Full Tilt to host record breaking tournament
The folks at Guinness will be standing by Sunday as Full Tilt attempts to break the record for the largest poker tournament ever held.
As the final piece of the site's five-year anniversary promotion, Full Tilt plans to seat 35,000 players for a $5 buy-in event beginning July 19th at 3:05 p.m. ET. Seats can also be purchased for 1,000 FPPs.
Some of the biggest names in poker are expected to take part, including Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer.
"By extending the limits of what is possible in online poker tournaments, Full Tilt Poker will allow players to compete for a big payout without the big buy-in," said Lederer.
Not only will the tournament be record-breaking in size, but Full Tilt has matched the guarantee, adding an additional $250k to the total prize pool, making this a chance to play for a $500,000 minimum prize pool for as little as $5.
With this many players, staging such an event in the live poker world would be next to impossible.
To date, the largest-ever live tournament was the 2006 WSOP Main Event with 8,772 players, just one quarter of the expected field size Sunday.
To be part of this world-record attempt, and have a chance at winning a piece of the half-million prize pool, log in or sign up to Full Tilt Poker and find the world record tournament in the tournaments section.
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Comments
7lol
2009-07-31get a better computer, and a better connection
Fairuz
2009-07-21same here.. only 1 hour 30 mins? you're lucky
it took me bout 5 hour to get in.. no chip left.. but take 10300 place from 50000 people.. waste of 5 dollar for sure..
Mark B
2009-07-20Its a shame Full Tilts software could not cope. I was registered but took 1 hour 30 mins to get in.
No chips left.
Gone!!!!
R Keller
2009-07-19Pokerstars has 65,000 & Fulltilt has 50,000 with alternates, but will Fulltilt have 15,001 alternates, I think not.
Pokerstars pussed out with the dollar buy in, they should have went 5 dollars also, in my book Fulltilt is KING
MoneyBag09
2009-07-19Yeah i just found out Stars is doing the some thing only they aint stupid and put a cap on the entry lol, fulltilt is maxed out on 50,000 while pokerstars is still in reg with over 60,000
mickpalmer
2009-07-19PokerStars is running the same thing actually, I guess it's a little friendly competition between the two sites, and since PokerStars currently holds the crown, I guess they plan to keep it.
PokerStars is currently over the 35000 record mark with about 48000 alread registered, their buy-in is only $1 as well so it's just enough cheaper that it might grab a few fishes into the fray as well.
MoneyBag09
2009-07-18Im in, theres one day left and already 34,000 ppl registerd, i think it will max out to 50,000 tomoz :)