The odds were 1 in 10 million: he bet US$5 on poker and won a million in just 18 minutes – CodigoPoker

There are strokes of luck and then there are these. A British player known at the tables as Gwaugh1 entered a Spin & Go with just US$5 and ended up taking the top prize of US$1,000,000.

The incredible part is not only the amount won, but the odds he had to defy to get it: the chance that a Spin & Go of that value triggers the maximum jackpot is 1 in 10 million.

And the story became even more incredible because of the speed. From the moment he sat down to play that mini session on PokerStars until he finished with the million-dollar prize, only 18 minutes passed. That is, with a five-dollar investment, the player multiplied his buy-in by 200,000 in less than half an hour.

A lottery within poker

Spin & Go tournaments are three-player, fast-structured events where before starting, a draw determines the prize pool.

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Most of the time the prizes are relatively small, but there is a chance that one of the big jackpots will appear. In this case, fortune was on Gwaugh1’s side.

The US$1 million prize corresponds to the maximum jackpot available for that buy-in level and appears with an extraordinarily low frequency: once every 10 million games, according to the published odds for the format.

The player also had to overcome the competition in the Spin & Go itself to claim the prize. So it wasn’t just luck playing a role, but skill to turn US$5 into a million, that is US$999,995 in profit.

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