The most important occasion of the 888poker XL Winter Sequence, the $109 buy-in, $150,000 assured Weekend Thriller Starter has topped its champion. A area of 1,246 entries left a sizeable overlay on the assure, and Brazil’s “djjazz222” took full benefit of the added worth, ultimately popping out on high and taking dwelling $11,010.
Day 2 of the $150,000 assured occasion noticed the sphere whittled to a extra manageable last desk of eight. Brazilian “Nelepo10” went into the ultimate desk holding a colossal chip lead, his 108 massive blinds dwarfing the 34 in “Hodor83″‘s stack. The eventual champion sat down with 17 massive blinds, sufficient for sixth place on the restart.
All the most important bounties have already been claimed. “OchoChoocho” opened a golden envelope containing a $4,500 thriller bounty. After firing eight $109 bullets at this match, they fell in twenty first place.
“nuncanemvi” additionally captured a $4,500 bounty cost earlier than busting in thirteenth, however “qinghe2012” was the participant who opened the jackpot thriller bounty of $15,000. They crashed in 58th however may nonetheless end because the match’s largest winner courtesy of that five-figure bounty cost.
Solely two minutes handed earlier than the ultimate desk misplaced its first participant. All the way down to eight massive blinds, “MarcJohn” open-shoved from beneath the gun with ace-ten however bumped into the pocket queens of “djjazz222” on the button. The queens flopped a set and improved to a ship on the river, and “MarcJohn” was achieved and dusted.
Lower than ten minutes later, “kosmow1” min-raised in center place with king-jack, and “perrivini” defended their massive blind with jack-ten. A king-seven-jack flop noticed “perrivini” check-call a small wager, resulting in a ten on the flip. Having turned two pair and being short-staked, “perrivini” was destined to be all-in. “perrivini” checked the flip however then check-raised all-in after “kosmow1” fired a second barrel. “kosmow1” referred to as the additional chips and swerved one other ten on the river to cut back the participant rely to 6.
These six grew to become 5 after “goldengaze1” of the UK ran out of steam. Thirty minutes into proceedings, the motion folded to “goldengaze1” within the cutoff and so they open-shoved for 9.5 massive blinds with pocket sixes. Ordinarily, such a transfer would scoop the blinds and antes. Nevertheless, “kosmow1” wakened on the button with ace-queen, referred to as the shove, and spiked a hand-winning queen on the river.
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Fifth place went to “Sly_81” who moved all-in for 10 massive blinds with queen-jack beneath the gun just for “kosmow1” to search out pocket kings within the small blind. The queen-jack was drawing useless by the flip.
“Hodor83” busted in fourth ten minutes later after jamming all-in for 8.7 massive blinds with pocket deuces on the button just for “Nelepo10” to name from the massive blind with the superior pocket queens. The 5 group playing cards ran out with no drama, and the ultimate desk was right down to solely three gamers earlier than the primary break of the day.
Three-handed play lasted one of the best a part of an hour, ending with “kosmow1” heading to the showers. “djjazz222” raised 3 times the massive blind on the button with pocket kings earlier than snap-calling the 11 massive blind shove from “kosmow1” from the massive blind, which was made with king-jack. The cowboys held, and the match progressed to heads-up.
“djjazz222” held a 7,799,692 to 4,660,308 chip lead in the beginning of heads-up play however “Nelepo10” levelled issues. With the stacks even, the heads-up duo struck a deal to minimize the pay jumps earlier than resuming the match.
The ultimate hand noticed “djjazz222” again within the lead and opening with king-jack. Just a few emojis later, “Nelepo10” three-bet shoved with pocket fives and was referred to as. A king on the flop gifted the title to “djjazz222.”
Develop the desk beneath and take a look at the outcomes for the finished XL Winter Sequence occasions up to now.
EventEntrantsPrize PoolChampionPrize
#01 – $109 Weekend Thriller Starter1,246$150,000djjazz222$11,010
#02 – $16.50 Opening Occasion Thriller Bounty1,581$23,715klapciukas$2,040
#03 – $33 Opening Event474$14,220Beratna$2,601
#04 – $55 Opening Occasion PKO702$35,100Paulada85$5,449
#05 – $22 Opening Occasion MB Large or Small849$16,980sjae98$2,264
#06 – $1,050 Tremendous Excessive Roller39$40,000Zebest7r$13,680
#07 – $16.50 Day by day Gems PKO Mid774$12,000PrivetPawtet1,767
#08 – $8.80 Day by day Gems PKO Mini615$4,920jan4ixs$892
#09 – $215 Excessive Roller68$13,600ab_wien$3,712
#10 – $55 Day by day Gems PKO389$19,450LimperShroom$3,646
#11 – $33 Day by day Gems Marathon354$10,620Cabbazzzzz$2,048
#12 – $16.50 Day by day Gems Tremendous KO Mini715$12,000p257829$1,204
#13 – $320 Tremendous KO Excessive Roller55$16,500Kabosu69$3,225
#14 – $55 Day by day Gems Thriller Bounty349$17,450UZUN94$2,451
#15 – $109 Day by day Gems Tremendous KO121$12,100Munich111$1,706
All prizes included bounty funds the place relevant
Remaining 888poker XL Winter Schedule
Dozens of tournaments stay on the 888poker XL Winter Sequence schedule. Examine them out beneath, purchase into a few of them, and see when you can change into an XL Winter Sequence champion.
