With 2009 shaping up to be the year of the poker challenge, a relative unknown by the name of Nick Rainey (aka Stinko_Mikko on Full Tilt Poker) has entered the fray. He vowed to play more sit-and-gos in one month than anyone else in online history. Rainey, who had a brief career as a professional tennis player and is no stranger to seemingly ridiculous prop bets, found the existing record to be around 10,500 – though, Rainey says, it was reached by a bot. He wanted to bet that he could play 15,000 sit-and-gos in 31 days. ‘People on the 2+2 forums said 15,000 was too easy,’ remembers Rainey.