PokerStars Guiness World Record Tournament Registration Closed!

[PokerNations]

There is now 35,040 registered players for this historic event, with close to a $150,000 overlay on the tournament as well.

Guesses on how long it will take to finish? Levels are 10 minutes each with 3,000 starting stacks and blinds beginning at 10/20

Kind of disappointing is that first place is a measly $30,000. I figured they'd have it at least around $50,000 for first minimum, out of the 500K prize pool. But it looks like they're paying out 8,750 places (top 25%) which is kind of lame.

[MJ]

Stars always pays too damn many, name one casino that does that!

[Tea Flow]

The 2.5 mil sunday tourney too.

[PTC]

I noticed this and thought that was weird. Since this morning it has dropped back down to 35K entrants where the cap is supposed to be.

[PokerNations]

There's going to be 105 million chips in play, should be a pretty crazy final table!

The final blind level is 20/40 million with a 5 million ante (hooray for luckfests!)

edit: Based on my calculations this tournament with 35K players will only take a little over 10 hours to complete (63 blind levels x 10 mins each = 630 minutes = 10.5 hours)

Based on chips in play I can't see it going beyond that timeframe.

[gooderpoker]

This will take a LONG time... if i were playing I might get some friends on stand by to fill in for me as the hours go on. Tag team poker match

[PokerNations]

This will take a LONG time... if i were playing I might get some friends on stand by to fill in for me as the hours go on. Tag team poker match

nah, 10 hours is nothing in the grand scheme of poker events. Given the structure I don't see how it can go beyond that

[cbe2869]

Brag: Cashed in the the largest poker tourney ever outlasting over 33k players

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 makeutap247,

You finished the tournament in 1783rd place.
A $60.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 89.09 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.

Beat: Played for 4 hours to only make $49 profit

Double Beat: Got knocked out after getting it all in with KK against AJo after the flop with a donk holding A high with no draws only for him to hit running jacks on the turn and river.

[PokerNations]

Congrats on going so deep. I picked up pocket Aces early and doubled through a guy with Queens (all-in preflop, I busted him as well)

But my next pair of Aces got cracked by AK of clubs (87/13 favorite preflop, on the flop he picks up the flush draw, on the turn we're 80/20 and he spikes it on the river)

By the time the blinds hit 100/200 with an ante I was down to around 2400 chips. In the BB with AT of clubs. VERY active LP player raises again. I have enough chips to get some fold equity against a lot of hands in his range, so I make the shove.

He insta-calls with AQ of diamonds. Flop is ten-high but with two diamonds (it's never easy). Then the Q on the turn pretty much seals the deal and I'm sent packing. Ah well.

[gooderpoker]

you walked away with coin in your pocket so that always good.
Does anyone have an idea of how long the game took to get a winner?