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Sunday’s Stars’ Guinness World Record Tournament had all the elements of excitement expected reaching the 35,000 entrance cap. PokerStars players in the tournament are now waiting for the official word from the Guinness officials, which should be verified in the coming weeks.

The entry fee to the tournament was $11+1 for each poker player to use their skill to win the $500,000 prize and a chance to be a part of the Guinness World Record Tournament. After the entry fees PokerStars put up the additional money for the prize and Stan34powa was the poker player that went home with the prize. Stan34powa outlasted 34,999 other skilled poker players to end the game when he called holding an 8 & 2 for the top pair. A J on the turn had stan34powa a head of the poker players that were still left in the tournament. The 7 on the river is the card that ended the tournament for the players still at the table and gave stan34powa the winning hand.

Nine hours into the tournament stan34powa found him self in heads-up play with meiky777 with 67,786,946 in chips against stan34powa 37,213,054 in chips. In the 52nd level of the tournament with the blinds and antes were 1,250,000/2,500,000/312,500, a limped pot with a flop of 8 3 and 5. meiky777 bet 2,500,000 and stan34powa raised to 7,500,00. This is when meiky777 moved all in with 31,198,892 with an A and K, leaving stan34powa to call and end the game with the winning hand.

Players leaving the final table in the money of the Guinness World Record Tournament were:

Stan34powa leaving the table with $30,000

Meiky777 who left the table with $20,000

Rumred14 with $15,000

Goldman007 with $10,000

Nekochan48 with $7,500

Gustave44 with $5,000

N0ideahh with $3,500

Alepolice with $2,500

ONE_TIMEE with $2,000

FuFish with $1,500

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Tuesday the Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG released a statement acknowledging a software malfunction in their UltimateBet division of the Tokwiro Enterprises. During their released statement they explained the malfunction and the fix that has been swiftly put into place to correct the problem from future occurrences.

The malfunction occurred during a hand being played of $200/400 heads-up limit texas hold’em when the well-known player Phil Hellmuth was awarded the pot in error. Instead of the winner of the hand DOUBLEBALLER, to the amazement of fans watching the hand and the players. DOUBLEBALLER won the hand against Phil Hellmuth after Hellmuth tried bluffing with 10-2 and DOUBLEBALLER won by throwing trip queens.

An examination of the hand histories at UltimateBet, proved DOUBLEBALLER had won the hand which was paid to Hellmuth. The malfunction occurred when DOUBLEBALLER was disconnected from the server according to the UltiamteBet server. This disconnect caused his holdings to be cleared from the software at the exact second the pot was being decided and awarded. The software then assumed Hellmuth was the winner.

UltimateBet then paid the correct winner of the hand and after examining how the malfunction occurred began programming an extra level of software to secure the problem. When the fix was being put into place and tested a second flaw was discovered, which had paid out an extra 36 players incorrect payouts on the site. After seeing the results of these players’ hands the correct payouts were paid to the winning players and this flaw was fixed.

Tokwiro stated these malfunctions can no longer be reproduced with the UltimateBet software. This has been tested extensively and is no longer an issue where the incorrect player will be credited, including players being disconnected and any other scenario that might cause a malfunction ending in the wrong player winning the pot.

The investigation into this malfunction is continuing according to Tokwiro, they plan to conduct an extensive investigation to ensure there have been no other incidences in the hand histories where the payout has not been correct. They have also stated the investigation will continue until they are satisfied there have been no other occurrences such as the one in the hand mix up of Hellmuth and DOUBLEBALLER.

On a side note we have to mention that Absolute Poker is on the same network as UltimatBet so this glitch should now be fixed on their software as well.

PokerStars are aiming to get a place in the Guinness Book of Records by arranging a tournament that can take up to 35 000 players.

The tournament will be held at the 28th of December and the buy in is only $11. The prize pool is guaranteed to be $500 000 which means that even if 35 000 players should register for this tournament there will still be a $150 000 overlay.

Until now the biggest online poker tournaments have had around 20 000 players, so if PokerStars manages to pull this off they will break the old record by far which would give them a secure spot in the Book of Records. At the time of writing there are about 8000 players registered for this tournament and if you want to make sure that you have a spot we suggest that you register before the 28th of December as chances are it will be full before that once the word really gets out.

The winner of this tournament will get $30 000 and there are a total of 8750 places paid in this tournament.

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