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PokerStars: 65th Billion Hand

October 22, 2011

While the poker world is preoccupied with the Main Event at WSOP 2011, the online poker room PokerStars is chugging away. The tribulations of the recent months following Black Friday have slowed down the progress on the Road to 100 Billion, but have not deterred it from the path.

The next mega milestone on the road to 100 billion is 65 million. The payouts will begin from the 64.7 billionth hand. Thereafter every millionth hand milestone will award prizes to the participants in that hand with the 65 millionth hand awarding mega prizes. Players dealt into a milestone hand win a cash prize of $50 for every VIP Player Point they earned in the previous 50 hands played on that table in addition to a base prize of $50. The winner of the milestone hand will get the prize doubled. There will be 300 regular milestone hands before the 65th billion mega milestone hand. In the mega milestone hand, all players dealt in will be rewarded $500 for every VPP earned in the previous 50 hands plus a base prize of $500. The winner of the mega milestone will have his prize money doubled, and will also receive a bonus of $65,000.

The first milestone hand is expected to be dealt on Monday, July 18. The mega milestone hand has been forecast to be dealt around Tuesday, July 25. This promises a bonanza week for PokerStars players. The 60 billionth mega milestone hand was dealt on March 22 and was won by “Pogo650” from the Isle of Man. He took home $102,090 at a $5/$10 Limit Hold’em table. The other players dealt in the hand each collected between $11,040 and $21,045 depending on their VPPs, and close to $200,000 was awarded in total.

Like other indicted online poker rooms, PokerStars has had subdued representation at the WSOP 2011 Main Event. Its most high profile representative Daniel Negreanu finished 211th position with a cash prize of $47,107. PokerStars has come out of its crisis in an admirable manner. It has paid back players in full. Its licensor in the Isle of Man has assured all customers that their funds are safe and that it fully supports PokerStars.

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