PokerStars 500m hand

Poker Jet · #1 06-21-2004, 02:03 AM

Im interested in getting a group together (like 2+2 did for Paradise's 500m hand)

Anyone else interested?

largeeyes · #2 06-21-2004, 02:31 AM

What did you guys do for paradise's? I was at 500,000,008 and won that hand(it was nice to get AKs when it really mattered).

MicroBob · #3 06-21-2004, 02:56 AM

it was very tough organizing the group for the paradise promotion.

additionally, the head-to-head tables qualify for the big hand on pokerstars (they didn't on paradise).

almost every micro-limit head-to-head player knows what is going on....it's kind of tough getting on them though because they are limited.

but i don't recommend going for a big group because it probably isn't worth it for this one.

Don't forget, you need to have played 10FPP since Thursday or else you won't get the prize.

MicroBob · #4 06-21-2004, 04:31 AM

i missed by two lousy hands on the last one (499.2-mil). arrrrgh.
we had hand 499,199,998 (but i did win $0.02).

and i played with someone else who had missed by 1 on the previous milestone.

on head-to-head, hands were increasing at about 300 or so.
this was late at night so maybe more hands in because of that. EV is definately better for this if you are an insomniac and willing to play it out at 5am or whatever.

on 4 tables of head to head....each with a 1 in 300 shot for an average prize of $1550 ($2600 WCOOP entry if you win the hand....$500 if you don't).
so late night it's more like $5 per table....total of $20 of EV there for 4 tables (would have been on 5 tables...but one of my guys was sitting-out through the whole thing).

you can round it down to about $4 per table during the day-time because of increased traffic.

the BIG one obviously has much has much higher EV....but is partly negated by the fact that it should draw more players as well.

my predictions (eastern time)...
499.3 - 5:30a
499.4 - 8:00a
499.5 - 10:15a
499.6 - 12:30p
499.7 - 2:30p
499.8 - 4:15p
499.9 - 6:00p
500 - 7:30p

keep in mind that my predictions for the paradise 500-millionth hand were off by only SEVERAL hours...so i really have no idea what i'm talking about.
i think i predicted the 500-millionth at around 4pm for that one and i think it hit at 9pm or so.

MicroBob · #5 06-21-2004, 05:21 AM

well, tried to anticipate it would be slower....but still missed it bt a lot.

at 5:20 they're only at 52k...not even close to the next milestone.
im going to bed for now. will play it if i wake up