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12-22-2016 , 09:59 AM

#26

Tutejszy

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Originally Posted by 4-Star General

@youriw21
What's the EV of playing when the jackpot is 750k compared to the cash bonus in the store?

his calculations already assumed that 7sc = 0,07$, which is value of cash bonus in the store. What did you think he was calculating?

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12-22-2016 , 10:09 AM

#27

4-Star General

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Originally Posted by Tutejszy

his calculations already assumed that 7sc = 0,07$, which is value of cash bonus in the store. What did you think he was calculating?

ty, I thought since it was stated that you are going to lost 50% of your SC I thought, +EV means, win 0,001 of SC every time we bet one of them

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12-22-2016 , 11:12 AM

#28

Crumblepie

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Originally Posted by onebiggrind

it's disappeared for me after restarting now. I live in New Zealand. Has this happened for anyone else? I hope I'll still get money if someone hits the jackpot for the third time.

It is gone now on Pokerstars.be as well.

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12-22-2016 , 11:48 AM

#29

Esa_Perse

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From the sw thread :

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Keith

Correct, Sonic. The Deal has been taken offline temporarily for technical reasons and should be restored shortly.

Technical reasons : Somebody hit that jackpot allready.

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12-22-2016 , 11:52 AM

#30

LOLNHDONKWP

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Keith can you get that bs removed from your lobby?

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12-22-2016 , 03:25 PM

#31

CanYouSpareACnote?

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Originally Posted by Crumblepie

It is gone now on Pokerstars.be as well.

Crap. I just solved it.

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12-22-2016 , 03:34 PM

#32

youriw21

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So it hit twice already?

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12-22-2016 , 03:50 PM

#33

youriw21

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Originally Posted by 4-Star General

@youriw21
What's the EV of playing when the jackpot is 750k compared to the cash bonus in the store?

When the JP is 750K the EV in a 70 coins game is about $ 1,15. As coins are limited (except for Jorj95) you better save them for when the jackpot is really high instead of playing when it passed BE point. At some point it may be worth to play the 7 coins game every 12 hours.

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12-22-2016 , 05:24 PM

#34

Mr Invisible

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Does Stars take a cut from this promo? If not, surely this promo can't be -EV like people suggest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comme..._deal_jackpot/

In this thread Jaime Staples made an interesting comment:

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Well it's money coming from other people playing it more then once. My understanding is 3c jackpot 3c prizes 1c next jackpot. jackpot is broken down 50/50 winner and all participants.
3coin comes back in non jackpots prizes
1coin goes to the next jackpot (a loss of 1coin if you miss it)
1.5coin goes to progressive winner (even chance)
1.5 coin goes to everyone that played (this is where we make money because your chances are not improved for this pool by playing more then once. So you contribute 1.5coin and someone contributes 100 coin you are +ev)

So hence, does this ring true about whether it is +EV?

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If you follow the rule of playing only every 12h for 7 starscoins then it most definitely it is. The money comes from the people playing way more than just once every 12h.

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12-22-2016 , 05:30 PM

#35

AuroraCee

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I "grinded" this joke for an hr for the LUL's , lost 1000 star coins and didn't make better then 1 pair !!!!!! how is this allowed on the poker side ???

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12-22-2016 , 05:54 PM

#36

4-Star General

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Originally Posted by youriw21

Ty a lot

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12-22-2016 , 08:29 PM

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RudolphtheNose

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Wait, i dont get it ? Is it still on or not ?

Last time i checked before server reset it was it almost upto 130k.

And then it magically dissapeared from the client.

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12-22-2016 , 08:30 PM

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OhEllNo

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Originally Posted by AuroraCee

I "grinded" this joke for an hr for the LUL's , lost 1000 star coins and didn't make better then 1 pair !!!!!! how is this allowed on the poker side ???

can all of you old gambling addicts stop whinning about this game ??? its an ev+ game for smart people.

oh no i cant control myself, i lost my house boo tha ****in hooo

Last edited by Mike Haven; 12-22-2016 at 08:48 PM.

