Everyone that hits a royal flush gets to spin the wheel. The chance of hitting a royal flush is the same as the chance of being dealt a royal flush in five card draw. Tou can ignore that you remove two cards from seven cards. When you spin the wheel you have a one in 8 chance to hit tje jackpot. Your chance of hitting the jackpot is approximately on in 2 million.

Interesting that the deal isn't in the uk, you guys have any idea why.

Trust me I'm not playing this trash but just curious since most things gambling are green lighted in the uk.

Hmmm not sure taxes that made us get kess ffps or something idk interesting seen a few under their name highlighted won deal when hovering over alias . Strange we dont get it tho

Yeah I mean I think it's something to do with that.

No idea how taxes are factored in for stars coins in uk. Might do some looking into it.

To be fair it's just more info, more info available on players the better.

This sounds roughly accurate. But the jackpot has already been hit several times already because the deal has already been played millions of times since its launch a few days ago. Needless to say, Stars has far more customers playing the deal than Full Tilt, so faster games and more frequent jackpots, but at the cost of the prizes being much smaller (since the jackpot share is divided between many more players). So whilst on Full Tilt you might only win every couple of months but win $100 from the jackpot share, on Stars your share might only be $1 but you will get this every day or so. So all in all about the same I reckon but I could be wrong.

http://online.casinocity.com/article...pot-won-124472
From this website I discovered normally on the Full Tilt version of the deal the prize share per player is only around $20 every couple of months - the recent $165.95 was an anomoly (unexpected result). So for Pokerstars to give each player who participates a jackpot share of around $1 every couple of days translates to roughly the same $20 figure over a couple of months. So the deal on Pokerstars is probably no better or worse than the Full Tilt one. Smaller rewards per person, but far more often.

In before Pauly's next post with 57 more questions.

Any way to turn the stupid gold animations off? These indicate a deal winner.

Yes, log off pokerstars

It amazes me how Pauly can repeatedly ask the most simple and basic questions that can be found by simply reading the dozen posts immediately before his, and yet people still bother to respond.

Hes actually the worst poster on any forum i have ever come across. Contributes zero while asking a few thousand questions google can answer. Quit poker and go into the IT trade seems you have a natural flair for it.

what do i need to get in this i just hit four aces and won 30 stars coins.... my heart jumped thinking i hit the jackpot xd

u won $30 not 30 starcoin. congratz

What's the jackpot amount where it becomes +EV to spend your StarsCoins on this promo? Is it around $300k or so?

all the calculations here and in nvg are wrong for one simple reason - the ev of playing is completely dependant on how others are playing (ie if they spin more than once every 12 hours). In this sense it is actually a game of skill. Since we don't see those numbers it's hard to estimate, but I'm pretty sure it's massively +ev to spin for 7 cents every 12 hours, even with the starting jackpot of 25k. Judging by how often jackpot has been hitting so far, it could be as much 500-1000% roi on 7 cents investment (with the way others are playing).

I think it's odd that we have a 300k pool now when all the last days somebody hit the wheel whenever we got past 100k and often also at 50-90k.

whats the point with "removing 2 cards from 7 dealt"??
isnt it the same as "get dealt 5 cards" and hope you win something (which is what happens when you play 2-10 times right?)

Makes you feel you have statistical control over outcome when you don't (in reality).

Probs this is done to make more poker players attracted to it since they have a choice unlike if they were just cards and that's it.

Make that 400k now...

snowball effect of course. everybody who doesnt care for this thing at ~80k might get interested at 200k+

hi,

i played some deal hands which should be eligible for share of those 50%. they were played just before jackpot was hit. but support keeps telling me my hands didnt qualified. what do you think?

this is what you can see on their page:


and this you can see on actual table:


so i contacted support and was asked for log files. those should determined what time i played my hands. and they answered:

i clearly played my hands in the time frame of 12 hours before jackpot was HIT as it is required on their site in the rules and also on the table. i told them this is unacceptable and its not my fault that they messed up their own rules. they rules dont say anything about cut-off hand or anything related to that. i never heard from them since. it is two weeks now.

i understand that they messed up, but i think they should pay what was promised. its not about money, i just think this is about principle. pokerstars need to honour their word these days.

what do you think?

Lol during the deposit bonuses they were giving a while back i got a popup saying i had won $20k. Turns out this was a error and i had won $20 and i got zero extra. It seems their wording is wrong but the cutoff to have played the deal sound correct. Hardly seems right that people can see the wheel is about to spin in the next 30 seconds and quickly play it does it.

Puma

They need to choose a time to cut it off. They want to advertise when a player is dealt a jackpot hand to build excitement. If they set the cutoff point when the wheel lands on the jackpot, people would rush to get hands in once the jackpot hand is dealt, thereby stealing equity from people who had played the previous 24 hours.

It's unfortunate that they worded it as they did. But I assume in their rules they clearly defined what the cutoff point would be. And it's not like you played under false assumptions, it's all chance anyways. You just saw that you gut unlucky and missed it by a minute and are trying to argue in your favor. If it was on the other foot and you made it by just 30 seconds, I doubt youd be emailing them trying to give the money back.

i just truly believed i would be payed. i assumed they have no problem with people rushing to play in last few seconds, it could be taken as promotion/little bit more of rakeback for players (since its such little sum after all).
because of this i ask them to refund those few stars coins, since i was mislead. they never answer back :/

whatever, i think i should survive without those few bucks i just wanted to see what others think.

can someone PLEASE tell me how to disable that ****ing wheel popping every now and then? I had it off, then my settings were reset thanks to the .log file bug and I accidently clicked that I wanna see the weel - now I can't disable that **** and it's popping out of nowhere during my sessions