In October, I said about PokerStars’ Anniversary Spin & Go promotion, “So yeah, you’re not going to win the million dollars, or anything in the upper prize tiers, for that matter, but it’s there and you will likely get annoyed when somebody else wins it.”
Are you annoyed yet?
In the span of about a month, seven players have won a million dollars in PokerStars Spin & Go’s. One winner surprised me, but a half dozen more is just gross.
October marked the one-year anniversary of PokerStars’ launch of the Spin & Go, its version of the lottery Sit-and-Go. To celebrate, the world’s largest online poker site added two affordable buy-in levels, each with a jackpot of $1 million. Here’s a review of the two new options, along with the associated probabilities of hitting the different buy-in multipliers:
Bronze – $0.50 Buy-in
2,400,000x buy-in multiplier ($1,000,000 first prize) – 3 in 100,000,000
240x – 4,000 in 100,000,000
120x – 8,000 in 100,000,000
25x – 50,000 in 100,000,000
10x – 100,000 in 100,000,000
6x – 7,500,000 in 100,000,000
4x – 17,477,003 in 100,000,000
2x – 74,860,994 in 100,000,000
Silver – $5 Buy-in
2,400,000x buy-in multiplier ($1,000,000 first prize) – 3 in 10,000,000
240x – 400 in 10,000,000
120x – 800 in 10,000,000
25x – 5,000 in 10,000,000
10x – 10,000 in 10,000,000
6x – 750,000 in 10,000,000
4x – 1,897,703 in 10,000,000
2x – 7,336,094 in 10,000,000
The $100 Spin & Go’s also award a $1 million top prize, but the prize structure is exactly the same as it normally is. The two above are the ones that are special for the anniversary promo.
As you can see, the chances of nailing the top multiplier and, in turn, winning the three-handed Spin & Go for the jackpot, are essentially zero. Hence, my claim that you won’t win. I mean, I encourage people to go ahead and try if they want to, particularly if they normally play Spin & Go’s, but don’t expect to win.
Except that a bunch of people have won. A dozen players have won a million dollars since Spin & Go’s launched, but seven of those have now come since this promotion started. Those lucky players are:
‘Samara Lúcio’ from Brazil – $5 Spin & Go
‘wrawras’ from Brazil – $100 Spin & Go
‘barrakuuda4’ from Estonia – $100 Spin & Go
‘prophethicks’ from England – $5 Spin & Go
‘handbt1’ from Germany – $5 Spin & Go
‘ifipushud325’ – from Australia – $5 Spin & Go
‘Koovoon’ – from Canada – $100 Spin & Go
The Anniversary Spin & Go promotion is scheduled to conclude at the end of this month.
