Pokerstars has now revealed all ten of its 10th Anniversary promotions with the last two to be revealed: the Road to the 72 Billionth Hand and Cash Prize Week for the Battle of the Planets Sit & Gos.
The Road to the 72 Billionth Hand is actually the latest Mega Milestone stop of the larger Road to 100 Billion Hands promotion Poker Stars has been running for a while now. Between hands 71.7 billion and 72 billion, every billion hands, Pokerstars will award cash prizes to players dealt into that hand, even if they fold. The winner of each milestone hand wins the biggest prize. The winner of the Mega Milestone 72 billionth hand wins $10,000.
Then there’s Cash Prize Week for the Battle of the Planets Sit and Gos that run regularly at the site. The dates are December 11 – 17, 2011, and here’s how it works. Battle of the Planets is a leaderboard promotion with a low-stakes, or low-orbit, and high-stakes, or high-orbit, leaderboard for eight different Sit and Go tournaments with varying buy-ins and prize pools. Get on the leaderboard by playing in at least 20 of these. Earning a certain Target Score over the course of Cash Prize Week entitles a player to a $10,000 cash prize. For example, in Mercury division, beat 650 points on the low-orbit leaderboard or 2,000 on the high-orbit leaderboard and you win. In addition, the regular prize pools for all Battle of the Planets tournaments will be doubled for all of Cash Prize Week. So for the Jupiter division, for example, the regular $10,000 prize pools will be doubled to $20,000.