Poker Stars is one of the most popular online poker website and they have just celebrated their 50 billionth hand. This happened last week and they celebrated by awarding one micro-stakes no limit hold'em player with a massive cahs prize of over $56,000.
This very lucky online poker player goes by the usename of tbyle and he took home a massive $50,500 in cash last Wednesday 22nd Feb 2026, after his pocket queens were enough for him to win against five other players in a $0.02/$0.05 hand. That's not all, this lucky online poker player also won an additional $5,640 for the points that he had earned in the previous 50 hands along with $46.25 for winning the game. In total he took home a whopping $56,186 in cash.
For everyone of the milestone hand's, participants took home $500 in cash plus an additional $500 for each point that they had earned over their previous 50 hands at that particular table. They also received free entry into the $5,200 buy in World Championship of Online Poker which is due to start this Sunday 3rd Feb 2026.
As part of their celebrations, Poker Stars also rewarded players in every millionth hand beginning from 49.7 billion. They stated that they will continue to offer promotions for sit and go players and there will also be three special $50,000 freerolls for all depositing players on Saturday.
There is some fantastic stuff happening on the Poker Stars online poker website at the moment and if you are a member then you need to make sure that you don't miss out on all the action.
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