DateTimeXL Winter Event NameBuy-inGTD
22-Jan14:30XL Winter #16 – Day by day Gems – PKO Particular$16.50$4,000
22-Jan16:00XL Winter #17 – Day by day Gems – MB Large or Small Mini$11$10,000
22-Jan18:00XL Winter #18 – Day by day Gems – Thriller Bounty Particular$55$15,000
22-Jan18:00XL Winter #19 – Day by day Gems – MB Large or Small$22$10,000
22-Jan19:00XL Winter #20 – Day by day Gems – Large Shot Particular$109$12,000
22-Jan17:00XL Winter – PKO Rumble 109$109$5,000
22-Jan22:30XL Winter – Thriller Bounty Turbo 16.50$16.50$2,000
23-Jan16:00XL Winter #21 – Day by day Gems – PKO Particular$11$10,000
23-Jan17:00XL Winter #22 – DeepStack Excessive Curler$320$15,000
23-Jan18:00XL Winter #23 – Day by day Gems – DeepStack$55$15,000
23-Jan18:00XL Winter #24 – Day by day Gems – Thriller Bounty Particular$22$10,000
23-Jan19:00XL Winter #25 – Day by day Gems – DeepStack Excessive$109$12,000
23-Jan17:00XL Winter – PKO Rumble 109$109$5,000
23-Jan22:30XL Winter – Thriller Bounty Turbo 16.50$16.50$2,000
24-Jan16:00XL Winter #26 – Day by day Gems – Thriller Bounty Mini$11$12,000
24-Jan18:00XL Winter #27 – Day by day Gems – Thriller Bounty Mid$22$10,000
24-Jan18:00XL Winter #28 – Day by day Gems – Thriller Bounty$55$15,000
24-Jan19:00XL Winter #29 – Day by day Gems – Large Shot Particular$109$12,000
24-Jan17:00XL Winter – PKO Rumble 109$109$5,000
24-Jan22:30XL Winter – Thriller Bounty Turbo 16.50$16.50$2,000
25-Jan16:00XL Winter #30 – Day by day Gems – PKO 6-Max Mid$16.50$12,000
25-Jan17:00XL Winter #31 – PLO Thriller Bounty Particular$11$2,000
25-Jan18:00XL Winter #32 – Day by day Gems – PKO 6-Max$55$15,000
25-Jan18:00XL Winter #33 – Day by day Gems – Thriller Bounty 6-Max Particular$22$10,000
25-Jan19:00XL Winter #34 – Day by day Gems – PKO 6-Max Excessive$109$12,000
25-Jan17:00XL Winter – PKO Rumble 109$109$5,000
25-Jan22:30XL Winter – Thriller Bounty Turbo 16.50$16.50$2,000
26-Jan15:00XL Winter #35 – Day by day Gems – Deepstack Particular$33$10,000
26-Jan16:00XL Winter #36 – Thriller Bounty mini$16.50$20,000
26-Jan17:00XL Winter #37 – Thriller Bounty$55$35,000
26-Jan18:00XL Winter #38 – MB Large or Small Particular$22$12,000
26-Jan19:00XL Winter #39 – THE PKO Rumble$109$50,000
26-Jan19:00XL Winter #40 – Large Shot Excessive Curler$525$30,000
26-Jan17:00XL Winter – Sunday PKO Rumble 109$109$7,000
26-Jan22:30XL Winter – Thriller Bounty Turbo 16.50$16.50$2,000
27-Jan16:00XL Winter #41 – Day by day Gems – PKO mini$16.50$10,000
27-Jan17:00XL Winter #42 – Excessive Curler Particular$215$10,000
27-Jan18:00XL Winter #43 – Day by day Gems – PKO$55$15,000
27-Jan19:00XL Winter #44 – Day by day Gems – Thriller Bounty Particular$33$10,000
27-Jan21:00$100,000 XL Winter #45 – Thriller Bounty Mini Occasion (Day 2)*$25$100,000
27-Jan21:00$1,000,000 XL Winter #46 – Thriller Bounty Major Occasion (Day 2)**$888$1,000,000
27-Jan17:00XL Winter – PKO Rumble 109$109$5,000
27-Jan22:30XL Winter – Thriller Bounty Turbo 16.50$16.50$2,000
28-Jan16:00XL Winter #47 – Day by day Gems – Closing Occasion MB Mini$16.50$12,000
28-Jan17:00XL Winter #48 – Excessive Curler Particular$320$15,000
28-Jan18:00XL Winter #49 – Day by day Gems – Closing Occasion Thriller Bounty$55$20,000
28-Jan18:00XL Winter #50 – Day by day Gems – Large Shot Particular$109$12,000
28-Jan19:00$1,000,000 XL Winter #46 – Thriller Bounty Major Occasion (Remaining Desk)–
28-Jan17:00XL Winter – PKO Rumble 109$109$5,000
28-Jan22:30XL Winter – Thriller Bounty Turbo 16.50$16.50$2,000
Matthew Pitt
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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he grew to become the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from stay reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his function of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
