What's the longest session you've done at a table?
The longest I've ever played (losing) at a table was 16 hours and I thought it was quite long. A friend of mine just told me he did a 36 hour stretch (winning).
Post whether you ended up or down at the end.
Post whether you ended up or down at the end.
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73 hours.
I got up to piss, shit, eat and play Wheel of Fortune to 'clear my head'.
Probably 70 hours of table time.
Winning. 1/2NL at Binion's with no max.
Bought in for $400, left with $4870.
Oh, and that 7 or 8 hour session was comprised of a small tournament and some before and after side games. I had a fairly profitable night.
Edit: Personally, my endurance has never really been tested yet. I primarily play local home games and online, so I don't think I've ever gone longer than 7 or 8 hours. I'm sure I could play longer, given the oppurtunity.
We had a pretty amazing run once where a bunch of us met at a friends restaurant for breakfast, and then moved to the poker table he had upstairs. That was Saturday morning. There was a revolving cast of players, but the game continued well into Sunday evening. That was a fun weekend.
After about 36 hours your body starts to ache. But I was drink one Sobe energy drink per orbit so my mind was still alive and wanted to play. But Saturday at about 11PM I thought about leave...I was at like 50 hours. But it was some bike show in Vegas and all these drunk bikers just kept losing so much money. I couldn't leave such a juicy game. It is crazy when you stand up at the end of the session and can't walk. I cabbed 2 blocks back to my apartment...it was sick.
coffee, red bull, pay attention to hands you're not in (good advice regardless but it will help your mind from drifting away, never to return), stand up and stretch, spend 20 seconds doing big long inhales and exhales of air, flex your leg muscles rapidly for a minute under the table.
I've had dumps that take longer than that. Come on, man up!
Eat more fibre
no offence but this is pathetic
1/2 200 max NL and some 10/20 and 15/30 limit short-handed.
By the end of the 76 hour session I started to hear people talking to me that weren't really saying anything to me and got a really spaced out feeling kind of like being on mushrooms back in the day.
Certainly an experience i won't forget and the 20 hour sleep I took after that was so awesome.
72 hours is sick man SICK