The Deal

That's interesting. Off course I think in euro's, but I don't think the difference in dollars is so big.
Off course in the major Dutch cities the house prizes are huge as well if you compare it with the towns and smaller cities.

Spin just a moment ago.
Winner got a thousand bucks.
jackpot about 628K

Pretty crazy develepment with such a high jackpot. Hopefully you even win the jackpot. That would be really the cherry on the cake.

Originally posted by SDK1987
Pretty crazy develepment with such a high jackpot. Hopefully you even win the jackpot. That would be really the cherry on the cake.

Yeah, it would indeed.
Actually though, it has been quite a while since I even got better than a pair.

That's to bad. Hopefully you hit something today.

Tomorrow I am off to Italy for a week long holiday. Anyone knows how/if I can still play the deal when I am away? I have a feeling the jackpot will pop when I am not able to play

Originally posted by Galador82
Tomorrow I am off to Italy for a week long holiday. Anyone knows how/if I can still play the deal when I am away? I have a feeling the jackpot will pop when I am not able to play

If PokerStars is allowed in Italy, then you should be able to play.
In your situation, though, I would ask PokerStars support directly.

Another thing you could do — that is 100% legal — is to use remote-control software such as Teamviewer (there are others, but that is what I use) to remotely control your home computer from a tablet or laptop.

I do hope it drops before soon!

A spin was reported at 12:34 GMT — no details, but the jackpot is still intact

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by Galador82
Tomorrow I am off to Italy for a week long holiday. Anyone knows how/if I can still play the deal when I am away? I have a feeling the jackpot will pop when I am not able to play

If PokerStars is allowed in Italy, then you should be able to play.
In your situation, though, I would ask PokerStars support directly.

Another thing you could do — that is 100% legal — is to use remote-control software such as Teamviewer (there are others, but that is what I use) to remotely control your home computer from a tablet or laptop.

I do hope it drops before soon!

Not sure it can. You need to play on Pokerstars.it in Italy and it was always a seperate playerspool.

I can confirm that whilst in Italy you can still play on the EU account and also at the Deal. No access to the Casino though (probably due to Italian legislation)

Originally posted by Galador82
I can confirm that whilst in Italy you can still play on the EU account and also at the Deal. No access to the Casino though (probably due to Italian legislation)

Good news!
Thanks for letting us know.

That's interesting. Not sure you can play poker than as well. I was in Denmark a few weeks and the situation was the same when I was back in my home country the Netherlands. I couldn't play anything.

Are there live venues where you can play in the Netherlands?
I find it hard to imagine why the government would care about people playing online poker, unless casino operators bent the ears of the politicians and whined about lost revenue.

You can play poker and other gambling games at Holland Casino, but I'm not really a live player.
Most of the time you start with €2/€2. Than is the minimum buy-inn €50 and max €400 the last time I visited a casino 3 years ago for fun. Offcourse playing with the minimum buy-inn is really tough.

Originally posted by SDK1987
You can play poker and other gambling games at Holland Casino, but I'm not really a live player.
Most of the time you start with €2/€2. Than is the minimum buy-inn €50 and max €400 the last time I visited a casino 3 years ago for fun. Offcourse playing with the minimum buy-inn is really tough.

Here the minimum live cash games are $2/$4
I'm told that there is no maximum buy-in.
I played live cash at those stakes only once. I was there for 3 hours, and won almost enough to play for dinner and parking.

At a nominal value of $0.01 per StarsCoin, I have already paid $21.68 in coins since I started.

I may even end up in profit!

Wow, amazing! I think a full house was the best I ever got when I was still able to play.

Originally posted by Harrier88
Wow, amazing! I think a full house was the best I ever got when I was still able to play.

Certainly my best ever.
I have had a full house at least once I remember a $5 payout.
I don't recall any flushes — that doesn't mean I haven't had any, I just don't recall.

This is my reward frequency table from this cycle:
($ values converted to starscoin at the rate of $0.01 / coin)
        Hand  Frequency  Payout    Net 
     Nothing        115       0      0 
    Ace-High         99       1     99 
      1 pair        207       2    414 
      2 pair         26       7    182 
 3 of a kind         10      25    250 
    Straight          2      50    100 
       Flush          0      $1      0 
  Full House          0      $5      0 
       Quads          1     $30  3,000 
   Str Flush          0    $250      0 
       Royal          0              0 
       Total        460          4,045