Russian pro breaks the world record for the most hands played in a day

Russian pro breaks the world record for the most hands played in a day

Monday, 30 November 2009

It’s a given that online players rack up more hands than their bricks and mortar counterparts. Russian pro “innerpsy” has taken that maxim to its extreme by breaking the world record for the most hands played in a 24-hour period.

The 22-year-old sat down at 8.30am on Saturday morning and 18 hours 33 minutes later had clocked up his 40,088th hand on PokerStars to enter the record books. To put that into perspective, it would take a player in a casino around 56 days and nights to reach that amount.


Speaking to PokerStars, innerpsy said, "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. 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."


He's certainly well on the way to reaching that goal.



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