PokerStars player wins $1 million Spin & Go in just four hands

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Four hands, $100, and less than two minutes was all it took to make Russian poker player "Rainman731" online poker's newest millionaire after winning a $1 million Spin & Go on PokerStars.com, an Amaya Inc. brand.

This is the first PokerStars Spin & Go millionaire of 2016, after 13 Spin & Go Millionaires were made in 2015. What began as a one-off promotion at the $100 buy-in Spin & Go tournament tables has become a popular feature among players and is now running indefinitely on PokerStars.

Yesterday's tournament (Tournament #1,470,517,471) started at 6:37 p.m. Moscow Time on Feb. 7 and concluded at 6:39 p.m., marking the fastest ever Million Dollar Spin & Go, and a record that may stand for a while. The fastest previous victory was the millionaire "Koovoon" who won $1 Million in 9 minutes, 38 seconds in November 2015.

The runner up was "Kman_AP2" from Canada, who won $100,000. The third-place player was "pablotenisis" from Mexico, who also won $100,000.

The four million-dollar hands:

Hand #1 – "pablotenisis" raised to 41 from the button, "Kman_AP2" re-raised to 122 from the small blind, and "Rainman751" called from the big blind. "Pablotenisis" then called. The flop came [9s 3h Qh], "Kman_AP2" bet 60, and "Rainman751" moved all-in for 378 chips, before Kman_AP2 folded.

Hand #2 – "Kman_AP2" raised to 80 from the button, and the other players folded.

Hand #3 – "Rainman751" raised to 40 from the button, and "pablotenisis" moved all-in with [Th Tc]. "Kman_AP2" folded, and "Rainman751" called with [Kc Ks]. The board ran out [3s 3h 7s 3c Ad], so the pocket kings of "Rainman751" held up.

Hand #4 – "Kman_AP2" raised from the button and small blind with [Ts Qd]. "Rainman751" called with [6h 7h]. The flop was [Qh 6c 5c], giving "Kman_AP2" top pair, and "Rainman751" middle-pair. "Rainman751" checked, "Kman_AP2" bet 60, and "Rainman751" called. The turn was [7s], giving "Rainman751" two pair. "Rainman751" checked again, "Kman_AP2" bet 60, and "Rainman751" moved all-in. "Kman_AP2" called for only 168 more chips, and the river was [Ac], making "Rainman751" a millionaire.

The player avatar of "Rainman751" is a character from the "My Little Pony" universe, Princess Luna.

Including this tournament, the following poker players have won one million-dollar prizes in Spin & Go"s since the beginning of October 2015:

•On 7 February, 2016, "Rainman751" from Russia won $1 million from a $100 tournament in 4 hands and 104 seconds.
•On 14 December, "GrindHeaps" from Australia won $1 million from a $100 tournament.
•On 21 November, "Koovoon" from Canada won $1 million from a $100 tournament.
•On 28 October, "ifipushud325" from Australia won $1 million from a $5 tournament.
•On 26 October, "handbt1" from Germany won $1 million from a $5 tournament.
•On 26 October, "barrakuuda4" from Estonia won $1 million from a $100 tournament.
•On 25 October, "prophethicks" from England won $1 million from a $5 tournament.
•On 22 October, "wrawras" from Brazil won $1 million from a $100 tournament.
•On 21 October, "Samara Lúcio" from Brazil won $1 million from a $5 tournament.

Spin & Go's are fast-paced, 3-Max Hyper Turbo tournaments which feature 500 chip starting stacks. Each tournament has a randomly drawn prize pool that will award between two and 10,000 times your buy-in. PokerStars offer Spin & Go's at seven different buy-in levels: $0.25, $0.50, $1, $3, $7, $15, $30, $60 and $100. In addition, PokerStars is currently running special Christiano Ronaldo editions of Spin & Go's.