In Austria’s wee morning hours, DaDumon made PokerStars history. After buying in for a mere penny, DaDumon beat out more than 253,000 other PokerStars players to win the biggest event in PokerStars history. Doing so meant that single penny buy-in would be returned with $9999.99 in winnings.
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In 2013 during the Road to 100 Billion celebration, PokerStars hosted what was then the biggest-ever online tournament. That year, the record was 225, 000. Tonight, that changed.
This week, PokerStars introduced its brand new micro-stakes series, Common Cents. With buy-ins ranging from a penny to 99 cents, the series is guaranteeing a quarter-million bucks in guarantees. Nearly half of that got paid out tonight in the $100,000 guaranteed event. More than 26,000 of the 253,698 players got paid. DaDumon banked $10,000 for less than 7 hours of effort.
Just how big was this event? Well, you could take every citizen of Nassau, Bahamas–every man, woman, and child–and put them at poker tables. The Common Cents kickoff would still be bigger.
Common Cents continues all week long. Tuesday, you can play an 11-cent buy-in event for a $3,500 guarantee. For more information, visit the Common Cents home page.
Once again, congratulations to DaDumon for the historic win.
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Brad Willis is the PokerStars Head of Blogging.
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