PokerStars hand # 4.97B milestone thread

[Silent A]

Same routine as before.

I'll post my current best estimate:

10:30 pm ET

I'll update this at 8:30 pm ET (or maybe earlier if it looks like things are going very fast).

Get together 45 to 60 minutes prior.

AIM works great. See you later.

[HedonismBot]

Have you been able to get many tables going that consistently fold around?

[ImsaKidd]

What is the EV/table for this bonus? Like $.25??

[thing85]

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Have you been able to get many tables going that consistently fold around?

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Earlier, 6 of us were on 8 tables and had perfect, consistent folding going. Worked really well. If I'm around here later tonight when the next milestone approaches, I will post here and organize another group to do 8-table folding.

[jjigglers]

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What is the EV/table for this bonus? Like $.25??

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I'm guessing there's about 250-300 active tables during bonus time. With 6 people at the table, 5 get 2k, 1 gets 5k. 15k/6 people is 2.5k per person.

You have a 1/250 to 1/300 chance of getting it, which is $8-10 per table, I would assume by posting and folding, increase your chances at least 2x, so the EV should be much higher, eh?

Is there something wrong with my calculations?

[4_2_it]

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I'm guessing there's about 250-300 active tables during bonus time.

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There's currently over 9,000 active tables. Assuming half are play money and tourneys, that still leaves 4k+

[ImsaKidd]

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What is the EV/table for this bonus? Like $.25??

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I'm guessing there's about 250-300 active tables during bonus time. With 6 people at the table, 5 get 2k, 1 gets 5k. 15k/6 people is 2.5k per person.

You have a 1/250 to 1/300 chance of getting it, which is $8-10 per table, I would assume by posting and folding, increase your chances at least 2x, so the EV should be much higher, eh?

Is there something wrong with my calculations?

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I think your table calculation is off by a factor of 10. 9k active tables right now, even if 2/3rds are tourney/play money, thats still 3k tables.

[Dennisa]

OK lets take 3K tables. Its worth about a buck per table at 6 max since the winner of the hand gets 5K. At 8 tables its now worth 8 bucks and by folding you increase your chance by 2.5 times so around 15-20 bucks per go around. Stars is doing this 30 and I will probably participate around 20 of them so there is probaly a 1:7 to 1:9 chance of getting 2K or more during the promotion. My roll is less than 1K, I need to take hour breaks twice a day, so its not so bad.

YMMV, but then again, I am king idiot during the party spooky tickets promotion, I am just addicted to free money.

[Silent A]

There are 9217 active tables right now, of these only about 1300 are cash ring games. This is much fewer than I expected.

The qustion is how many tables open up just before the milestone. I'll watch this next time.

[Silent A]

BTW, hands are moving a bit slow right now. Looks like the next milestone will be closer to 11:00 pm ET.

I'll post my final estimate between 8:30 and 9:00 ET (it depends when I can get free from other duties).