Monday, November 14, 2005

Duh.

Party Poker Blog:

"Subject: Did you see this about the 3 Billionth hand at party On Monday night, the world's largest online cardroom, Party Poker, dealt its 3 billionth hand. Prior to the big hand, and as an incentive to get players to celebrate with them, Party announced a prize opportunity for the players involved in the 3 billionth hand. The hand occurred at 10:51 EST on a $0.50/$1.00 limit hold%u2019em 6-max table.Everyone at the table immediately scored $10,000 for being in the 3 billionth hand. An additional $50,000 was set aside for the person who would go on to win the hand. Humorously, 4 of the 6 players at the table folded before the river. Apparently the 10,000 :1 odds on their money to chase a miracle runner-runner were not appetizing enough to warrant a call. At least one player was clearly aware of the situation at hand proclaiming 'we did it' in the chat box before the flop. The same player folded after the flop."


OK lemme sort this one out for you. There's six players at the 3 billionth hand to be dealt on Party Poker. Each one of them instantly gets a $10K bonus. The winner of the hand gets an additional $50K. This is .50/1.00 Limit Hold-Em. The max pot is like 10 bucks. So they were all ready up $10K on the hand with a chance at $50K. Why not play for the miracle? So you lose eight bucks on the hand... for a chance at $50K? I think that would be worth it when you're all ready up $10K.

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