yush recs wont mirrion obv

A troll distribution would be
1 million
199.995$
5$ (or worse 4.99$ and 1million 1 cent for first or 199.995.01$ for second)

No, stars added money to this prizepool.

Regardless of result still would be pleased with $100k! Imagine if 2nd and 3rd got $0!!! That would be something else haha

2nd and 3rd would be pissed until they realized they actually had 100k and still didn't know what to do with that much.

kinda sketchy username IMO. anyone know anything about the player? For some reason i wouldn't doubt if it wasn't some recreational player but associated with some huge ring of hackers....

almost surely his graph would be a giraffe graph no?

Perhaps I misunderstand your comment. There is no money added as far as I know. It works in the same way the other Spin&Go do, with expected payouts being 7% less than buy ins over the long run.

I thought the same as you, and in addition to that, at the time I did my inquiring I thought that the 1m games had a hard deadline of dec 31.

Originally I was wondering what was going to happen to the proportion of the prizepool that was being allocated to the 1m prize if it did not occur, which was fairly likely given the small time frame that the games were given to run. When I asked stars support they confirmed that while this is how regular spin and go pools work, in the case of the 1m dollar games, they were adding money to the prize pool. The way it was explained is that if the 1m prize is hit and not enough games have been played to accrue enough 'extra' buy ins to cover the million, stars would add the extra cash.

Also your statement is slightly misleading here, spin and goes have a rake of 5%; only the 1m games have a 7% rake.

I would have to see a statement from them to understand what they meant. I guess they were talking about the case where it hit a $1 mil payout before they had collected that much from the "rake". According to their web page, it works in a similar way as the regular spins.

Yeah, my wording was not the best. However, not all regular spins are 5%. The $15 and $30 spins are 5%, $3 and $7 are 6%, and $1 spins are 7%.

The rake and the prizepool are seperate from each other. The games work just like all the all spins, except the highest multiplier is 200 000x instead of 3600x or whatever it is. So in order for the 1m to be accrued just from buy ins, 200 000 2x $5 dollar games would have to run without any of the multipliers in between 2 and 200 000 ever hitting. I'm not sure 200 000 $5 spins have even run yet, though it's possible. Given that these are a limited time offering, it would be unlikely to be possible to give away the 1m without adding money to the prizepool.

Okay, I see what you're saying. That's just them absorbing the variance which is exactly how the normal spins work too. You're right that in a short-term promotion with the $1m payout there is a much higher probability of a net loss for them (in which case they would "add money" to cover it). I guess when I think of the phrase "money added", I think of it being a sure net loss for them, like when they add money to tournaments.

Grats to the $1 million winner!

Lol, what?

Wait, what? Why wouldn't 4th be the one jumping off a bridge?

there's no 4th ugh

these things are fun as hell too

Are you aware that this is the exact reaction everyone has every time you post?

‘geldduvel’

3 days have passed since that $1m score, so this guy has plenty of money in his account and he hasn´t played a single tournament since then?

WTF?

Did the account get suspended for the period that it takes Pokerstars to complete security procedures?

I imagine after winning 1m dollars the last thing that is on his mind is playing more tournies...

Yeah, who would ****** want to play poker wheb you are spending a milli. To busy with hookers and blow obv.

win $1m and i self exclude for life

This. If I won I would self exclude the very minute the tournament was over, cash out and find ways to use that million wisely to give my self every chance of never having to work while living a richly experienced life.

Belgian player geldduvel (second place finish) is also a freeroll player w/ avg stake of $0.62 over 1800 games

Yea, how about that..what a coincidence.
Would never hear about it if this was so. Just like you have never heard of any significant compromise/hack since the sites inception. Its a much better business decision to keep these things hidden...there are billions of dollars to be made. Any transparancy whatsoever regarding hacking would result in the immediate death of an online poker company imho.

With all the hacking in the news lately, maybe Stars/Tilt should get into the security consulting biz imho. After all, their software is 100% secure and has been for 15 straight years (as far as the public knows anyway). The Pentagon and NASA probably called them after their security breaches Im sure.

Also, dont expect a legit/fair/objective discussion regarding this topic on a poker forum website whos very existance and continued success/popularity is driven by online poker either...imho..an attempt to start such a discussion would immediately be dismissed as rigtardedness imo.
Hes saying there is some sort of pattern the game has and it can be learned to cheat it, and dont tell on him or investigate, just learn the pattern and profit.