Randy Lew Sets World Record for Profitable Multitabling

Randy "nanonoko" Lew set a world record Sunday, playing the most profitable hands of online poker ever recorded in an eight hour span. Lew set the record while at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, playing in the tournament room while a PCA event went on around him.

In order to set the record, Lew played an incredible 40 tables of simultaneous online poker on a two monitor setup while a Guinness World Record judge watched his every move. In total, Lew played an incredible 23,493 hands, and finished the session with a profit of $7.65.

There was significant doubt as to whether Lew could be able to accomplish his incredible feat. At one point during the session, Lew was down around $1,200 before jumping up in stakes to $5/$10 in order to climb back into the black.

"I really was running horrible," Lew said. "But I was trying to stay focused like 'You can't let this get to you.' But I still played well and tried to play my best, and eventually it worked out. Twelve hundred was rough, though. It could've been game over, to be honest."

Eventually, Lew would work his way back to profitability, but the issue was still in doubt with only a few minutes left in his session. Up by a few dollars late in the action, and sure that he had played plenty of hands to qualify for the record, Lew began shutting down tables in order to lock in his profit.

Finally, with only one table left open, Lew found himself in a difficult spot -- being dealt pocket aces. Despite calls from the gallery for him to fold and lock in his record, Lew played the hand as he normally would. Luckily for him, the aces held up, and Lew was able to claim a new world record.

Some of the numbers coming out of Lew's world record achievement are incredible for anyone who has ever played online poker. Lew averaged over 2,900 hands per hour, or nearly 49 hands each minute. That works out to taking an average of only 1.2 seconds per hand throughout the entire session. Despite only eeking out a few dollars in profits, Lew did earn another kind of reward for his trouble; in the eight-hour session, he earned 22,784 FPPs, enough to earn at least a couple hundred dollars in bonus rewards, tournament entries or merchandise.