Phil Laak Try to Break Poker Endurance Record

Beginning on June 2nd at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Phil Laak will try to break the world record of 78 straight hours of playing poker. Presently, the title holder was Paul Zimbler. Furthermore, Laak is inviting challengers in his own online poker site Unabomber Poker to have a duel with him.

As the Poker News Daily sit down with Laak, they questioned about his attempt of breaking the record. His answer to that goes like this, “It’s like this: When I finished college, my friend and I bought motorcycles and wanted to travel to every state. We were going to touch the earth of every state. We did that until we got to 29 states and then things started falling apart. There is no feeling that beat the everyday sensation of driving on new roads. At first, I didn’t know why I was doing it, but later I had a huge sense of accomplishment.”

PND also asked about his resistance with the nearly 80 hours straight game, and he answered saying, It’s all about the body, mind, and spirit. When I knew I was going to do this, I had to get in shape. I put myself on a better diet and started exercising four to seven days per week. As far as the spirit goes, I cut out three things that are not good for my diet anyway: fried foods, cheese, and ice cream. Every time I see those foods, it takes great will power for me to resist them. I needed training on not getting what I want. My mantra for the challenge is, “In order to break, you must stay awake.”

Lastly, he tells PND on how challengers can join the faceoff in Las Vegas, he ended up saying, we’re giving people three chances to make history. We’ll be having a $50 buy-in tournament on May 27th at 6:00pm PT. The winner will head to Las Vegas and we’ll be refunding everyone’s buy-in, making the event basically free.

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