Pokerstars Road to 100bn - 85th Billion Hand

[Pascal]

Pokerstars is coming up to another milestone with free money being given away every 1 millionth hand!

You can see the full information on this page along with a live counter of the hand number:

PokerStars Road to 100 Billion, 85 Billion Hand Celebration

The big question is - how do you maximize your chance to win? My personal tactic is to move down to 5NL and play as many tables as I physically can when it comes close to the milestone. Given there's $10,000 cash added (or double that if you win), the VPPs don't seem quite so important!

[Cobra_1878]

I have been watching that but haven't seen anything about 10,000 being added every millionth hand. Comes up saying last hand won £426.89 or whatever, so where does the 10K come into it?

[Pascal]

The formulas are as follows:

Milestone: Any Hand Ending in 000,000

Dealt: (# of VPPs in last 50 hands x $60) + $20 = Cash Prize
Win: (# of VPPs in last 50 hands x $60 + $20) x 2 = Cash Prize

Mega Milestone: Hand # 85,000,000,000

Dealt: (# of VPPs in last 50 hands x $1,000) + $10,000 = Cash Prize
Win: (# of VPPs in last 50 hands x $1,000 + $10,000) x 2 = Cash Prize

The VPPs play more of a factor for the million hands so I'm not sure what the best tactic for those hands would be, higher stakes means more VPPs but you'll want to play less tables...

[Cobra_1878]

Oh wow, is this gonna end after the 85th billion hand for a few months or will it just continue up to 100 billion with a mega milestone every 5 billion hands?

[Pascal]

Up until now it's been every 5 billion so I guess it'll probably stay like that!

It's also worth noting that Zoom hands don't count.