Just watched hand #24.9 Billion at $0.25/$0.50 Limit Hold Em. Full nine players in the hand--Six players folded pre-flop. Winner had 8-3 off and won with a pair of 8's.

how long did it take to go from 24.85 to 24.9? 1 day?

About a day and 6 hours.

Is anyone else noticing that the games are flippin' awesome right now? Tons of action to be had on the midstakes PLO tables (2/4 thru 5/10). Wonder how much this promotion/reload bonus has to do with it. Very curious to hear what others experiences are right now.

At this rate, the 25 B hand would occur at around midnight or very early monday morning

ummmm.... many more players and games Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday

we'll go through hands faster than the last 36 hours

It's funny how the waiting list for a table that's being dealt a milestone hand suddenly gets flooded despite the hand being in progress - it even increases after the hand is finished. Proof, I think, that there really are some droolers out there.

25B hand Sunday 3:00pm - 5:00pm, imo.

was just at table with milestone


Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players - View hand 38211
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CO: $8.75
BTN: $61.55
SB: $52.80
BB: $20.45
UTG: $126.80
UTG+1: $39.25
Hero (MP1): $50.00
MP2: $7.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP1 with 5 8
UTG calls $0.50, UTG+1 raises to $39.25 all in, Hero raises to $50 all in, MP2 calls $7.50 all in, SB says "lol", Hero says "o **** misclick", 1 fold, BTN raises to $61.55 all in, SB says "lol", 2 folds, UTG calls $61.05

Flop: ($220.60) Q 3 7 (5 players - 4 are all in)

Turn: ($220.60) A (5 players - 4 are all in)

River: ($220.60) 9 (5 players - 4 are all in)

Final Pot: $220.60
BTN mucks K K
UTG shows 4 A (a pair of Aces)
UTG+1 mucks Q T
Hero mucks 5 8
MP2 mucks J 6
UTG wins $23.10
UTG wins $32.25
UTG wins $125.90
UTG wins $36.35
(Rake: $3.00)


so sweet. <3 stars

what are the odds of me hitting the milestone hand bonus if i 24 tabling HU nl1k and keep folding the blinds? is it considered as cheating? is it allowed?

here's a milestone hand i jus witnessed



Poker Stars $1/$2 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 2 players - View hand 38291
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gangip (BTN/SB): $41.00
Simplicity8 (BB): $39.00

Pre Flop: ($3.00)
1 fold

Final Pot: $3.00
Simplicity8 wins $2.00
(Rake: $1.00)


winner got $2700

No -- and they just robbed the general populace of pokerstars of a chance to win it.

lol

PokerStars Game #24917000000: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2009/02/13 23:42:24 ET
Table 'Fides' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: AAindaBB ($205 in chips)
Seat 2: gplayer_unit ($113.25 in chips)
Seat 3: matze1987 ($225 in chips)
Seat 4: DerkDerk ($79.45 in chips)
Seat 5: element64 ($202 in chips)
Seat 6: fooligan dan ($268.40 in chips)
fooligan dan: posts small blind $1
AAindaBB: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
gplayer_unit: calls $2
matze1987: raises $223 to $225 and is all-in
DerkDerk: folds
element64: folds
fooligan dan: folds
AAindaBB: folds
gplayer_unit: folds
Uncalled bet ($223) returned to matze1987
matze1987 collected $7 from pot
matze1987: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $7 | Rake $0
Seat 1: AAindaBB (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: gplayer_unit folded before Flop
Seat 3: matze1987 collected ($7)
Seat 4: DerkDerk folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: element64 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: fooligan dan (small blind) folded before Flop

unbelievable

This has to be doctored. Someone folded preflop playing PLO? and HU? GOOD TRY CHESSKID1

anyone want to 24 table hu limit holdem?

is this HU stuff confirmed to be allowed by Stars?

This is posted in the other thread, but I'll share it here too. I sent an e-mail to Stars with a specific hand number that was obviously fraudulent:

Thank you for your email.

In order to be eligible for the milestone hand, each player must be
actively playing at the table. In order to be dealt into the hand you must
have at least played one set of blinds.

Folding many hands is a style of play and cannot be judged as fraud.
There is nothing wrong with playing in the hope of getting the milestone
bonus. That is half the fun!

I trust to have alleviated your concerns and thank you for choosing
PokerStars.


Regards,

Pasquale
PokerStars Support Team

Me. .50/$1 = "low" stakes tier. Start in 20 minutes or so, when the milestone hand gets close? (under 75k or so?)

Gogogo?

Does anyone know what playing blinds mean? Does at least one hand need to be played?

stars is really failing here

Before I heard PokerStars' stance on the issue I felt that this was against my morals. I feel it puts me at a significant disadvantage not to play in an optimal way that is deemed legal. Sure the odds of hitting the bonus are not that great either way but there's still an edge.

A lot of the fun this promotion brought for me was getting on as many short-handed fast tables I could get on and mega-tabling games I usually wouldn't (being primarily a SNG player playing cash games for the promotion). Slamming on a fold button as fast as you can takes a lot of that away... Perhaps there is a better way to celebrate "nth" billion hands that wouldn't attract this type of play.

At least one person knew what was going on.

I suspect most people dont know about the promotion/aren't paying attention to their chat box.

From 7pm est to 1:15am est on friday night-sat morn we went through 10 million hands, we still have 80 mil to go as of now,

Still gonna get there by sunday morning? I say noon-2pm sunday.

With Stars current position on the HU fiasco occurring, Why is ANYONE playing full ring for a milestone. Auto fold at HU. Discouraging.