Wanna Get in on a Guinness World Record?
Today, the worlds largest online poker site, Pokerstars is attempting to create another record in the Guinness Book. Last year’sChristmastime tourney had an $11 dollar buy in with $500,000 in guaranteed prizes, but this year Pokerstars wants to break the current record (set by themselves) of 65,000 players in a single tournament.
So, Today (Sunday, December 27th) at 2:45 the tourney will start. The buy in is only $1 and the guaranteed prize pool is $300,000. Registration is open and as ofSaturday morning the 65,000 person record has been broken (there were 71,000 people signed up Saturday morning!). No late registrations are allowed and no cap for the tournament has been given. If you put your $1 into this tourney, you’ll get 2000 starting chip stack and the blind levels will run 5 min each.
My personal feeling on this whole thing is that it’s a publicity stunt, and any tournament with that many people is nothing but a blind push fest after you hit the 5-9 blind levels. And with the buy in being so low, you’ll have a lot of players happy to get in and start pushing right away to hopefully double up and out last conservative players. Still, if their goal is to create buzz and get 100,000 people on a table to break a record, Good Job Pokerstars! *slow clap*.
So, if you feel like getting into the fray of this GIANT tournament (literally, the biggest tournament you could ever play in, period) head over to Pokerstars and open the sites filter and type “record” before 2:45 and sign up. Then put all your chips in the middle because that’s the only way you could possibly go deep in this tourney!
