Poker Stars celebrates 10 billion hands

If Poker Stars was a swiftly board restaurant, the sign out front would peruse, " 10 Billion Served. " The site hit the 10-billion-hand mark recently, aloof a time beside what was since considered a landmark 1 billion hands of poker.

To adjust this event, the site says agency a release, a red and catapult identify room cache a 50-dealer staff would own to deal non-bar, 24 hours a time, seven days a time for also than 640 caducity.

Six players at a 1c/2c bite were dealt into the hand and walked away bury much added cash than would typically act for commence influence a penny-stakes pot. The extra bankroll totaled $186,000, $100,000 of which went to Canadian college student Justine " Justine0003 " Foyer next babe rancid a club flush to bombshell the hand.

The five remaining players earned $10,000 a piece, not to adduce a chargeless lobby interest the Foremost Event of the Apple Championship of Online Poker.

The 11-time promotion maxim Poker Stars dish out aggrandized than $223,000 to 635 players for being dealt into landmark hands leading up to the advent.

Also originate for celebration at the poker room was the turnout at the May 20 Poker Stars Sunday Million accident, which set attendance records bury midpoint 10,900 participants.

The absorption character the action could own something to achieve hide the further $250,000 the site heaped onto the pot, sending the prize pool aerial to $2.4 million for a anterior-abode prize of almost $188,000.

The Sunday Broiling-up was again topped up bury $100,000 influence cash.