ElkY World Record Attempt

<img src="http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Raidern/09april/telkychallenge.jpg" align="right" style="margin:8px; border:1px solid black;">Two days after finishing 3rd at the WPT Championships, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier will try to set a new world record in online poker. On April 28, 13h ET (tomorrow), he will try to be the player with the highest number of sit & go's played at the same time. It's not the first time Elky tries to set a record in poker. A couple years ago, he marked his name in PokerStar's history by becoming the first player ever to reach Supernova Elite Status.

The World Record attempt will take place in Monte Carlo, France, during the grand final of the European Poker Tour. It's obvious that Elky can't play the sit & go's alone, and they are open to anyone who wants to take part on it. Everyone that plays in one of the S&G will earn a ticket to a special freeroll with a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool. The freeroll will take place on May 6, at PokerStars. To be part of Elky's record attempt, all you have to do is:

* Open the PokerStars lobby and click 'Requests'.
* Select 'Find a Team PokerStars Player'.
* Click on ElkY to see a list of tables he will be playing on.

In order for the record to be valid, Elky must follow some rules:

* He has just one hour to open as many $6.50 Sit & Go’s as he can.
* He has to finish playing at all the tables he’s sat down at.
* He must finish with an overall positive bankroll.

PokerStars will be filming the event, so you can watch it at www.pokerstars.tv one day later, on April 29, 11h ET.

what's the current record? and wtf, finish with a positive br?? that's tough

i can play nl2 24 tables with positive winrate? am i teh record winnar

I'm pretty sure he won't open only 24, more like 50+

137!

wait, overall positive bankroll? So, does that mean that he could start with a 1M bank roll, open 1000 of those 6.50 SnGs, lose ALL of them, and still get the record? Doesn't sound very hard to me.

... obv it means he has to show profit

so sick

ElkY is such an epic hero. God.

wait so if i be a duche bag and play alll of these sit and goes too then he wont break the record right? assuming i run good LOL

yeah, this will be tough b/c everybody is gunning to take out elky.

whats the over/under :O

On April 27 2009 14:17 DooMeR wrote: wait so if i be a duche bag and play alll of these sit and goes too then he wont break the record right? assuming i run good LOL

I'm guessing you need someone from the site to be sitting next to you and verify that its one guy playing all of them.

finishing positive is gonna be the hard part, hope he gets lucky, if hes unlucky he'll never finish positive.

i bet if people just started calling him bertrand everyone would be like who are you talking about is this some new guy

this boku87 guy who had a prop bet about sng's he played about 60 of em iirc (there is an older vid on youtube of him playing like 50 sngs on stars)

seems sick for elky to do more and actually turn a profit

is he playing w/ tableninja?

this is retarded

elky is gonna have to play 100 IMO

which is insane to think about lol

what's the current record?

and does he get to use any huds / tableninja type of programs?

at least he's playing the micro stakes so competition will be soft as long as good players aren't assholes and sit at his tables to give him trouble, hehe

doomo arigato elky roboto

Go ElkY FTW!!!

in 1h elky can play 120 6$ S&Gs

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Would be sick to have a Boku vs Elky challenge.
I see Elky having 41 tables open right now.

That would be a standard session for boku

On April 28 2009 12:50 PplusAD wrote: Would be sick to have a Boku vs Elky challenge. I see Elky having 41 tables open right now. That would be a standard session for boku

+1

Seems like a pretty random thing to do...

Pictures I made. Nice guy.

results?

62

29 dollars profit, 62 tables = world record

sick hero, nice setup

lol 62,

epic fail

so many people can play more than 62, that guy with the SnG 10 000$ prop bet played like 50+ per hr 12 hours per day lol

62_lol.

you mean 50+ per hour 12 hours per day?

On April 28 2009 19:42 MysticJoey wrote: you mean 50+ per hour 12 hours per day?

yup.

Yeah 62 seems kinda underwhelming in the wake of Boku winning that prop bet...

isnt this pretty luck based?
i mean lets say elky played 70 sngs, maybe there would be so many tables that his ROI would go as low as 1%, and sometimes he would win it and sometimes not

even if his ROI was 10% it would be possible for him to be down on his money if he got quite unlucky

I'm distinctly unimpressed. I've played 40 profitably with no add-ons. With Table Ninja I think I can do 62 and profit. Not significant.

I'm pretty sure had about 12 more tables going inside his Table Ninja moniti-shades

it's alot harder doing it on 4 screens tho
and I'm doubting he used scripts

On April 29 2009 04:51 ToTehEastSide wrote: it's alot harder doing it on 4 screens tho and I'm doubting he used scripts

Him having the tables tiled was a bit strange as well, I'd figure it would be much easier to do it with the tables were cascaded directly on top of each other.

of course this wont be that impressive to us

but to everyone else its sick

He really handicapped himself by using 4 monitors imo. Im pretty sure if stars wants i can beat 62 without using any software(i'm assuming thats how many elky played in an hour and not at once).

BUT if elky played that many at once nm thats insane.

4 monitors makes it wayyy harder because you have to move your mouse across all 4 monitors. I've done 40 and i usually cascade it on one monitor so i don't have a sore neck from looking at 3 extra monitors.