Four Billion Hands of Online Poker Celebrated at Ladbrokes.com
This was published 28-06-2011The online poker offering from Ladbrokes.com has announced that it is edging closer to dealing its’ four billionth online poker hand and is preparing to give away €100,000 in cash in order to celebrate this event.
Ladbrokes has revealed that the first of 200 “milestone hands” will take place at 3,994,950,000 with the overall winner being awarded €25 and all the other players at the table sharing the same amount.
These “milestone hands” are due to take place at every 10,000th contest from hand 3,999,900,000 and Ladbrokes.com will award another €500 to the winner with all other players who are seated at the table sharing an identical prize.
After hand 3,999,960,000 the amount will rise to €1 000 for two contests while hand 3,999,980 will give €20,000 in cash to the winner and the other punters sharing an identical pot.
An amount of €5,000 in extra cash will be awarded for hand 3,999,990,000 while the remaining runners will divide the same and €20,000 will be awarded to the player who is lucky enough to win the site’s fourth billionth hand.
A statement from Ladbrokes.com read “In the week leading up to this momentous event, we will be giving away cash on 200 milestone hands until the big one where one lucky player will walk away with €20,000 in their back pocket. Anyone playing on real-money cash tables with at least four other people during that week will have a great chance of being rewarded”.
Players can simply play at Ladbroke’s cash tables and look out for the hand number that can be found in the top left hand corner when they have a table view open. Those who find themselves in a hand with a minimum of three other players and who are one of the milestone hands then the winner will win the amount and the others will be chopped with those players in the hand.
A minimum of four people in a hand is required in order to win the cash prizes and if there is less then the money will roll over to the next hand.
