Agreed. Once this 100B promo is over, I'm switching to iPoker.

what a fine business is this, stars should make millestone hands every ****ing day, they make in rake more than they giving away lols

winner of hand at 2 cent 5 cent gets 100k min? lol ****in amazing


in before someone folds

It's on!

And it's the Greek who wins it! That has to be good news.

everyone at 2cent 5cent gets a share of the million dollars?? going to be alotttt of good midstakes NL games today lol I would not leave the house for the next 3 days if I was a NL grinder



ahh maybe not only 84 dollars average per person, not sure if people on multiple tables for that limit would get it for each seat

I thought he'd ship like million, only 100k? really?

Well other than the winner they're getting 13k max, so wouldn't say the midstakes will be crowded.

E: 1M spread all around, atleast 100k for the winner, 10k for the others in the table, rest spready around across others playing the same games.

If it hit at midstakes each would have got considerably more due to the number of vpps they'd earnt in the previous 30 mins right? Like 100k each and 200k for winner?

no idea, but if that's the case, I'm shocked the hand took place at .2/.5 NLHE

Well the 800k+ left from the hand was spread between the players at that stake and limit so stars' damage was always going to be 1m.

yeah for sure chuck, i cant remember what they said the $/vpp earned they were giving out but i think it was alot but like ggrj said they were giving 1 mill away no matter what to the people at the stakes it hit. Obv the higher the limits the less people that win money from it/bigger the payouts for each. Also I think they paid the other people at that same limit out on vpps they earned over the last 50 as well so def alot more value at midstakes for regs maxing out vpps earned on a bunch of tables


As someone else said in bbv thread would be curious to see if you were on 24 5nl tables that you got 24 unique shares or if GTO would have been to play 1 limit of each game type and pretty much be assured some share although you would have wanted to cap out on vpps earned in the last 50 hands and probably end up losing a bunch trying to mix in every limit lol, I probably would have done 2nl-2knl mixed with 2plo-2kplo if i was trying to get it

It was pretty clear that the hand would hit micro stakes Hold'em as the most popular game. More people the million is distributed to plus weaker players -> easier to rake it back in no time.

You have to be super naive to think that the milestones hit randomly.

2K/VPP in addition to 10K minimum for each participant and 100K minimum for the winner. They paid out like 1.8VPP on average per player for that table for the qualifiying last 50 hands.


One share per player, ~9700 players won ~$84. 6-max, 9-max, HU and euro tables were all counted in.

I played one table of each Omaha variant in the 0.50/1 - 3/6 range to maximize chances but it was not meant to be And I actually won quit a bit too, people are terrible in those hi/lo games.

PS. Boy, are there a lot of Omaha variants right now?! 4 cards, 5 cards, Courchavel and hi/lo for every one of them...it was insanely difficult to even realize what game you play at the particular table, every hand decision started by reading the info of the table at the top of the window

They just got tired of their own crap and silently admitted that they don't give a **** about the long term health of the games. They'll just try to squeeze every dollar out of the economy before they're overtaken as the industry leader by a new strong competitor who will crush them on the US market.

do you really think its rigged towards stakes? wouldnt it be prob more =<25nl tables running than all of pl/omaha tables combined?

as joey said, its not like it cost them money any which way. 1m gtd, during which they make heaps, so why would they care? just seemed like a lotto

...and maximizing the number of happy customers.

You are too cynical ant, cheer up.

I got 8 bucks for my effort to win the 100b hand. Lost $30 in the process~
I was planning to mass table 5nl too but It wouldn't let me sit so I sat in a bunch of plo tables

ty stars

would be nice to see the stakes for every major milestone hit, from what I can remember its always been really low , I know there are way more tables running but I had a feeling it wasn't all that random

Stars wants to make money. They probably made more money through rake than what they gave away during the Milestones hands given so much more players played.

I mean there is simply no reason to deal the 100th Billion hand at nosebleeds where Galfond probably ships it anyway and gives zero back to the community because he is unbeatable. Now of course the Greec guy can cash the 100k out, but the other regs still have those 10k who were at the table. Chances are just higher they will keep the money in the system.

People actually think stars rigged the billion hand promo to be dealt at microstakes? Wow.

People really think stars has a penny to give away as a gift?

Don't think stars would risk that kind of hit to their reputation for a measly couple mil. And like you say insider they probably made way more in rake than they gave away in promos. Which makes assuming they rigged it even more ridiculous.

if stars plan was to give milestone at stake to make games better, i think they would do it at 100nl or 50nl, where people would actually take shots at 200nl 400nl .

guys at 5nl are busto and will cashout everything.

That's what they want you to think