Poker Stars "Guinness Book of World Records" attempt - 35k person poker tourney

Lets try

11 bucks.......

Pokerstars - $500,000 guaranteed - $10 + $1 buyin on DECEMBER 28TH!

There will be 35,000 seats open. The tourney will pay 8750 places.

People, just try. who knows...............

yeah, well, they have a 200k grtd every sunday same price with not more than 25k people. not to mention, in that one, you can satty in real cheap. im not overly excited about this

Well I think this will be a bigger deal than the regular $200k grtd because this record attempt has an automatic minimum 150k guaranteed overlay and pays out an unheard of 25% of the massive field. That typical $200k grtd game has no overlay at all and pays, at most 20% but I'd guess it's more like the norm of 10-15%. Oh and I'm sure the $30k first prize will help too for a bit of dream seeking.

I may play this just for giggles.

Do you think they will fill the 35,000 seats ? hmmm

Oh, and does anyone know what the current record is ?

yes, i do. I will be in one

Actually I do. And even if they don't, the payout structure is set and not changing, so the fewer entries the better as long as they meet the minimum. But with 25k entries playing the smaller $200k event every week, I see no reason at all that they won't make 35k seats. In fact, I went ahead and registered now just in case. I tend to forget about things like this and with my luck I'd remember the day of and find registration full and closed. I can unregister until 10 minutes before hand, so registering is better for me at least.

It shall be fun, looking forward to it

I can see the seats being filled also, im going to be part of a WORLD RECORD !!!! lol

Good idea JD, I'm reg'd. Ten handed tables I see. Be like being back on Party.

Worth playing just to be part of a record

I am in!

This is way above my bankroll limit for regular tournaments, but even my wife thinks its a good idea...

What a way to blow out the end of the year. I'm in. (currently 612 registered)

I think PokerStars should sell T-shirts.

My BR is TINY for entering this tourney, but a friend owes me $40 on Pokerstars so what the hell? I'll give it a shot. Who knows? Maybe I'll walk away with the 30K

As there's some people playing above their rolls I'll ship $11 to the highest placed CC finisher outside the money.

The CC bubble-boy if you like

That's nice Rex - but it will probably be a bubble girl.

but thinking I just might play in this one also. GL to all.

I'm going to wroted about this on my blogs, hope people signing up.

Nice one, I'll get to be in the record books if I play this. I'll certainly reg later.

i will play , i want to be part of one world record.

and 35000 players with $10 it will be $350.000 and the GTD prize pool is $500.000.

thats a nice deal.

gl to all

I didnt even know about this but it sounds like fun. I will play if I can get internet in my new house by then. I hope to see a lot of people taking advantage of this.

Sounds like fun!
Good Luck everyone

Damn wish I had $10 to play in this tourney on Stars...............got no money left there...........

here's the prize breakdown for those interested:
1. 30,000
2. 20,000
3. 15,000
4. 10,000
5. 7,500
6. 5,000
7. 3,500
8. 2,500
9. 2,000
10. 1,500
11-15. 1,150
16-20. 850
21-30. 700
31-40. 600
41-50. 500
51-70. 400
71-100. 300
101-150. 225
151-200. 175
201-300. 150
301-400. 125
401-500. 100
501-700. 90
701-1000. 80
1001-1500. 70
1501-2000. 60
2001-2500. 50
2501-3000. 40
3001-4000. 35
4001-5000. 30
5001-6000. 26
6001-7250. 22
7251-8750. 20

i just registered, see you there!

I am definitely going to register for this. See you at the final table

I might do it, should be interesting. Sick payout.

I mainly do $2-3 tournaments and I was planning to go into a sunday two hundred grand one time this xmas but I'll do this instead. with 150k overlay (even if it fills up) sounds like a good deal to me.

Here is an idea for those like me that have a BR that is too small for this event. I am just going to try to satellite into the Sunday 200k and then unregister from it and use $T on this event.

Obviously trying more than once or twice would be a waste of money, but might as well give it a shot. Just a thought.

See you guys the 28th!

Dustin Ranger

Bumping this to keep it current...might even sticky it for giggles. Could be interesting to get a large CC contingent to play this and see how deep we can get how many people. Might be fun.

Whoa JD thx for the bump..i might have missed this. SOUNDS like FUN to ME!! I'll be there. It also sounds like 8-10 hours work MINIMUM to final table..
Peace,
FLOW

Same here, I registered now. Good deal, this should be fun. Let's see how many CC we can get in this.

Thanks, Rex.

I gave up playing the Sunday $200k because of poor results, and I really don't like the current payout structure.

But I'll be playing in this one. Already won a seat on the $200k and unregistered so I could play this one. And for anyone wondering if they'll be close to the 35,000, take a look at the event. Still 10 days away, and there's over 4,000 registered already!

Here's hoping that a CC player makes it to the final table.

The main reason to get excited about this is the $150,000 overlay and that's a minimum overlay, could be more if they don't get 35,000 entrants since the $500,000 is guaranteed.

You find me any $11 tournament on any site with a $150,000 overlay and I'll deposit on the site just to play in it.

I think they should take the winner's (mine) picture and put that with the record in the Guiness book.

Like others I've already registered, I don't want to miss it.

The only problem is how long do you suppose it's going to take to get to final table? 6 hours? 10 hours? It's not a turbo so it's going to be a LONG long time. Better get your butt in condition.

tempted to download and deposit on pokerstars just for this! (sad lol)

this is a great deal 1/5 PEOPLE MAKE MONEY!!! if u sit out you could probably make it

It's actually 1 of 4 that make the money, not 1 of 5.