Stars guinness world record tourney

Sweet, I've always wanted to be in there for something!.. It would be sweet to take it down and have my name in there as the winner of the biggest online poker tourney ever!!

lol didnt take long for them to 1 up ftp

1$ buy-in means this will be crazy

Haha, an hour before Full Tilt.

It will be funny if it comes down to less than 100 players to call the record

Shows how much I know lol .. I didnt even know fulltilt was trying to break it lol

registered for both, I've decided Im gonna win both of them, can't be that hard, surely???

I'm registered for the PS one and will most likely register for the FT.

Should be intresting. PS threw this together on short notice (3 days out) but they are doing $1.

FT has been promoting theirs but they are doing a $5 tourney.

I'll put my money on PS.

Too funny! I'm pulling for FT tho! They've already got almost 27,000 registered.

they are like stores competing across the street from each other except PS is the dollar store!

Well - I have never been able to get Full Tilt to work since their last stupid update on either my desktop or laptop.

So I am pulling for Pokerstars!!

Yeah, FT has been choppy at best since their last update. It boggles my mind why they would want to crap out their servers with a record attempt, when they should be working hard to resolve issues they created with their client.

PS has done it before and continually proven that they have the server capacity to handle things like this.

Next they will each hold the worlds biggest freeroll for a record...... Except it would go like this:
FT Worlds Biggest Freeroll Total Prize Pool $1,000
PS Worlds Biggest Freeroll Total Prize Pool $100,000

Maybe that will make up for PS never having any freerolls ever...

Uh, yeah more likely other way around. Pokerstars has the $1k 50k entrant, FullTilt just had $20k for 30k entrants and the nearly free $5k ftp entries.

Just satied my way in, good use of five fpps.

What- Ultimatebet not going to try and beat both?

I finally have FT working properly on my desktop after 2 un-installs and re-installs. What a pita.

So might play for them too lol.

Too bad I still hate the look of PS tables.

Lol Stars just owned FT soooo bad haha

waiting for the 1c game with 100K ppl and 200K added

I will play both tourneys just to see how high I can place in such a large field. Don't really care which site wins.

Stars will end up taking it, especially since they're running freerolls every hour where 1000 people get free entry ... thats 48k right there

The huge donkey fest, i know i ante even going to try....

Won my seat off 5 FPP tourney. Donk-fest here I come!

I'm pulling for full tilt to take the record. After today PS really let me down. Go FTP!!

Tea

I am doing FT, Satty'd into that first and when Stars ran theirs last fall Full tilt didnt jump in last min to compete. Sleezy of pokerstars imo.
I do like stars, just think desperate move.

I have more respect for Full Tilt because when they offer prizes they actually put the money on the table. Poker Stars is great but to beat 60 000 people in wednesdays $1000 freerolls and then only get payed $30 is lame.
And Full Tilt has a first place prize of $500 in their 5pts tourneys that they are running and you only reall have to beat about 6000 people because half the people arent even there. 200 pts = 1 Dollar. 5pts = 2.5 cents.

When Poker pokerstars can offer a first place of $500 for 2.5 cents then they can compete against Full Tilt in prize money.

Looks like FullTilt increased the maximum entrants recently - probably due to PS? Now the max is 50,000 with about 35,000 of which 80 or so are the red pros. As far as I could tell, PS doesn't have maximum entrants listed - thought they listed out the max in the previous record breaker last year? Hmm, well I'm registered for the FT one at least.

I won a sat into the PS one, but I really hope FT gets it.

Typical worthless PS crap. Giving out 1000 seats at a time from freerolls is insane, anyone playing should just go all in until they either get knocked out or get to 15,000 chips. Then sit out until the rest of the sat players exit and maybe try to play against the rest.

Guinness needs to create some rules for this category. For one thing, all entrants to the record attempt should have to pay an entry fee. A reasonable entry fee, otherwise you'd see PS with a .01 tournament. Maybe make it $5 minimum.

Plus the site involved should have to post some specific overlay percentage, with the PS one they could have 100k people sign up so it won't cost them anything in the way of promotions.

When a site offers a $250,000 overlay, that's incentive. When it's PS, it's always going to be garbage.

The FT one was always listed as 50,000 entrants. That's partly because when you try to break a record Guiness won't let you just do 35,001, you have to beat the old record by a certain percentage.

Haha.. FT should bump it up to 100,000 now

It's called marketing

Didn't realize that the FT one was 50,000 from the start. My friend told me thought that the max entrants had increased since he first checked. That's what I get for listening to someone who rarely plays online!

A min raise? I'd say you have to go 2.5x at least!

I wish they competed by lowering the rake and seeing how low each site would go. But it may be fun to see which site server crashes from trying run a tourney this big on the highest traffic day for online poker.