Canadian Walks Away with $100,000 at PokerStars

Filed in archive Internet Poker on May 23, 2007

Twelve dollars.

The size of the bankroll it took to take home a monster prize from the Ten Billionth hand promotion at pokerstars. Justine Hall will now have the means to try a few tables that don't require a decimal point behind the big blind amount. As she was playing her usual penny/two penny no limit tables the bells and whistles went off on her 6-max table to signify that someone was about the earn a couple more nickels then the usual pot at these limits.

Any hand would play as the table was guaranteed a minimum of $10,000 just for showing up, and $100,000 to the winner of the hand. Not horrible pot odds to run down a flush with a mere eight and trey of clubs.

Here's Brad "Otis" Willis with a little background into the hand and the woman who won:

So, who is the mystery woman who walked away with $100,000? Her name, as you might expect, is Justine. Justine Hall, in fact.

The 19-year-old woman is a university student from Canada who is waiting tables for the summer. At the time she won the $100,000, she had $12 in her PokerStars account. She started playing poker in high school about four years ago and fell in love with the game. So, naturally, she gravitated toward PokerStars.

While she knew the BIG Ten Billion promotion was going on, she wasn't expecting to hit it. In fact, when her table stopped, she didn't even realize that she had hit the big one.

"It was a total fluke," she said. "I didn't even realize that it was the major big hand right away,. I thought it was just another one leading up to it!"

So, now, Justine has $100,000 which she plans to use to pay for her education, and, she said, "of course, a little shopping. I'm just really thankful and feel extremely lucky."

Congratulations to all the players who won money in the milestone hands leading up to the BIG Ten Billion, especially justine0003 who now has a big enough bankroll to 1000-table $.01/$.02 as much as she wants.