As announced a couple of weeks ago in the PokerNews BlogNews Weekly, PokerStars set a new record for the most real-money tournament entrants in a single tournament on Sunday, Oct. 4 when 253,698 entered the Common Cents Kick-Off, the opening event in the inaugural Common Cents poker festival.
The previous record of most entrants in a single tournament also belonged to PokerStars, when in June 2013 during the Road to 100 Billion celebration, 225,000 players ponied up the $1 buy-in to play in the PokerStars Guinness World Record Attempt.