


The $1,050 Main Event was won by a player with the handle of ‘ L1VeYRdrEamS‘ who took home $400,000 in prize money along with a Platinum Pass to the PSPC. The winners of the first ever Turbo Series not only had a great time online but also went home with nice cash prizes. Turbo Winners Take Home Loads of Cash And Platinum Passes These are for the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC), which is a $25,000 buy-in event scheduled for January 2019 in the Bahamas. Besides the immense prize pool, PokerStars also gave out three of its much sought after $30,000 Platinum Passes. The real highlight of the Turbo Series was three events that had prize pools exceeding $1 million. The Turbo series had 74 events with various levels of buy-ins ranging from $11 to $5,200. PokerStars confirmed that 46,581 unique players participated in the online series. The Turbo series received a great response from poker players and PokerStars confirmed that they received an extra $10 million in buy-ins and ended up paying out more than $25 million in prize money for the entire series. The TCOOP was replaced by the Turbo Series and tournament organizers expected the tournament to have a $15.6 million prize-pool guarantee. PokerStars surprised a lot of poker players earlier this year when it decided to replace one of its crown jewels and scrapped the popular Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP). PokerStars, the biggest online poker website in the world launched and ran a very successful Turbo Series from February 18 to March 4. The Stars Group, the parent company of PokerStars recently announced that its Turbo Series turned out to be a massive success and raise a lot more money than the online poker giant had estimated.
