Playing poker for 24 consecutive hours would no problem for most serious players. When you love something, the time just flies by. Gus Hansen is rumoured to have had sessions lasting over 70 hours, but the official recorded game goes to Larry Olmsted in June of 2004. He played a 72-hour session at Foxwoods in Connecticut. He played $.05 ante Seven Card Stud, starting with only $100. He ended up leaving the session with $1000.

A group of players in Greenwich, U.K. set the record for the same group playing non-stop. They played for 43.5 hours uninterrupted, and gave half of the money to charity.

I’ve had 16-hour sessions lots of times, and I usually only stop because I have to do something else, like sleep. Playing another eight hours would be no problem to do if there was a particularly valid reason to play the game that long.