BigBodogBonanzaBash

As of the top of this hour, 8 am PST bodog was about 880,000 hands away from their 1 billionth hand.

There is a lot of action there today, as I'm sure even they would prefer it to happen today, amid the glare and lights of a weekend crowd.

Personally I'll be keeping an eye on this as it would be fun to be in that hand.

I can only imagine how many other folks will be doing the same and then immediately afterwards will logout. The whole internet may be affected!

OMG. Bodog is slow enough as it is... I can't imagine how bad it will be today.

I really wonder what would happen if the billionth hand was at a play money sit-n-go.

My calculations show that they should hit it in about 12 hours at the current run rate. (say 04:30-ish GMT?)

I would expect that run rate to greatly increase as all the other bodogers keep an eye on this today. Might want to check in 6 hours .

Just a bit over 500,000 to go now? About 380,000 in 4 1/2 hours....

I'm at a $1 tourney right now. Hand count is at 999,573,186.

6 est....327000 hands away.

under 200K now, and increasing fast, at about 2500 per hand.

120,000 to go, but the pace is decreasing.

999904144 6:43PM MST
about 1400 per hand.

60,000 to go!

40K, and the rush is on!

30 k, and movin fast!

now under 30K

20K, and its the topic de jour.

GO CardsChatters GO!!!!!!!!

now 10K

2 tables open

the excitement is thick!

Gone
1000000161

Had three tables open.

Well it's over and I didn't win. Oh Poo!

I missed it with more than 1000 hands even though I was playing at 3 tables.

heh. three tabled it, had my fair shot i suppose...
at least i made some $$ from the ring donks on bd ($60/hr lol)...

Missed the pokerstars one earlier in the year 18 tabling. By a few thousand as well.

Wow... I should feel fortunate I only missed by 161...

My original calculations were off by about an hour and change...

Missed by 49. Oh well.

1,288,338 now ,played all day on and off but forgot couple hrs back till I read this thread. missed the ft buy in by 2 min. been missing stuff all day , to 420 friendly.

I'm playing in a tournament on Bodog right now, and my table has seen 11 or 12 pocket aces in less than 10 minutes. I have never seen anything like that in my life. There has probably been even more that was never called.

Bodog's software is going crazy tonight.

Yep, another failure to understand the law of large numbers.

I understand it. I just haven't seen it personally on this scale until today, but I'm sure you see it at least every other day.

My fingers only go to 10!

As this happened in the middle of the night here - i feel i had just as much chance as getting the hand than if i was actually playing

ie. none

At one of my tables, 2 players decided to play right thru the 'moment'. They had been totally unaware of anything going on.

Those of us who did understand gave them more than their fair portion of shit.

It was fairly late for me, and real late for anyone east of me (most of the civilized world).

I had hoped bodog would stop all the action at all their tables for a moment to commemorate the moment. But nothing special happened. No instant post on the main page announcing there had been a winner, nothing. I haven't checked this morning.