Unprecedented Fifth Spin & Go Millionaire Crown on PokerStars this Week
While the live version of PokerStars' popular Spin & Go tournament made their debut here at the EPT12 Malta — yesterday saw the first €1,000 prize hit — the online version has been crowning millionaires. Most recently, Germany's "handbt1" became the fifth instant Spin & Go millionaire this week.
In the first year of Spin & Go’s at PokerStars, just five new millionaires were made, and in the last week alone there have been five more.
According to PokerStars officials, the $5 buy-in Spin & Go tournament (Tournament #1,360,472,695) started at 12.35 a.m. German Local Time on October 26 (7.34 p.m. US Eastern Time, 11.43 p.m. GMT on October 25) and concluded at 12.48 a.m., creating yet another poker millionaire from thirteen minutes of poker play.
The runner up was "egg1981" from the Channel Island of Guernsey, who won $100,000, while the third-place finisher was Ukraine's "Lyuda1975," who also won $100,000. The tournament was over in just 55 hands, with "handbt1" leading for the majority of the tournament. He won the match with the 
all in preflop against the 
of "egg1981." The 
flop paired "handbt1," and he held as the turn and river came 
respectively.
In addition to this tournament, there has been an unprecedented spate of instant millionaires made on Spin & Go tournaments this week:
- On 26 October, ‘barrakuuda4’ from Estonia became a millionaire from a $100 Spin & Go tournament.
- On 25 October, ’prophethicks’ from England became a millionaire from a $5 Spin & Go tournament.
- On 22 October, ‘wrawras’ from Brazil became a millionaire from a $100 Spin & Go tournament.
- On 21 October, ‘Samara Lúcio’ from Brazil became a millionaire from a $5 Spin & Go tournament.
Spin & Go's are fast-paced, 3-Max Hyper Turbo tournaments which feature 500 chip starting stacks. Each tournament has a randomly drawn prize pool that will award between two and 3,000 times your buy-in. PokerStars offer Spin & Go's at nine different buy-in levels: $0.50, $1, $3, $5, $7, $15, $30, $60 and $100.