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Poker Stars Hits Its 10 Billionth Hand
And a nineteen year old Canadian student gets the payout
Over 100 000 pokerheads were on the Poker Stars.com tables this
weekend, hoping they would be at the right time and in the right
seat for the 10 billionth hand of online poker, imminent at the
world's biggest online poker venue (see previous InfoPowa report).
The march up to the big hand was impressive from the 9 billionth
hand onward, with a series of rewards building excitement and interest
at the tables, but the ultimate winner of the $100 000 set aside
to mark the occasion turned out to be a nineteen year old Canadian
student using the handle Justine0003...and she didn't immediately
realise that she was the luckiest player in cyberspace!
Playing six handed one cent/two cent Justine and her five fellow
players must have caught their collective breath when their screens
popped the message "Welcome to the biggest hand of 1¢/2¢
ever!" Four of the six went for it, the board ran out Ac-Kc-Td-9c-8h,
and the lucky Canadian tabled 3c-8c for the flush and the $100 000
win.
The win didn't immediately register with Justine0003. "It
was a total fluke," she said. "I didn't even realize that
it was the major big hand right away. I thought it was just another
one leading up to it! I'm just really thankful and feel extremely
lucky," she said in the understatement of the day.
Justine, a social poker player for the last four years plans to
spend the money on her education but will be blowing some of it
on shopping, too.
The other players at the table, Rechargeable, inwooke, The_Moog,
XTedForrestX and Ferius may have just missed the big one, but there
was a hefty consolation prize of $10 000 for each to soften the
disappointment.
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