Archive - Jul 2009

So you invest $5 into a 50,000-player tournament on Sunday, win 1st place for $45,000, and what do you do?

Go back to grinding a $10 heads-up sit'n'go.

That's what Chicago-based breo40 did, coming down off Full Tilt's largest tournament in their history, which lasted almost 9 hours (the final table alone was 90 minutes).

That's dedication. We don't know if we'd have that much restraint and discipline not to jump into a higher limit game, you know, to parlay.

The battle of the online poker giants has ended with one victor for the Guinness World Record of most amount of players in a single poker tournament.

Full Tilt achieved their max of 50,000 players, beating Poker Stars' record by 15,000 players. That $5 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed tournament begins today at 12:05 p.m. PT.

We don't know who came first, but on the same day that Full Tilt seeks to break the world record for most players in a single tournament, PokerStars will also be competing.

Stars claimed the record to begin with, at 35,000 players on Dec. 28, 2008.

Both sites already have more than the record amount of players.

Tilt has capped theirs at 50,000 (currently at 41,884 at this posting). Their tourney is a $5 with a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.

If you've had a taste of the WSOP and are craving some of the same action but at little cost, all the while breaking a Guinness World Record, Full Tilt is the place to be.

As part of their 5th anniversary, the online poker site is hoping to break a world record for most players in a single tournament.

At the time of this posting, there are 40,321 players registered at $5 a pop (no entry fee). The tourney is capped at 50,000, and with a $500,000 prize pool, that means Full Tilt is putting up 100 percent of the buy-ins.