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2. Poker Star Spin And Go 1 Million Dollars
3. Poker Star Spin And Go 1 Million Little Things

Earlier this week, PokerStars hit its biggest jackpot in a $5 buy-in Spin & Go. The prize pool was $2.2 million. Yes, you read that right! The likelihood of such a multiplier getting triggered is 1 in 20 million. PokerStarsSchool 1 year ago in Spin & Go. Let’s review all the action from one of six PokerStars Spin & Gos turning the winner into a Millionaire while awarding $100k to 2nd and 3rd place. In this video ‘wrawras’ wins one million on a PokerStars Spin & Go! POKER MILLIONAIRE NUMBER 2 - LET'S REVIEW IWONTMILLION SPIN & GO POKER #2 - YouTube.

PokerStars’ Spin & Go tournaments have been a source of controversy since they debuted on the world’s largest online poker room in September 2014. Many long-time, high volume “regulars” hate them, as they are seen as mostly exercises in luck and have drawn traffic away from games that said regulars play for a living. There is no denying the popularity of the lottery Sit-and-Go format, though; they are lightning fast, low-cost, and give players the opportunity, however slight, to win much more money than they would otherwise be able to with a small buy-in. Three players can now certainly attest to the latter point, as the largest Spin & Go jackpot was hit on PokerStars yesterday.

Before getting to the details, let’s review quickly how these Spin & Go’s work. They use a rather unusual format for Sit-and-Go’s: three-handed, hyper-turbo (three minute blind levels), and very short, 500-chip starting stacks. They are quite affordable for most players, with buy-ins of $1, $3, $7, $15, and $30. The big difference, though, between these tourneys and regular Sit-and-Go’s is that the players do not know what the prize pool is going to be until the tournament starts. Once all three players are registered, spinner appears on the table and displays the prize pool. Most of the time (about 70 percent of the time), the prize pool will be just twice the buy-in. There are seven other prize pool multipliers, though, going all the way up to 3,600 times the Spin & Go buy-in (the multipliers were slightly different before the New Year).

For most of the prize pool multipliers, the winner of the tournament takes all. At the highest three levels, though, PokerStars adds another 20 percent to the prize pool. That 20 percent is divided between the second and third place finishers, while the entire regular prize pool goes to the winner.

Last month, PokerStars run a series of promotions during its December Festival, one of which was the $1 Million Spin & Go promo. For the promotion, PokerStars added a special $5 Spin & Go tier that dramatically increased the multipliers for the top two prize tiers, highlighted by the grand prize of a 240,000x multiplier. And because PokerStars adds 20 percent to the top three tiers, that meant that should a table spin the big one, the winner would receive $1 million while the other two players would cash in for $100,000. The chances of getting lucky, though, were essentially zero, as that top multiplier was programmed to be hit an average of only three in every 10 million times. That is .00003 percent of the time.

Nobody hit the jackpot in December, but fortunately for players, PokerStars decided to extend the $1 Million Spin & Go promotion party of the December Festival through the entire month of January. Lo and behold, that was just what three players needed to make it happen.

Yesterday, players “sss66666” from Russia, “geldduvel” from Belgium, and “Nonko999” from Bulgaria put down their $5 and were shocked to see the spinner land on the longest of long shots, 240,000x the buy-in. The winner of the tournament was going to cash in for a million bucks.

The game lasted about thirteen and a half minutes and in the end, it came down to sss66666 and geldduvel for the million; Nonko999 had to sit on the sidelines either content with $100,000 or kicking himself that he couldn’t hold on. Sss66666 had knocked out Nonko999 just two hands earlier and had a ten chip lead on geldduvel. The two didn’t do much pre-flop, content with seeing the flop of A-8-9, all spades, on the cheap. Sss66666 check-raised and then moved all-in when the J

So, that’s over. But no it’s not. Remember, PokerStars has extended the $1 Million Spin & Go promotion until the end of January, so there is still time to win. Really, there is no time to win, since the chances of hitting the jackpot are nil, but hey, it happened once, and if you like Spin & Go’s, might as well play the $5 version for a shot at glory. If it makes you feel any better, you probably aren’t going to hit a multiplier of 10x the buy-in or higher, either, as the probability of spinning any of the top five multipliers is less than half a percent…COMBINED.

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A microstakes online poker player from Russia has become a virtual millionaire after winning the first-ever $1 million “Spin & Go” on PolerStars. The player, screen-named “sss66666” but not as yet otherwise identified, took down a million-dollar first-place prize after being randomly selected as one of three players vying for the million-dollar first-place prize.

The win by “sss66666” marks the first time that the randomly awarded, million-dollar first-place prize has been hit in PokerStars’ January-long Spin & Go extravaganza, in which at least $5,000,000 in prizes are scheduled to be paid out to players who pony up a $5 dollar entry fee.

Spin & Go tourneys are a hot new SNG format being offered by PokerStars. Rolled out late last year, the popular hyper-turbo, three-person events give each player only 500 chips to start and just seconds to act on each round. The result is that any given event is over in minutes. The game featuring “sss66666″‘s big win, for example, took only 13 minutes and 26 seconds, meaning that the Russian player earned a whopping $12,406.95 per second.

The second- and third-place players received healthy consolation prizes as well, despite not cashing in on their huge opportunity. According to a Stars presser issued soon after the random prize was hit, “runner-up ‘geldduvel’ from Belgium and third-place finisher, ‘Nonko999’ from Bulgaria, both received $100,000 for their respective finishes.”

Normally, the non-winners of the three-player Spin N Go tourneys don’t receive a consolation prize, though Stars has changed the rules during the month-long promotion. Players lucky enough to hit one of the three biggest payouts (the complete payout table and odds are below) win something, win or lose.

For “sss66666,” fortune struck in a big way. The odds table below shows that the million-dollar Spin & Go format pops up only three times in each 10,000,000 events that are played, which isn’t quite on the scale of a huge lottery win, but is only a single order of magnitude or so less than that. From there, “sss66666” still had to win the tourney, which seemed unlike when he dropped half his chips early on.

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According to a brief report from veteran PokerStars reporter Brad Willis, “sss66666” then surged to the win, knocking out both “Nonko999” and “geldduvel” over the space of just six hands.

The magical Spin N Go hit was quickly announced site-wide over throughout the PokerStars client, with a mass of online fans swooping in to watch the final hands play out. Nearly all the chips were in play in the final hand, which started with “sss66666” having just a 10-chip lead. When he hit the flop hard, as shown, the game was all but over:

As both PokerStars and many onlookers noted, the win by an otherwise-anonymous Russian player evoked memories of another random, massive Russian win. Back in 2012, in the main event of Stars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), Russian player Marat “Maratik” Sharafutdinov, turned 40 Frequent Player Points (FPPs} into over $1 million by winning that illustrious tourney. “Maratik” drew attention by repeatedly proclaiming “I wont million” late at the WCOOP final table, when negotiating a possible chop.

The current Spin & Go promotion at PokerStars doesn’t allow for chops, because of the fast pace and the consolation prizes that are being awarded. Nevertheless, both the promotion and the new concept have proven a popular boon to the world’s largest online poker site, which has seen a resurgence in interest in so-called “hyper” SNGs among casual players due to the new, lottery-evocative format.

Here’s the complete list of odds for the current Spin & Go promotion. As one can see, the odds are quite long against connecting into one of the top-paying tourneys, but when it happens, as “sss66666” can now attest, it’s a life-changer.