Online poker player breaks record for most hands in a day

Mandatory equipment, when playing 40,088 hands of poker in a day

When most poker players settle down for some online action, they sit down at a single cash table or enter one tournament at a time. There’s also a sizeable minority who play two or three or five tables at once, satisfying their ADD and love of the game at the same time. And then there’s the Russian online player who recently set a world record by playing the most hands ever within a 24 hour period. Over the course of 18 hours and 33 minutes, “innerspy” played 40,088 hands of online poker.

To put that in perspective, the average online poker game features somewhere around thirty hands per hour. At that rate, you’d have to play for 55 days, grinding it out twenty-four hours a day. Obviously “innerspy” played a whole lot of tables at once, and kept his bathroom breaks to a minimum.

The twenty-two year old poker pro was inspired to set the new record by an anonymous challenge issued on a Russian poker forum. Until he sat down to take on the challenge Saturday morning, he’d never played more than a paltry 20,000 hands in a day.

Of course there’s one question that wasn’t answered in any of the stories about this amazing feat – was he up or down at the end of the day? Because sure, playing 40,088 hands in one day is impressive. But playing 40,088 hands and turning a profit? That’s something to really brag about.