Several members of PokerCollectif were probably in full grinding session yesterday evening around the midnight, just before the distribution of the famous hands on PokerStars! Obviously, there was something wanting to play on a possible maximum of tables because the person who won 70 billionth hand won at least $ 70,000. In short, a nice freeroll! The limit at which we played was no importance (or almost no). The $ 70,000 was fixed and the only criterion was the need to win the hand. The only advantage to play earlier was that the more you play top, more you pay rake and more you'll earn VPPS (each VPP at the Court of the last 50 hands is rewarded with a $ 50 cash bonus).
It is finally heads-up 50nl players who have had this chance! The lucky two are «koenigskebap» with Lao and «DodgeUrOuts» with K5s. Both players went all in preflop (luckily for them, person a folde hand). The final table was A42K6 which gave the best hand in 'koenigskebap' and a $ 73,380 gift.
At the end of the hand, in chat, were full of players screaming "Cheaters!" This is obviously something intriguing. Before you continue, I'll let you listen to this video so you can see and understand.
In short, the author of the video shows us that the players were previously agreed for auto-folder all their hands prior to the distribution of the winning hand. They were 24 auto-folder heads-up tables on their hands without paying rake (this what the author of the video stresses). When you look at the history of their previous hands, it is clear that the players played no hand.
According to him, it is fraud and it gives them an unfair advantage over other players. It is clear that 24 tables of heads up allows you to play many more hands per hour than 24 full-ring for example tables. Given that it is humanly impossible to play 24 tables heads-up in the normal way, it was necessary to agree on one point: they fold all our hands. Collusion? Fraud?
The question of how PokerStars will see the thing is still uncertain. There in the poker room regulations a regulation which prohibits such a practice during promotion of the genre? Is that the winner will be punished? Is PokerStars will intervene in this situation? Will they issue a press release? Other hand, if PokerStars did invervient not in this case, probably several players will copy this idea in the future for other promos of its kind and it is PokerStars that will lose out in this story because players pay less rakes in auto-foldant all their hands shortly before the distribution of a winning symbolic hand.
In the regulations on the PokerStars site can read [free translation]:
Therefore, the final decision will be taken by the Directorate of PokerStars and this is where we'll see if auto-folder on 24 heads up tables is for PokerStars "improper activity".
Whatever it is, for those who didn't know it yet, the famous Sunday Million at PokerStars tournaments will be 10 M$ in scholarships Sunday December 18 and the cost of entry for the tournament will be $ 215. Great way to celebrate the 10 years of existence of the poker room. The winner of the tournament will be 2 m $, nothing less! For lovers of tournaments, it will be difficult to find a better! The tournament begins at 14h30ET.
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