Friday, 4 January 2019

Juan, we have a problem: An oral history of the first Platinum Pass

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For a period of several months in 2017, the mere existence of something called a Platinum Pass was the most tightly-guarded secret at PokerStars HQ. Those who knew what it was were sworn to secrecy, and those who didn't were left wondering what all the whispering was about. The answer was one of the biggest and most ambitious PokerStars promotions in the company's history.

It was a multimillion-dollar promotion, one that would seed history's biggest $25,000 buy-in poker tournament with $8 million in free entries and give recreational players around the world a chance to compete against the best for win life-changing money. All of those free entries, each valued at $30,000, would be called a Platinum Pass. The plan: to spend an entire year spreading those Platinum Passes around the world like poker's version of Willy Wonka.

This weekend, all of those Platinum Pass winners will meet the world's best poker players in the Bahamas to fight it out for millions of dollars. There are hundreds of winners, all of them with different life stories and goals. Internally, PokerStars began to number them all one at a time. The number climbed to 100, then 200, and all the way up to the...


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These first couple paragraphs I summarize why poker is viewed as 'unsafe'. Listed below, starting in the 3rd paragraph, are my safe recommendations (10+ years in this wild trade). In July 2010, HR2267 was presented and ever since lots of other costs to control poker by Federal U.S. government were popularized. None have actually passed the Feds yet but state federal governments New Jersey, Delaware, Nevada and Pennsylvania up until now, have penned poker legal online. When a Federal costs ultimately passes the capacity, Senate, and signed into law by the President, totally legal online poker, certified and controlled in the US, will be right around the corner and not merely by a few states on a state-by-state basis.



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