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Randy Lew Sets Online Poker World Record
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2012-01-13 05:33
A few days ago we featured a piece on Randy Nanonoko Lew going for a Guinness World record at the 2012 PCA and we can now tell you his attempt was crowned with success. He was going to put as many hands into 8 hours of online play at PokerStars as possible, and he was going to do it while turning a profit. Eventually, his tally came to 24,493 hands over 8 hours, which meant an hourly average of 2,936.63 hands and about 48.94 hands a minute. Logging such truly otherworldly numbers isn’t easy of course. Lew found it extremely difficult to
play poker profitably, and in the end he had to make do with a measly profit of $7.65. Although unimpressive in terms of productivity, the 7 bucks were enough to make the World Record official.
The session was a true feat of endurance. Having taken a seat in the PCA tournament room at 1PM, Lew didn’t rest, didn’t eat and didn’t use the bathroom for 8 straight hours while playing. He fired up a whole bunch of tables at PokerStars, with a maximum of 40 running at the same time.
The record-setting didn’t go smoothly at all. At one point it looked like keeping his head above water profit-wise would prove impossible for Nanonoko. He was down about $1.2k and he found himself chasing his loses. Even with just 17 minutes to go in the challenge, he was only $8+ up and as shaky as ever. Eventually, he did manage to preserve his fragile advantage though and the record attempt was successful.
When down in the $1.2k hole, things looked like they may be over for him. He had to take some desperate measures, like going up the limits and focusing more on the action to recoup his losses.
Towards the end of the attempt, Lew began closing tables one by one to make sure his advantage remained standing. In one of his final hands, he won a three way pot with pocket rockets.
