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It’s just after 4 AM here and I just finished playing the Midnight Madness. OK, I won it, but that’s not even why I’m rushing to post this before I fall asleep.

Remember last December when I offered to set a world record for the longest time playing poker for Full Tilt, as counterprogramming to PokerStars running the largest-ever online tournament? Full Tilt never met my conditions (or even got back to me) so it didn’t go anywhere.

Well folks, in winning the Midnight Madness on February 18, I set a world record:

THE BIGGEST COMEBACK IN TOURNAMENT POKER HISTORY

This was just an $11 tournament, and first prize was just $4,200 – I know guys are kicking themselves for making ONLY that much in some FTOPS events – but I am as serious as I can be about this. Nobody has ever staged a bigger comeback than me in this tournament.

There were 2,332 entries in the tourament, for a total of 3,498,000 chips in play. On the second hand – while hundreds of players were still signing up and only a handful had been eliminated – I reraised all-in preflop with pocket queens, was called by pocket kings, and was all but busted. Because of how the blinds fell, I had 30 chips more than my opponent – the size of the big blind. Because the late-entry period was still running, there were about 1,800 players in the tournament at that moment and I was in last place.

I rebounded from 30 chips after 1 minute to get all 3,498,000 chips five hours and forty-four minutes later. I’ve mentioned in this blog some big comebacks I’ve made in tournaments on Full Tilt but never anything like this. In fact, I don’t think ANYONE has EVER done anything like this.

Until me.

Until now.

Once I get some sleep, I’ll write an entry explaining how it happened. But for now, it is, as they say, HISTORY.

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4 Responses to “#673 – I Promised Full Tilt a Record and I Delivered”

1. LAPPIN Says:
   February 18th, 2009 at 9:04 am

   OMFG – Would the real Jack Strauss please stand up!

2. Top15Poker01 Says:
   February 27th, 2009 at 10:01 am

   That is a great come back of him!! Really i feel proud to be a member on this. Thanks really and i just saw the latest scores on it and found his strategy was up and high and high!!! Great thing in the poker!!

   http://www.top15poker.com/

3. Eduardo Nogueira Says:
   August 13th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

   I once had one big blind too but it was on middle stages of the tournament. I came back and got into the money. Actually, I goto into the final table. But not first place like you did.

   Congratulations!

4. kfletch92 Says:
   November 2nd, 2010 at 6:56 am

   thats pretty good, but i think i mite have just set a world record comeback. i just came second in an $11 sit n go after going down to 10 chips.

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