25 Billionth Hand Drama
Poker Stars.com dealt their 25th billion dollar hand early Monday morning. It was dealt at the Susilva fast $1/2 Limit Omaha H/L Table. There were 6 players sitting at the table: Confederate, NeonFrost, chris12080, n47j25s, FrtSpkndMn and tupapi777.
The players celebrated as the game went on pause as Poker Stars made sure this was indeed the right table and hand. When play resumed after about 15-20 minutes later only 5 players were given cards. As it turned out, Confedrate hadn't put in his anti and wasn't dealt in the hand missing out on the possibly huge pay day.
Confedrate was definitely bummed but took it pretty well for not having a chance at more then $250k dollars that was to be given away in the hand . It worked out for the other players because the winner took home $150k while the losers of the hand split another $100k...which meant their piece of the pie went up with him not being dealt.
When play finally restarted NeonFrost timed out and his hand was automatically folded as he didn't act in time. He was very upset about this ...typing in the chat box and very frustrated, while the rest of the table played the hand while he may have assumed he folded a hand worth potentially $150k.
When the hand was complete tupapi777 won but that was not taking into account NeonFrost's hand. Which right before the Poker Stars managment in the chat box said that the hand would be played as if every player that was dealt cards went all-in, meaning NeonFrost still had a chance. It ended up that NeonFrost indeed won the Hi of the hand while tupapi777 won the low meaning they split the $100k for the winner and both were awarded the $50k worth of tournament buy-ins. Seems like a good resolution...for everyone but confedrate.
