Have you ever racked your brain to try to figure out what sort of stunt you could pull that would get you invited into the fabled pages of the Guinness Book of World Records? The folks over at PokerStars have been consumed with just such a thought and they may have actually found a way. Later on this very month, the popular online poker site will try to se a new world record for the largest field ever for an Internet poker tournament.

The special tournament is scheduled for the 28th of December. It will have a cap of 35,000 players. If they get that high of a number, they will for sure be able to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, right alongside that creepy guy with the obscenely long fingernails. The Isle of Man-licensed website hosted a somewhat similar competition last year around this same time in which about 20,000 different players participated in the event. And it was a record at the time. A player named ‘Lynna1’ scored first prize and was able to walk away with $20,000 in prize money.

The buy-in for the tournament is only $11 and the guarantee for the tournament is an impressive $50,000. As almost 2,000 players have registered so far, the folks at PokerStars are confident that they will have no problem getting in the record-breaking number of participants that they need to break the record. The poker tournament will have as many as 3,500 tables all going at the exact same time. Blinds will move very rapidly thanks to 10-minute Turbo-style increases. The action is will be hot for sure!

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