Another Record for PokerStars

http://www.rwsop.com/poker-news/guinness-book-of-world-records-identifies-poker-stars.html

Years ago back in this blog I talked about this from a rational and mathematical angle. Basically, the peak of Internet poker interest capped in the mid 2000's. At a time ESPN was showing final tables of huge tournaments. People were watching poker on TV instead of the Knicks losing. OK...bad example.

But as a species humans bore easily. Especially when not successful. I have the luxury of having been successful at pretty much everything I put my mind to. Memorized Pi to 115 decimal places, beat my brother at Super Mario Brothers after four months of practice after he had been playing for years and almost acheived a master rating at chess before poker took over my life.

The time dedication that goes into such ventures is substantial, especially considering that real life issues must be addressed. Eating, sleeping, feeding the dog, servicing the significant other even with a raging hangover, etc...

Now we have a bunch of poker shows on TV cancelled due to low ratings, the US market locked out from real money play and yet still PS can draw 150-200k players very interested in the poker as the source of their entertainment.

At the 15 billionth hand milestone the math didn't work, and the math is getting worse.

A few questions come to mind.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, did it really fall?

If a bear shits in the woods and nobody is there to smell it, did it really dump it?

If a poker hand is dealt online and there is no real human at the table to see it, does it really count towards a Guinness record milestone?

Of course it does. Guinness Records has obviously proved my math and experience wrong and that all the positions I thought were obviously AI were really just coked up poker addicts playing like two year olds. I mean, they must have had a way to seriously check out the reported numbers, right? Or maybe coked up two year olds playing like addicts. I don't remember exactly what I thought.

The good and the bad news about this. Since I'm wrong and the reader base of this blog is just for the hot Asian chicks we here at the Big Lay Down are planning our own celebration. There has been more than 750 pictures of hot Asian chicks posted here. No more pictures of Jarah other than this one tonight will be posted. The 1,000th Asian hottie pic will be of this goddess. The first person who posts a comment to the post will win an all expense paid trip to Hawaii for two and a $2,000 gift certificate for Ben and Jerry's ice cream. At the current pace this will be approximately February 2012.