- September 28th, 2010
- Frivolous Poker Ramblings, Online Poker News
tbvle recently won over $50,000 as the prize for being dealt the winning hand in the 50 Billionth hand on Pokerstars. He was playing at a 2c/5c table at the time, a level which was his normal stakes. He had never previously played any higher than 0.1/0.25.
As well as this prize money he also got a free ticket into the WCOOP $5200 Buy-in Main Event. Prior to that tournament he had only played 19 tournaments at Stars with an Average Buy-in of close to just $5. Quite a step up.
But that didnt phase him in the 2-day deep structured event and he went on to place 83rd out of 2443 in the $5200 event, winning $19,544. He largely did it by waiting for aces and kings and then launching. The cards seemed to keep arriving at appropriate moments and his stack would again recover from getting short. Sadly that luck did eventually run out, but not before 19.5K was secured. Here was his final hand:
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PokerStars Game #50274474620: Tournament #2010090062, $5000+$200 USD Hold’em No Limit - Level XXVIII (6000/12000) - 2010/09/27 20:05:17 ET
Table ‘2010090062 34′ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: MVPAT (313975 in chips)
Seat 2: FIREintheSUN (493464 in chips)
Seat 3: JabaTheFlop (531835 in chips)
Seat 4: MarkusG91 (1414841 in chips)
Seat 5: deoxyribo (593012 in chips)
Seat 6: Antoshka (407711 in chips)
Seat 7: pedmend (260705 in chips)
Seat 8: plumber922 (409055 in chips)
Seat 9: tbvle (126400 in chips)
MVPAT: posts the ante 1500
FIREintheSUN: posts the ante 1500
JabaTheFlop: posts the ante 1500
MarkusG91: posts the ante 1500
deoxyribo: posts the ante 1500
Antoshka: posts the ante 1500
pedmend: posts the ante 1500
plumber922: posts the ante 1500
tbvle: posts the ante 1500
MVPAT: posts small blind 6000
FIREintheSUN: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
JabaTheFlop: folds
MarkusG91: raises 18444 to 30444
deoxyribo: folds
Antoshka: folds
pedmend: calls 30444
plumber922: calls 30444
tbvle: raises 94456 to 124900 and is all-in
MVPAT: folds
FIREintheSUN: folds
MarkusG91: raises 379100 to 504000
pedmend: folds
plumber922: folds
Uncalled bet (379100) returned to MarkusG91
*** FLOP *** [6h As Qs]
*** TURN *** [6h As Qs] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [6h As Qs 2s] [5h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MarkusG91: shows [Ad Qc] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
tbvle: shows [Kc Kd] (a pair of Kings)
MarkusG91 collected 342188 from pot
tbvle finished the tournament in 83rd place and received $19544.00.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 342188 | Rake 0
Board [6h As Qs 2s 5h]
Seat 1: MVPAT (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: FIREintheSUN (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: JabaTheFlop folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: MarkusG91 showed [Ad Qc] and won (342188) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 5: deoxyribo folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: Antoshka folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: pedmend folded before Flop
Seat 8: plumber922 folded before Flop
Seat 9: tbvle (button) showed [Kc Kd] and lost with a pair of Kings