork. Both shuffle up and deal at 8:30 p.m., one costing $55 and the other $1,050.
The $55 buy-in Turbo Series Main Event boasts of an impressive $1 million guaranteed prize pool with those competing in the $1,050 buy-in Main Event playing for a share of at least $2 million.
