{"id":35984,"date":"2026-07-22T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/?p=35984"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:17:22","slug":"player-spins-50-into-250000-on-pokerstars-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/player-spins-50-into-250000-on-pokerstars-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Player Spins $50 into $250,000 on PokerStars in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The opportunity to turn a little into a whole lot is one of the things that make poker so appeal or many of the people who play cards, and on of the biggest examples of that occurred to a player in Pennsylvania who got very, very lucky last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A player with the username “Jesuz1zBlac” turned a $50 entry into $250,000, which, according to FanDuel, is the largest buy-in to payout prize in its history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The win happened playing the site’s Spin & Go jackpot games. on June 16. Available on most online sites now, the Spin & Gos are a quick, three-handed match with buy-ins ranging from a $1 on up. Once three players are gathered, the site randomly chooses a prize ranging from double the buy-in to 5,000 times the buy-in — an uber-rare occurrence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How rare? How about 1 in 10 million. That’s in the same neighborhood as matching five balls playing Powerball. And that’s just getting the chance to win that money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Jesuz1zBlac” then had to beat two other players playing the hyper-turbo game. Staring with 10 big blinds and a three-minute blinds, it’s a true crap shoot who comes out on top of these things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While strategy guides do exist for this wild and wooly format, the cards have an extraordinarily large voice in who walks away with the prize in the winner-takes-all format. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day in June, it was a random poker player in Pennsylvania who got smacked in the face by Lady Luck. The state of Pennsylvania gets $7,500 of it, while the Feds take a 24% bite worth $60,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opportunity to turn a little into a whole lot is one of the things that make poker so appeal or many of the people who play cards, and on of the biggest examples of that occurred to a player in Pennsylvania who got very, very lucky last week. A player with the username “Jesuz1zBlac” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":35987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,527,529,7421,499,7415,535,501],"tags":[577],"vertical":[],"class_list":["post-35984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-poker-business","category-buzz","category-poker-buzz","category-poker","category-poker-news","category-tournament-schedules","category-poker-tournaments","tag-poker"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":35984},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-22-at-8.45.55-AM-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-22-at-8.45.55-AM-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Pajich","author_link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/author\/bob-pajich\/"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35984"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35998,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35984\/revisions\/35998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35984"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=35984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}