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12-23-2016 , 05:21 AM

#39

ESKiMO-SiCKNE5S

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Originally Posted by onebiggrind

it's disappeared for me after restarting now. I live in New Zealand. Has this happened for anyone else? I hope I'll still get money if someone hits the jackpot for the third time.

I just went in and couldn't find it. Also in NZ

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12-23-2016 , 07:40 AM

#40

Kelvis

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Does it come with lube?

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12-23-2016 , 09:51 AM

#41

Esa_Perse

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Originally Posted by Mr Invisible

In this thread Jaime Staples made an interesting comment

You really think stapler would say something negative about stars promo?

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12-23-2016 , 02:26 PM

#42

Mr Invisible

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Originally Posted by Esa_Perse

You really think stapler would say something negative about stars promo?

No but I don't think he'd straight up lie either. He's just telling people how to profit from it, like he might tell people how to profit from tournaments in his streams.

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12-23-2016 , 02:46 PM

#43

RaiseAgainst

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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=27015

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Keith

FYI - Regarding "The Deal"

Based on some prior posts, I think there has been a little bit of confusion / misunderstanding about this game, so here is some background information:

The Deal is a progressive jackpot game that we’ve been offering on FullTilt since 2015 and are now offering to both FullTilt and PokerStars players.

Our website explains the rules here:

https://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/the-deal/

The Deal is a zero-sum game with all entry fees going back into the prize pool. In other words, the house does not rake this game. The prize pool is allocated as follows:

For every 7 StarsCoin used to play The Deal, we add $0.028 to the progressive jackpot - 77% goes into the current jackpot and 23% is set aside for future jackpots.
The rest is distributed to players in the form of regular prizes.
Each jackpot starts from $25,000.

When someone hits the jackpot, the prize is split with 50% going to that player and the other 50% being shared equally among all players who participated in at least one hand in The Deal over the previous 12 hours (the distribution is an equal share, regardless of the number of Deal hands played).

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12-23-2016 , 02:54 PM

#44

Neurotoxin

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I just played and good lord is it boring. Slow deal and you "win" -5 coins with a pair about every 3rd hand.

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12-23-2016 , 04:43 PM

#45

sump

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Originally Posted by Esa_Perse

You really think stapler would say something negative about stars promo?

LET'S GO

Spoiler:

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12-23-2016 , 06:45 PM

#46

TrustySam

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Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 3,198

Anybody else just get $1.23? lol ...

Guess that's a lot lower than the shared payouts used to be on Full Tilt, where there was hardly any traffic ...

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12-23-2016 , 06:49 PM

#47

SemiFreddo

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Originally Posted by TrustySam

Anybody else just get $1.23? lol - a lot lower than the shared payouts used to be on Full Tilt, where there was hardly any traffic ...

Yeah just got the same.
If that's correct it means that 78k ppl played it last 12hrs

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12-23-2016 , 06:53 PM

#48

TrustySam

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Originally Posted by SemiFreddo

Yeah just got the same.
If that's correct it means that 78k ppl played it last 12hrs

Wow, guess $103k doesn't go very far if there was *78k* of us splitting the pot

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12-23-2016 , 09:21 PM

#49

OhEllNo

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Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 153

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Originally Posted by TrustySam

Wow, guess $103k doesn't go very far if there was *78k* of us splitting the pot

its because its ''new'' but i wonder how many people will play per 12h on a average day....

i think we are still screw compared to the ftp only.

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12-23-2016 , 09:23 PM

#50

human

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 318

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Originally Posted by Monteroy

I was actually surprised this was available in Canada, as sports and casino are not as far as I know. I was not sure if it would work, but it did, and I guess I will quit while ahead having made a whopping $1 with my flush on the first hand.

I assume the odds are horrid on this game (would not be hard to check), but a dormant account with 14 starcoins will have something to do in theory.

I don't immediately see it available in Australia. Not that I've really gone looking too hard - if it's not easy to see in the main client. It did come up in my 'news' feed.

I don't believe Aus Stars hosts the Casino games either.

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