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

[KerouacsDog]

^^^^9 hours plus, and theres 2 left i think.................

 

[becomingpoker]

It's done.

Final Hand:
pokerstars Game #23357156157: Tournament #126551369, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level LII (1250000/2500000) - 2008/12/29 1:03:17 ET
Table '126551369 714' 10-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 3: stan34powa (70988608 in chips)
Seat 6: meiky777 (34011392 in chips)
stan34powa: posts the ante 312500
meiky777: posts the ante 312500
meiky777: posts small blind 1250000
stan34powa: posts big blind 2500000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
meiky777: calls 1250000
stan34powa: checks
*** FLOP *** [8h 3s 5s]
stan34powa: checks
meiky777: bets 2500000
stan34powa: raises 5000000 to 7500000
meiky777: raises 23698892 to 31198892 and is all-in
stan34powa: calls 23698892
*** TURN *** [8h 3s 5s] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [8h 3s 5s Js] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
stan34powa: shows [2d 8d] (a pair of Eights)
meiky777: shows [Ac Kd] (high card Ace)
stan34powa collected 68022784 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 68022784 | Rake 0
Board [8h 3s 5s Js 7s]
Seat 3: stan34powa (big blind) showed [2d 8d] and won (68022784) with a pair of Eights
Seat 6: meiky777 (button) (small blind) showed [Ac Kd] and lost with high card Ace

 

[Jack Daniels]

Yep, 9.5 hours to finish the whole thing. Wow. Their HU battle went back and forth for a while too. Blinds were at level 53 Blinds.

 

[NascarFanSS]

My pokerstars screen name is NascarFanSS.....sorry about the confusion i should have cought that I wasn't on the list earlier.

 

[Munchrs]

Funds transfered to nascarfann!!!

 

[tenbob]

Ill ship the $5 later on after work.

 

[Debi]

For those who don't know our very own Effexor finished 30th in this and won $700 - great job!!

 

[ChurchSkiz]

I can only imagine how long this tournament is going to be. 8000 or so to be paid?? wow ....i can see a bunch of donk moves just within the first three hours or if not more. How long are the blinds going to be i wonder? wouldnt surprise me if they turbo the blinds, because you are looking at a very very long day ... good luck to all who's in it.

It actually was pretty fun. blinds increased every 10 minutes and the overlay was huge. ITM was before the 3rd break and after the bubble players dropped REALLY fast.

If there was another one I'd definitely play it. My tables were all pretty solid and I didn't see any donking until the blinds starting eating people's stacks.

 

[SavagePenguin]

For those who don't know our very own Effexor finished 30th in this and won $700 - great job!!

Only 30th out of 35,000?



Those blinds at the end were ridiculous! I've never seen them so large before.

 

[lightning36]

My pokerstars screen name is NascarFanSS.....sorry about the confusion i should have cought that I wasn't on the list earlier.

shipped

 

[dj11]

I hung in there watching until there were 8 left and a break came. I didn't even play that game and I was burnt out.

The last 4 or 5 tables were interesting in that they were classical hand showdown times. Any pair vs any pair or against AK or AQ. Seldom were any other hands involved, unless they were successful steals, in which case we can't know.

Some other peculiarities were the avatar situations. They were on, then they were off then they were on again, but at the final table they were off.

Rail chat was outrageous until the final table when it was off, yet the moderator 84 kept halting the game to check the chat for violations, I found that hilarious as the final table participants were obviously way to burnt out to be chatting.

I've a feeling Effexor doesn't know he had a rail as I didn't see any replies from him even tho we tried. He didn't sign on to MSN to join the rail either. I'm thinking he was happy with things and didn't want or need any distractions.

 

[colquhounx]

Well I was happy to finish 1893.

 

[tenbob]

$5 shipped to NascarFanSS

 

[Effexor]

Sorry I didn't respond to rail chat, I was on my laptop, had chat turned off and I don't have MSN on the laptop.

Not too many people can say they beat out 34,970 others in a MTT.

PokerStars Tournament #126551369, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
35000 players
$150000.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars
Total Prize Pool: $500000.00
Tournament started 2008/12/28 15:30:00 ET

Dear Effexor1,

You finished the tournament in 30th place.
A $700.00 award has been credited to your real money account.

You earned 686.79 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tour.../leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

 

[eNTy]

way to go dude !

I was scrolling down the list at around 6pm Et time and i saw Effexor1 there, around my chipstack too , but no one repsonded in the msn multi convo we had going on.

Assumed he was a namestealer

 

[Crummy]

Haha I have to say I found this ammusing. I was playing at PS last night and as you know they are still running the "Milestone" hands. Well everytime an announcement came up for which table it was about to it I decided to check it out just to "see" the action. I didn't relize they would just freeze the hand once it was played and accounce the winner, so it got old after the first time. However what was funny is that as soon as it would be announced I would look at the table and it would go from 3 - 5 people to a full ring with about 20 people waiting!
Holy crap! These people were on this like shrimp on rice. Funny thing is that once they announced the table, the hand was already delt, so getting there in time to get the bonus would be extremley hard.

 

[Tigersmith]

Sorry I didn't respond to rail chat, I was on my laptop, had chat turned off and I don't have MSN on the laptop.

Not too many people can say they beat out 34,970 others in a MTT.

PokerStars Tournament #126551369, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
35000 players
$150000.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars
Total Prize Pool: $500000.00
Tournament started 2008/12/28 15:30:00 ET

Dear Effexor1,

You finished the tournament in 30th place.
A $700.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 686.79 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tour.../leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

wow go pro lol, great work!