Two $300K jackpot winners in first week of $100 Spin & Go’s

Pete - Wednesday, August 12, 2015, Written by- Wednesday, August 12, 2015, Online poker

Within 7 days of their launch on PokerStars, the new $100 buy-in Spin & Go tournaments have already dished out a $300,000 jackpot payout to two fortunate players.

The chances of hitting any Spin & Go maximum jackpot stand at an optimistic 1 in 100,000, but last weekend those odds were breached twice at the variant’s highest level, leaving six players with the opportunity to make a massive profit of 3,000 times their $100 investment for just a few minutes work.

Of those six players, two were Hungarian in ‘Lev729’ and ‘flesske’, and both emerged as the victor from their respective 3-handed tournament to clinch the dangling life changing pay day.

Spin & Go’s are usually winner-take-all affairs with two runners up leaving the table empty handed. But with the extreme variance involved in playing such a fast structure with so much on the line, in jackpot cases the two runners up are also compensated.

In these instances, it was Ireland’s ‘ian2014’, Russia’s ‘AlexRAVXXX’, ‘barrakuuda4’ from Estonia, and ‘wallaks’ from Israel who were left licking their wounds with a $30,000 consolation prize.

Funnily enough, this $720,000 worth of Spin & Go jackpots isn’t even the most PokerStars has paid out via the format over the course of a single weekend.

Back in January this year during their $5 buy-in, $1 million jackpot Spin & Go campaign, they paid out a nauseating $2 million when the hugely unlikely promotional grand prize was hit twice in the space of just 24 hours.