The Spin & Go games at PokerStars are generally the first ones we think of when we consider the Lottery Sit & Go, but it was French poker site Winamax that introduced the world to this type of game when it launched Expresso Poker in July 2013. Since then, countless copycats have arisen (well, not literally countless, as there are a finite number of online poker rooms in existence), each offering their own slight variation on what has become an extremely popular game. Winamax is still there, though, and while nobody outside of France should really care, as they can’t play on French sites, the poker room is in midst of a pretty interesting Expresso Poker promotion.
The promo, called Expresso Eleven, will run until €500,000 has been given away. To date, about €74,000 has been won, so there is still plenty of time left to get in on the action.
In Expresso Eleven, every time one plays in an Expresso Poker Sit & Go with the lowest prize pool multiple (2x), a card depicting one of the eleven Team Winamax members will appear. If the player wins the Expresso Poker match, he will receive that card. When a player collects at least seven unique cards, a prize is awarded.
There is one huge catch, though: if a player is presented with the opportunity to win a card and already has that card in his collection, he will actually LOSE that card if he doesn’t win the Expresso game. Thus, there is no Team Winamax card freerolling. A card is at stake every single time, either to be won or to be lost.
The Team Winamax Pros are:
Patrick “P14B” Bruel
Michel “Mik.22” Abecassis
Davidi “Kitbul” Kitai
Gaëlle “O RLY” Baumann
Bruno “Kool Shen” Lopes
Sylvain “Loosli” Loosli
Guillaume “volatile38” Diaz
Pierre “LeVietF0u” Calamusa
Aurélie “RunGood4Love” Quélain
Alexandre “Alexonmoon” Luneau
Florian “1flip 2win” Decamps
To illustrate the above rule, let’s say a player has the cards of Bruel, Abecassis, Diaz, and Luneau in his collection. He sits down for a 2x multiplier Expresso Poker game and draws the Diaz card again. If the player wins the game, nothing happens in terms of the Expresso Eleven promotion as he already has that card. If he loses, though, the Diaz card is removed from his collection and he must win it again.
The card collections are divided by buy-in, so every player can have seven separate collections (buy-ins for Expresso Poker are €1, €2, €5, €10, €25, €50, and €100. The rewards for collecting cards at each buy-in level are as follows:
7 cards: 1 Expresso Poker ticket for that buy-in
8 cards: 2 Expresso Poker tickets for that buy-in
9 cards: 5 Expresso Poker tickets for that buy-in
10 cards: Cash equal to 50 times the buy-in level
11 cards: Cash equal to 1,000 times the buy-in level
Players will receive each prize in the ladder as they add cards to their collections, so for instance, a player who collects all eleven cards at the €100 buy-in level will receive a total of eight €100 Expresso tickets and €105,000. Each individual prize can only be won once, though, so if a person collects seven cards, loses a card, then wins a card to get back up to seven, he won’t receive the prize for seven cards twice.
