by David Aydt

record-attempt-thumb.jpgWe have a new record:

In total, 149,196 people lined up their one dollar bills this evening to be a part of history.

To put this massive Guinness Book of World Records breaking tournament into perspective here's how many people played tonight:

  • That number represents three times the population of my suburb.
  • It would fill the Rose Bowl or Wembley stadiums and still have another 60,000 people with tickets waiting outside in the tailgating parking lot.
  • There were approximately 23 times as many players tonight than in the WSOP Main Event won by Team PokerStars Pro Joe Cada
  • Over twice as many players as the previous record for the largest online tournament. Held by... PokerStars with 65,000 players back in July
  • Slightly less than the amount of dollars currently on my Visa card thanks to being a spoiling parent during the holiday season.
  • The players would have filled up the hotel rooms in the Las Vegas MGM Grand 30 times
  • 944 times the amount of players at the recently finished Macau Poker Cup Championship won by Devan Tang

    • Well you get the idea.

    The kicker is that the tournament was finished in under six hours as the $300,000 guarantee from PokerStars created a $50,000 first prize thanks to the massive overlay.

    We're sure oskar69 is happy about the ROI from the win today, as no deal was reached and the entire $50,000.00 was awarded for besting this massive field shown below:

    WorldRecordTourney.jpg

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    Congratulations to oskar69 and all of the 30,000 players who cashed this evening and thank you for setting yet another Guinness Book of Records record here at PokerStars!

    $300,000 Guarantee World Record Tournament Results (12-27-09)
    1. oskar69 (garbsen) $50,000.00
    2. Bommel222 (Steirer) $30,000.00
    3. TLWPB (Kiel) $20,000.00
    4. willis59 (billingham) $10,000.00
    5. kruglay (Samara) $8,000.00
    6. madmick62 (Basingstoke) $6,500.00
    7. DS1982 (Lier) $5,250.00
    8. denmil53 (mpls) $4,000.00
    9. bigsnapper7 (brisbane) $3,000.00