Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

Watch the poker chip stacking world record broken

How many poker chips could you stack in 30 seconds? Well, now you have the benchmark to beat.

It is probably a good thing that live poker is not happening so much right now because poker players around the world would probably try to beat this between hands. 

Serial world record breaker David Rush tried his hand at a very weird feat this week, the record for most chips stacked one handed in 30 seconds. 

Rush managed to stack 48 poker chips in 30 seconds, beating the previous record of 42 set in 2019 by both Silvio Sabba and Rocco Mercurio. Sabba holds the record for most chips stacked in a minute at 75, and the record for two people stacking in one minute, which stands at 118 and was held with Julijana Jankovska. 

If you find it tricky to watch, it took Rush a year and a half to prepare. He holds over 150 world records in total including farthest tortilla thrown, fastest half marathon while skipping and numerous records for juggling weird objects like basketballs. 

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.