iPoker Deals its Billionth Hand

The iPoker Network has dealt its billionth cash table hand. The lucky winner won $55,000, while an additional $5,000 was paid out to each player who participated in the hand. Over the course of this promotion iPoker paid out more than $450,000 in cash prizes.

(PRWEB) May 31, 2008 -- iPoker, the world's largest online Poker network, is proud to announce that on Tuesday May 27th it dealt its billionth hand of poker, and Finnish player "wootrigged" walked away the lucky winner.

The stage was set and all eyes were on the ID ticker. iPoker's cash players were playing as many tables as they could open up, hoping to be at the winning table playing hand ID 1,000,000,000. The moment everyone had been waiting for occurred at exactly 15:21 GMT. The players at table "Boonville", a $0.10/$0.20 No-Limit Hold'em 6 player table saw the left hand indicator show "Hand ID 1,000,000,000". Player "mugwumphump", who was under the gun went all in. 2 players called the bet, and when the dust settled, the board showed a five of clubs, a jack of diamonds, a three of hearts, a nine of clubs and an Ace of hearts. Player "wootrigged" was holding pocket eights, and was the lucky winner of $55,000. The rest of the participating players cashed in on $5,000.

This was the culmination of a $450,000 promotion, which gave out prizes to the participants of specific hands, on the countdown to the billionth hand. During the final hours, over 18,000 seats were occupied on iPoker's cash tables.

iPoker is currently running ECOOPII, the second European Championship of Online Poker.

For further details please go to www.ecoopii.com (http://www.ecoopii.com)

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The iPoker Network includes some of the most popular card rooms in Europe, such as Titan Poker, Bet365, Expekt, Paddy Power and others. According to (http://www.pokersitescout.com) iPoker is the largest non-U.S. network in the world and is growing faster than any of the other leading poker site. For more information please go to (http://www.ipoker.com)

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