{"id":5483,"date":"2009-12-27T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2009-12-27T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T15:44:15","slug":"pokerstars-looking-to-set-world-record-in-tournament-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/27\/pokerstars-looking-to-set-world-record-in-tournament-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"PokerStars looking to set world record in tournament this afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a poker player and looking for something to do around 1:45 Central time, log onto PokerStars and play in what they&#8217;re hoping will be a tournament that breaks a record for most players ever.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good deal too &#8211; only $1 to buy in, $300,000 prize pool guaranteed, top 30,000 finishers will cash.\u00a0 First place is said to be $50,000, not a bad ROI for a $1 buy-in.\u00a0 Players will start with 2000 in chips and blinds will increase every 5 minutes.\u00a0 As of the time of this post (9:44 AM) there are just under 100,000 players entered.\u00a0 Go to &#8220;Tourney\/All&#8221; in the PokerStars lobby and look for the World Record tourney to register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a poker player and looking for something to do around 1:45 Central time, log onto PokerStars and play in what they&#8217;re hoping will be a tournament that breaks a record for most players ever.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good deal too &#8211; only $1 to buy in, $300,000 prize pool guaranteed, top 30,000 finishers will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/27\/pokerstars-looking-to-set-world-record-in-tournament-this-afternoon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PokerStars looking to set world record in tournament this afternoon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->