| Posted by: F Paulsson at April 29, 2006, 7:22 pm | | Topic: PokerStars 5 millionth player Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by robwhufc
So Mr Draper (fromm Las Vegas) wins a prize package to the WSOP (in Las Vegas) presumably including flights from where he lives (Las Vegas) to Las Vegas. Handy for pokerstars that!
Don't mean to rain on your parade of cynicism, but the way they do it is simply to buy you the $10k entrance fee and give you $2500 for "expenses" (i.e. flights and hotel). So presumably they pay as much to him as they would anyone else, except that he doesn't have to spend it.
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| Posted by: ChuckTs at April 29, 2006, 6:14 pm | | Topic: PokerStars 5 millionth player Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by robwhufc
So Mr Draper (fromm Las Vegas) wins a prize package to the WSOP (in Las Vegas) presumably including flights from where he lives (Las Vegas) to Las Vegas. Handy for pokerstars that!
LOL i didn't notice that either...how convenient.
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| Posted by: Four Dogs at April 29, 2006, 9:52 am | | Topic: PokerStars 5 millionth player Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by robwhufc
So Mr Draper (fromm Las Vegas) wins a prize package to the WSOP (in Las Vegas) presumably including flights from where he lives (Las Vegas) to Las Vegas. Handy for pokerstars that!
lol. Rob, only you would catch something like that.
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| Posted by: KerouacsDog at April 29, 2006, 8:51 am | | Topic: PokerStars 5 millionth player Forum: Card Chat |
Lol, bet he was the 5,000,001st player to join, the 5 millionth being an old lady living in a secluded place on a remote island to the North of Australia, and PS thought, ' nah, that's just too much hassle to fly her over!'
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| Posted by: robwhufc at April 29, 2006, 6:02 am | | Topic: PokerStars 5 millionth player Forum: Card Chat |
So Mr Draper (fromm Las Vegas) wins a prize package to the WSOP (in Las Vegas) presumably including flights from where he lives (Las Vegas) to Las Vegas. Handy for pokerstars that!
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| Posted by: ChuckTs at April 29, 2006, 3:13 am | | Topic: PokerStars 5 millionth player Forum: Card Chat |
Just read this in an email
PokerStars 5 Millionth Player
On March 26, George Draper of Las Vegas, Nevada did what 4,999,999 other poker players have already done...he created a PokerStars account. Draper, now known as Mr5Million, became the five millionth player to register at PokerStars.
To commemorate this milestone, PokerStars presented Mr5Million with a poker player's dream prize: a World Series of Poker main event prize package and an entry into the main event of the fourth annual World Championship of Online Poker. The World Championship of Online Poker is the world's largest online poker tournament, with an estimated prize pool of $5 million (WCOOP event schedule will be anounced soon on PokerStars.com).
the bugger is probably just another micro game player, and now has a chance at playing in the WSOP...
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