PokerStars makes third Spin & Go millionaire in a week

(PRESS RELEASE) -- The third Spin & Go millionaire of the week has been made, and eighth of all time, with English player ‘prophethicks’ winning $1,000,000 after just seven minutes of poker play in a $5 tournament on PokerStars.com, an Amaya Inc. brand.

The $5 buy-in Spin & Go tournament (Tournament # 1,358,762,929) started at 10.58 a.m. (PokerStars Server Time) on 25 October (2.58 p.m. GMT, 3.58 p.m. CET), and concluded at 11.05 a.m., creating a million reasons to celebrate a Sunday afternoon for ‘prophethicks’.

The runner up was ‘BARCA1CRIS’ from Romania, who won $100,000. The third-place player was ‘snagon-nl’ from Holland, who also won $100,000. The tournament was over in 48 hands of poker, when ‘prophethicks’ moved all-in with [As 6h] on a flop of [Jd 5h Ad], and was called by ‘BARCA1CRIS’ who held [Kd Jc]. The pair of Aces held-up, making ‘prophethicks’ the third Spin & Go Millionaire in a week.

The newly-minted millionaire’s User ID and PokerStars player image both pay homage to Bill Hicks, the American comedian and musician. More information on Bill Hicks is available online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks

Felix Schneiders, a Team PokerStars Pro Online member, was streaming on Twitch yesterday, and recorded a broadcast of the end of the tournament. That video is available to be embedded from YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC0yEac6JEs

In addition to this tournament, there has been an unprecedented spate of instant millionaires made on Spin & Go tournaments this week:

-On 22 October, ‘wrawras’ from Brazil became a millionaire from a $100 Spin & Go tournament.
-On 21 October, ‘Samara Lúcio’ from Brazil became a millionaire from a $5 Spin & Go tournament.

Spin & Go's are fast-paced, 3-Max Hyper Turbo tournaments which featuring 500 chip starting stacks. Each tournament has a randomly drawn prize pool that will award between two and 3,000 times your buy-in. PokerStars offer Spin & Gos at seven different buy-in levels $1, $3, $7, $15, $30, $60 and $100, regardless of the buy-in players will start the tournament with 500 chips and play three minute levels.