It wasn?t long ago that we dealt our 5 Billionth hand here at PokerStars. In fact, less than a year has passed. For us (and for online poker) this was a pretty amazing feat. However, in true PokerStars fashion of pushing boundaries, we are already set to deal our 10 Billionth Hand!
We want you to join us in celebrating this momentous occasion with over $1 million in cash giveaways, WCOOP entries, bonuses, added money tournaments and more. Plus we?re even giving away double VIP Player Points in Sit & Go?s and cash ring games during the festivities.
* 25% Deposit Bonus
* Cash prizes on milestone hands
* The BIG 10 Billion
* Sunday Million and Sunday Warm Up - Added Money
* Trivia Freerolls
* Double VIP Player Points and Frequent Player Points
* Extra Money Added Tournaments
25% Deposit Bonus
As a big THANK YOU to all our players for helping us reach this awesome milestone, we?re offering a 25% Bonus, up to $150, on your next deposit. Simply make your qualifying deposit before May 22nd at 23:59 ET using the bonus code ?10Bhand?. To earn the deposit bonus, a player must earn 15 Base Frequent Player Points per dollar of bonus. This bonus expires in 180 days; the necessary Base FPPs must be earned before the expiration of the bonus.
Huge cash prizes with our milestone hands
Starting with hand 9,900,000,000, we will award cash prizes for every millionth hand dealt - leading up to the first EVER 10 Billionth Hand online! If you are dealt into one of the 100 milestone hands* in a cash ring game, you?ll walk away with a cash prize between $100 and $2000.
Prize Breakdowns on every Millionth Hand:
Limit**
Winner
The Rest
Micro
$250
$100
Low
$500
$200
Medium
$1000
$400
High
$2000
$800
AND if you?re a VIP Club member, we?ve got great news for you. If you?re SilverStar or above and are dealt into any of the 100 milestone hands, whatever cash prize you win will be multiplied according to your current VIP status. So the higher your VIP level, the more you?ll win! See the table below for multiplier details
VIP Tier Milestone Hands Bonus
SilverStar 15% Bonus
GoldStar 30% Bonus
PlatinumStar 60% Bonus
Supernova 120% Bonus
Supernova Elite 200% bonus
For example, you can turn a $1000 prize
into $1300, just for being a GoldStar VIP.
The BIG 10 Billion - What's up for grabs?
Players dealt into the 10 Billionth Hand are in for a treat! If you?re one of the players fortunate enough to be in the hand, here?s what you could get:
* $100,000 cash to the winner of the 10 Billionth Hand
* $10,000 to all other players in the hand
* WCOOP Main Event ticket to all players who?ve been dealt in
Like the milestone hands, prizes will be multiplied according to your current VIP level, which means that hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cash prizes could be won on hand number 10,000,000,000, so make sure you are at the tables!
PokerStars Sunday Million with a difference!
If the PokerStars Sunday Million wasn?t big enough already, then have we got a surprise for you. We?ll be adding $250,000 to the May 20th PokerStars Sunday Million prize pool and extending the payout structure from 15% to 25%.
Not only that, but The Sunday Warm-Up will also get a boost with an extra $100,000 being added. Qualify now from just $3 - visit the Tourney lobby and click on the ?Satellite? tab.
Think you know PokerStars? Show us!
We?ll be running four Trivia Freerolls daily, each with $1000 prize pools, during The BIG 10 Billion Celebrations. Each Trivia Freeroll is password protected, and in order to get the password for entry, you?ll need to answer a question about PokerStars. For full details of where to find the questions, answers and how to enter, click here.
Double Player Points
We?re doubling the VIP Player Points (VPP) and Frequent Player Points (FPP) earned for all cash ring games and Sit & Go?s from May 11th 14:00 ET to May 22nd 23:59 ET. Play as you normally would and you?ll earn twice as many VPPs and FPPs, helping you to climb the VIP ladder and rack up valuable FPPs in double time! Look at the chart below to see how much faster you'll earn FPPs during this celebration. There is no better time to work on building up your FPP account to buy some of our fantastic VIP FPP Store items.
FPPs 100 500 1,000 5,000
BronzeStar 200 1,000 2,000 10,000
SilverStar 300 1,500 3,000 15,000
GoldStar 400 2,000 4,000 20,000
PlatinumStar 500 2,500 5,000 25,000
Supernova 700 3,500 7,000 35,000
Supernova Elite 1000 5,000 10,000 50,000
Even more Added Money
Keep your eye on the Tourney lobby, because from May 12th ? 22nd we?ll be adding a whole lot of extra money to selected buy-in events. For more information, click here.
Thank you to all our loyal players for making PokerStars the biggest and best online poker site. Here?s to another 10 Billion!
If you have any questions about this promotion, please contact us on support@pokerstars.com and we?ll be happy to help you.
*Note: You must be dealt into a milestone hand to be eligible for the prizes. Players who are sitting out during a milestone hand will not be eligible. Milestone hands will only be dealt on cash ring game tables.
** Stakes as broken down in the PokerStars.com software
