Stars 5 Billionth Hand

[Robbie Robb]

The 5,000,000,000th hand should hit today. I've got my 18" LCD hooked up to my laptop so I can 8-table the .05-.10NL tables for each milestone period. Man that's a lot of clicking but I've got my lucky TP.com hat on and my fingers and toes crossed!

[Akverno]

How did you get a tp.com hat? TP did you open a black market store and not tell any of us? I'm actually just curious cause your post count is only in the hundreds.

[Robbie Robb]

Bribery! Hehe.

No seriously, I got it for winning the TP.com league last time around.

[Akverno]

Lucky bastard, got my lucky shoes, lucky underwear, lucky shirt. Haven't secured a lucky hat GG robbie, GG.

[Akverno]

Only 3 million hands to go, I'm getting nervous.

[de-coder]

missed it by 832 hands... 4997000832

[Robbie Robb]

The one table I was at missed it by TWO hands. We were over by 2. Grrrr!!!!

Worst part was, I didn't even win the hand:

POKERSTARS GAME #4997000002: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.05/$0.10) - 2006/05/20 - 15:35:26 (ET)
Table 'Tisiphone IV' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: u768211 ($1.40 in chips)
Seat 2: Robbie Robb ($2.90 in chips)
Seat 3: nailman6 ($6.35 in chips)
Seat 4: jake013 ($3.20 in chips)
Seat 5: Hardtocatch ($1.30 in chips)
Seat 6: totalpetrol ($5.35 in chips)
Seat 7: SF PezHead ($5.25 in chips)
Seat 8: derekh23 ($3.55 in chips)
Seat 9: firstech ($3.55 in chips)
totalpetrol: posts small blind $0.05
SF PezHead: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Robbie Robb [6s 6c]
derekh23: folds
Robbie Robb said, "missed it by TWO!!!!!"
firstech: folds
u768211: folds
u768211 leaves the table
SF PezHead said, "we missed it by 2!!"
Robbie Robb: calls $0.10
nailman6: folds
jake013: folds
Hardtocatch: folds
totalpetrol: calls $0.05
Hardtocatch leaves the table
SF PezHead: checks
*** FLOP *** [7c 3h Ad]
jake013 said, "f"
totalpetrol: checks
SF PezHead: checks
jake013 said, "f"
jake013 said, "f"
jake013 said, "f"
jake013 said, "f"
jake013 said, "f"
Robbie Robb: checks
*** TURN *** [7c 3h Ad] [8c]
totalpetrol: bets $0.10
SF PezHead: folds
SF PezHead is sitting out
jake013 said, "wow we are dumb"
Robbie Robb: calls $0.10
*** RIVER *** [7c 3h Ad 8c] [8s]
derekh23 leaves the table
firstech leaves the table
totalpetrol: bets $0.20
Robbie Robb: calls $0.20
*** SHOW DOWN ***
totalpetrol: shows [8d Kd] (three of a kind, Eights)
Robbie Robb: mucks hand
totalpetrol collected $0.90 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $0.90 | Rake $0
Board [7c 3h Ad 8c 8s]
Seat 1: u768211 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Robbie Robb mucked [6s 6c]
Seat 3: nailman6 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: jake013 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Hardtocatch (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: totalpetrol (small blind) showed [8d Kd] and won ($0.90) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 7: SF PezHead (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 8: derekh23 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: firstech folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Bleh. Note: I normally wouldn't play this hand this particular way, but when you're clicking like a madman across 8 windows things have a tendancy to slide. I'd have most likely dumped it on the turn when I didn't hit my set.

[Akverno]

I missed once by 150 hands, twice now by about 500, and half a dozen between 800-2000. All I know is that I'm going to be 16tabling it if possible for 5 billion.

[bunny]

I haven't won any Milestone hands but I've playing many different limit tables.

Was playing in 6 but going a bit nutty, so settled on 4 tables now.

+$42 so far and counting...this is fun! lol

Nikita - Mind my asking why most people (including yourself) are sitting out? What's the advantage in that, if any?

edit: Scratch that last question, Nikita. You're sitting out till the next "milestone hand" is called aren't you? Smart, but I'd rather be making money while I sit and wait.

[lightfungus]

20 minutes till a possible 50k falls in your lap, get on if you aren't on yet! Keep in mind its hard to get on a table with like 10 min to go...

[omahilo]

the 5 bill hand just went down, have no idea who was involved but I know it wasnt me lol

[bunny]

What a time for my connection to give out, with 10 mins to go.

But I checked my 6 tables and none of them won. Still made myself $63 multi-tabling.