Stars 5 Billionth Hand

[JDMcNugent7]

Today I actually used 62,000 FPP's to buy my mom a $1,000 shopping spree at , some fancy little store. I def. dont think it was the best way to use the points but it's cool getting ur parents something from poker so they see just how great the game is and she liked it alot too.

[Talking Poker]

Very, very, very nice of you! I think that's great.

[dagreek23]

Wow. That's Sick. I think PokerStars has done a very good job celebrating the milestone hands because it brings more people to the site to try and get some incentives if they hit a milestone 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.

[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.