Just last week we were talking about how we expected traffic to go through the roof as the 60 Billionth Hand dealt at PokerStars became more and more imminent – it did! This milestone has been met, matched and moved on, and "Pogo650" was the winner of the 60th Billion hand of poker played at this site. It all happened on Tuesday at 9:39am EST, so traffic was passing through the site at virtually the speed of light; however we didn't expect it all to happen so soon.

At the end of the game of the #60 billionth hand; Pogo650 came away with a win of more than $102,000 in prize money – talk about being in the right place at the right time?! It was a case of lightening striking in the same place twice for this lucky player, as he was involved in a separate milestone hand also – we explained this principle earlier last week. He recons he is the biggest "luckbox" alive at the moment when he posted on the blog at the site, because he had two losing sessions end up with milestone hands. According to PokerStars, this was actually quite an uncanny feat; players were 20-tabling penny games for hours at a time just trying to hit one milestone hand.

They played at an Isa II $5/$10 limit hold'em table – known historically for small stakes limit poker grinders, and although Pogo650's chances were slim to win, crazier things have been know to happen on poker. This chances to win were even slimmer with a 3♣Q♥ hand which held up in a five-way pot! To quote this winner "I have absolutely no idea what to do with myself now"!

He is a UK poker player – YAY – go UK! And there were actually three UK online poker players at the milestone table at that time. When HostBob announced the 60 Billionth hand was being played, all players were guaranteed to win $500 plus all their prizes would be augmented dependent on their VIP Player Points. The points which counted for the promotion where those picked up at that table during the previous 50 hands! The winner of the hand would bag at least $60,000 plus have their prize money doubled and there was no winning a hand by folding. After announcing the game, HostBob gave players at the site a minute to get ready at the rail to watch the action take place.

The river hit and the board fell as 2♥K♠3♥6♦9♦, all Pogo650 had was a humble 3♣Q♥, but he had a pair, and sometimes all you need to win is a pair. At the end of it all when all the VPP's had been tallied, even DrPepel, who folded won – in fact the smallest winner/loser at the table banked $11,040 after the maths was done. Blue Baboon – also a winner/loser offered these famous last words "I'm gonna go and faint", as the table in total paid out over $200 000. Pogo650 - although still reeling, recons he thinks he can afford to change his old banger of a car now!