Poker players often display a great deal of ingenuity when it comes to drawing, flipping, and reeling chips while at the table. One player recently added a sense of balance to that list and earned a Guinness World Record in the process.
Italian Rocco Mercurio managed to balance 255 poker chips on one finger to claim the ‘distinction’ of the Guinness World Record. An Instagram video of the feat shows Mercurio stacking several stacks of chips on a table before then stacking them on top of each other with his index finger.
The talented chip balancer then balances the stack for several seconds before finally seeing the stack fall – pumping his fist in celebration.
Man of many “records”
Whether this is a significant achievement is in the eye of the beholder. But Mercurio is no stranger to setting Guinness World Records with some of his other various feats, including most cups balanced on the forehead, most cups held in one hand, most coins rolled at once, fastest time to flip three water bottles, and fastest time To apply 10 surgical masks (including a separate record for completing the task blindfolded) and many more.
There is no information on whether Mercurio is a poker player himself, as he does not appear in any poker tournament database, but he has also expanded his penchant for breaking pool records, where he holds the record for most balls held in one hand at 17.
The video of Mercurio’s chip-balancing prowess has received more than 62,000 views since Guinness posted it on its YouTube page. However, reactions were very mixed among viewers. Despite the number of likes, one Instagram viewer pointed out: “World record… something like that? The whole world has no talent? “
Poker is no stranger to the Guinness Book of World Records. In 2010, Phil Laak set the record for the longest continuous poker session, logging 115 hours of $10-$20 no-limit play at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
This record was then broken in 2019 by Zach Gensler, who played 124 consecutive hours at Resorts World with a $1-$3 No Limit Hold’em table.
“I wanted to be a part of poker history,” Gensler told Card Player.
