Phil “The Unabomber” Laak has broken the world record for endurance poker.
Things got underway Wednesday at the Bellagio as Phil Laak started playing poker in hour one. His ultimate goal? Eighty hours of continuous poker.
At 12:06pm Las Vegas time he had done it, skipping past Larry Olmsted’s record of 72 hours 2 minutes, the official Guinness Book of Records time. There was, however, one more record to break; the unofficial record set by Paul Zimbler of 78 hours 45 minutes.
By the late evening, when many of his compatriots were elbow deep in WSOP events across town at the Rio, Laak became a world record holder, something he’s wanted since he tried to set the record for pogo-stick jumping as a kid (he lasted a whole ten minutes.)
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