Stars 5 Billionth Hand

[jillaj]

All the details are here.

Free money and double your normal fpp's. It's a total crap shoot but it's free.

[eejit101]

kewl, anyone fancy working out what the odds of being dealt into that hand is?

[GeoffM]

The 2X points is a fantastic promotion, other than that, winning money is a complete crap-shoot. But looks like I'll be having a massive week and a half. I still have like $500+ of bonuses stacked on Stars .

[Talking Poker]

That is one sick promotion.

My question: what if the milestone hands end up being tourney hands or on the play money tables? Do they just not pay?

I never play cash games at Stars - only tourneys. I may have to make an exception for this double FPP crapshoot though.

[GeoffM]

This is a good question. In the past, they have excluded tourneys and sitngos from the hand cash payout.

Also, TP, this is a fantastic bonus, especially if you have bonuses stacked on Stars currently. However, I am pretty sure the FPPs aren't doubled for tourney entries, and are only for ring games. I will advise.

[Aequitas58]

Speaking of FPPs...

Does anyone use them? Tournament Entries? Merchandise?

[Robbie Robb]

From support:

Hello Robert,

The system never allocates a round number million hand history to a tournament - it always goes to a ring game, play money or real money.
Therefore, it can't occur in a tournament.

I hope this helps, but if you have further queries, please do not hesitate to let us know.


Best regards,

Andrew
PokerStars Support Team

Mystery solved!

[Robbie Robb]

I just spent 500 on an Isabelle Mercier poster. It arrived a couple days ago!

Of course, now I have to get back up to 500 for that freeroll...

[GeoffM]

I'm actually holding on to mine. I believe when you have a certain amount, you can set up private tournies and such.

TP, how many do you need to have this ability? I think it was like 1800 or so, and I am certainely in that area.

[Boobie Lover]

I used to buy electronics with the FPPs (like my fabulous Ultrasharp 2001FP monitor), but now their electronics store sucks. Now, they hardly get any of my play.

[Talking Poker]

I'm actually not sure. I've been able to do it since the first time I tried. I thought it was like 3k or something though... Don't quote me on that. I don't know if you need that many in your account or if you just need to have earned that many lifetime though. I suppose I could spend all mine and find out.

I've spent some on a few small things, plus I've used them to play in some of their big FPP satellites - I actually used 10k to play in one of their WPT PCA satellites (or was it 2? I think it was 2). I still have 7k+. I know that's nothing compared to the high rollers, but for as little as I play on Stars, it's a lot. I can easily clear one of their $120 bonii in just a matter of days, thanks to them giving points for tourney play. I remember furing the WCOOP last year, it worked out to them pretty much paying my first $120 in tourney entry fees.

Thanks for getting that info there, RR. Good to know!

[GeoffM]

Hey guys,

From what I've heard, sitngos as well as tournaments are indeed also clearing at 2X FPPs. This is one hell of an offer as I know in the past this was not happening.

[Robbie Robb]

I can confirm that SNGs ARE clearing at 2x FPPs. I'm getting 6FPPs for the $6.00+0.50 turbos.

[GeoffM]

Wait, so you are getting 6 FPPs for the 0.50 buyin?

Interesting, they usually only give 5X the fee, rounded up to 3. Hmm, that would make it 12X the fee.

I'm licking my chops as we speak. I'm thinking running $5+0.50 and 4 tabling.

[Robbie Robb]

Yep. They've just straight up doubled the existing ones. So the $15+1 are worth 10 FPPs each right now.

[JDMcNugent7]

I have 81,000 FPP's. I've bought into 1 Sunday tourny with them and think I might do that from now on since they dont really have anything else I would want.

EDIT: Actually i was just lookin through the FPP store again... I think I might have to signup for one of those SIngle Table Tournament with a star things for 15k FPP. It's either Hachem, Raymer, Mcevoy, or Moneymaker and the payouts are sweet...
1st: $1,000, 2nd $500, 3rd $300, 4th $200, Plus a $250 bounty on the stars head.
Plus I could say I played in a tournament with one of them. lol

[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.

[Akverno]

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

[de-coder]

missed it by 832 hands... 4997000832