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Old 12-25-04, 09:16 PM
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Default Stars 1,000,000,000th hand...

So, I hapened to log on to Stars a little while ago, only to see they were past 999,850,000 hands. Figured this was as good a time as any to play, so I sat down at four $2/$4 NL tables.

I didn't get dealt in to the winning hand, but I did win about $650 in the process

One of my tables was just 56 hands early of the big one... and I had won the previous hand. Guess I should have waited just a hair longer before making that last bet, huh? Oh well...

BTW, the winner was playing at a .05/.10 table. Right now, he's sitting at a .02/.04 table. It's hilarious. The stacks at his table are:
.15
.29
.57
.53
.08
.24
........ and $55,010.

LOL. There are also about 100 railbirds begging him for money. A small price to pay for 50 Gs...

Cool promo. Kudos to Stars.
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Old 12-25-04, 09:34 PM
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Default That's so cool

Talk about a happy holiday. What are the logistics of that? Do you withdraw it 9k a time over a period of months to avoid the tax man?

Congrats on the 650 as well TP. That's very impressive for 2/4, even four tabeling. How long did that take?
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Old 12-25-04, 09:52 PM
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$2/$4 (blinds) *NL*... Didn't take long at all. This hand certainly helped:
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Old 12-25-04, 10:00 PM
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Default The sickest HH I've seen in my entire life...

I doubt I'll even be able to cut and paste this all into here, but it's pretty historic, so I'll try:

PokerStars Game #1000000000: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2004/12/25 - 20:52:30 (ET)
Table 'Walhalla' Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Bluewave ($4.10 in chips)
Seat 2: mvdgolf416 ($6.65 in chips)
Seat 3: phil steve ($3.60 in chips)
Seat 4: mrhappy530 ($3.70 in chips)
Seat 5: thechipster ($3.40 in chips)
Seat 7: S.N. Bigfoot ($5.30 in chips)
Seat 8: r3vbr ($3.25 in chips)
Seat 9: Paparow ($7.05 in chips)
Bluewave: posts small blind $0.05
mvdgolf416: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***

Ok, turns out the HH is way too big to paste here.... literally thousands and thousands of lines of observer chat (request it and see for yourself)... so let's just get to the summary:

*** RIVER *** [5h 2d Qd Ac] [7c]
...
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $29 Main pot $18.60. Side pot-1 $0.70. Side pot-2 $1.15. Side pot-3 $4.55. Side pot-4 $2.55. | Rake $1.45
Board [5h 2d Qd Ac 7c]
Seat 1: Bluewave (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: mvdgolf416 (big blind) showed [3h 3s] and won ($8.95) with a pair of Threes
Seat 3: phil steve folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: mrhappy530 showed [2h Kh] and lost with a pair of Deuces
Seat 5: thechipster mucked
Seat 7: S.N. Bigfoot mucked
Seat 8: r3vbr showed [7s 5d] and won ($18.60) with two pair, Sevens and Fives
Seat 9: Paparow (button) mucked
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Old 12-25-04, 10:01 PM
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BTW - Pretty col that this ended up hapening on Christmas Day...
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definatly be nice to get 50 grand while playing at the .05/.10 tables lol
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Apparently there was a big argument too. 1 guy was sitting out and PS didnt notice it and gave him the $5000.. then about 100 guys started to yell and scream *like it's their money* and PS, by law, had to take it away.

Ouch..
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it was a cool promo... closes I got to any hand was 19
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Old 12-29-04, 03:54 AM
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I think I need a change in strategy for some of these online promos. You actually need to play the lottery to win right, lol?!!
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Old 12-29-04, 06:12 AM
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Must Say.

This was a good idea by pokerstars and the tables were full. I was playing the max allowed 5, with no luck in hitting one of those elusive hands.

I really do think that a huge freeroll tourny would of been more suitable though with the biggest online cash prize, but then I suppose pokerstars would of lost all the rake revenue from all those players at the time.

Still it was a promotion they didnt have to do, so it was nice to see a site giving its members something back....I would suggest though that they stole the idea from TP....

Jim.
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