Recently, Russian online poker player innerpsy shattered the record for the most number of online poker hands logged in 24 hours, or one day. His total: a whopping 40,088, which attracted the attention of the entire Russian poker community.
Last Saturday, innerpsy sat down bright and early at 8:30am local time and, 18 hours and 33 minutes later, called it a day after battling against the online poker world over the course of 40,088 hands. The Russian told PokerStars officials following his amazing feat, “Before this challenge, I had never actually played more than 20,000 hands in a day before, but the idea came up and I just figured I could do it. It was one of the toughest things I have ever accomplished, but I am proud I managed it.”
The record-holder has purportedly been playing for “a couple of years” according to PokerStars and the Russian forum Card Game Masters hosted the challenge. A total of 10,000 rabid fans watched innerpsy’s world record attempt by way of two streaming video feeds and poker pro Max Lykov even provided commentary. Lykov knows a thing or two about high-stakes poker, having finished third in this year’s $5,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Shootout during the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Lykov earned $145,000 in the tournament, which saw Peter “Belabacsi” Traply take home the gold bracelet.
The Russian online poker player is a regular grinder on PokerStars and explained, “I gained a lot of experience doing this and will definitely try it again in order to improve upon my result. One of my main goals is also to reach Supernova Elite status.” His bevy of Frequent Player Points (FPPs) earned during the feat will likely go a long way toward achieving Supernova Elite status.
On Sunday, TwoPlusTwo poster ChicagoJoey revealed that his goal is to play 50,000 hands of online poker over a 24-hour period and turn a profit for the session. The recap from PokerStars did not officially mention whether innerpsy won or lost during his 40,088-hand marathon, but ChicagoJoey looked to add to his bankroll. He plays as joeingram1 on the world’s largest online poker site and would head to the $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em or Pot Limit Omaha tables to accomplish the feat. A webcam was even planned so that ChicagoJoey fans could follow the action from the comfort of their own homes.
In the thread announcing ChicagoJoey’s plans, TwoPlusTwo poster LikeUWantIt asserted that he was innerpsy and chimed in, “I might be one of the few people who really realize how difficult it would be.” In a separate thread, innerpsy explained the origins of the record-setting attempt: “i didnt do a single thing to make this article about world record appear. it was just a prop bet and stars representative got interested, so why would i protest if it actually increases my chances to get online pro?” He also revealed that he ran “cold as ice” over the 18-hour event and did not turn a profit.
Despite setting a new world record, innerpsy seemed frustrated at his losing session. He commented in a thread on TwoPlusTwo, “though i still think its kinda ridic to consider -$ session to be a world record, but still… anyway gonna make it with profit sometime soon, hope i wont catch 30bi under-ev swing that time.”
Earlier this month, PokerStars turned in a new record for number of players online at the same time at 317,000. The milestone occurred on November 15th, when PokerStars guaranteed a $2.5 million prize pool for its weekly Sunday Million in honor of $250 million in cash being awarded since the tournament was launched. The winner banked more than $360,000 in one of the largest prizes ever awarded in the history of online poker.
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Sorry buddy, that record was easily broken by the l33t king athene. 50605 hands played in 23hrs, looks like he’s going for 60k. His ultimate is 1mil in one month.
http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/innerpsy-breaks-record-for-online-poker-hands-played-in-one-day-6739/