PS: 10 Billionth Hand Promo Details

[Elvis57]

The main stack player

[batair]

The best hand wins

[AA Suited]

so what happens if the 1millionth hand ends up in play $ or sng?

there were a couple of times when there wasnt an annoucnement that table xxxx is the millionth hand. WHY?

[Lyrrad]

They make it so every milestone hand happens at one of those tables. You can request a hand history of those hands to see this yourself.

[iH8poker]

I'm pretty sure SNG are excluded...obviously doing mad heads up tables would be the best at mile stone time...0.25 rake, for like 24 tables = $6 in rake and roughly 2400 hands per hour...but it doesn't work, pretty sure. Not enough rake involved.

Play may be different.

Oh...well here it is "If you are dealt into one of the 100 milestone hands* in a cash ring game"

[iH8poker]

Love the bloody Alice B--T--W

So this Deposit Bonus is like 33% rake back? Stars use to do 5 x vpp to clear, now 15 x vpp...of course that is when they were fighting with Party. Now, it's just easy money.

I see these 15 x vpp offers coming up more often, like once a month or two like party was doing.

And what is the difference between milestone hands and jackpots? Yea jackpots they take extra rake but it's the same concept. Stars is low on bonuses and low on rake, so I like that but all the same, I like GOOD redeposit bonuses...I'm not depositing this time READ: Lives in USA, and will just work my winnings from the SNGs and HeadsUp.

The only good thing I can say is that the New Year bonus thing at 10x vpp is like rake free since I'm clearing it now...and all you super nova peeps have a much better shoot now...and how long 'till they hit 15 billion??

[Borgland]

all tourneys and play money tables are excluded

[RoundTower]

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They make it so every milestone hand happens at one of those tables. You can request a hand history of those hands to see this yourself.

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so it is rigged, then?

[Yoshi63]

The system will simply skip to hand 9931000001, 2, 3, ect.. or whatever if it lands on a playmoney/tournament table I think.

[Lyrrad]

Presumably what they do is: When the hand is reached, if the next hand isn't a cash game, give the next hand xxxx000001. Then the next cash game will get the xxxx000000.
So, it should be fair to the cash game players.

Edited to add:
Updated stats on Cash game percentage:
Used hands 9932012000-9932012099 (Sample size 100)
22% Cash Games
34% Tournaments
44% Play Money

8% margin of error (95% confidence) on the cash games value