When looking ahead at the schedule for 888poker’s online poker winter series, XL Blizzard, players likely made a point to circle January 21 on their calendar. Five events took place on Sunday, the most schedules on any day over the entire 11-day schedule, and the $580,000 worth of guarantees that came with them was second […]

The penultimate day of 888poker‘s XL Eclipse was one of their biggest yet. With over $300,000 in guarantees spread over 13 tournaments, including a trio of 6-Max tournaments, there was plenty of money up for grabs before Sunday’s super-sized schedule and the $1,500,000 XL Eclipse Main Event.

888poker‘s mega-series XL Eclipse officially entered the fourth quarter of their schedule on Thursday, highlighted by the six-figure guarantee of Event #152 ($215 $100,000 Quarterback NLHE). At the end of the day, 157 of the scheduled 197 events would be complete with 13 new champions being crowned.

In addition to the return of PLO to the XL Eclipse schedule, 888poker unveiled their latest tournament theme catered to those players who always want to know “what’d you have?” A pair of “ShowMe!” tournaments added a new wrinkle to the game where every winning hand would be revealed. Every bluff, every value bet and […]

The 888poker XL Inferno tournament series concluded Sunday with the $1 million guaranteed Main Event. ‘Alien_Army‘ topped all opponents with a $291,007 score for first place in the $1,050 No Limit Hold’em showcase which attracted over 1,300 entries. Second place went to ‘stevachenko7‘ who reached a heads-up agreement to take home $226,718 with ‘sngguru‘ receiving […]

As the 888poker XL Inferno draws to a close on Sunday, only a handful of players have managed to win more than one event. Two more players added their names to that list on Saturday as ‘PokerMogo’ and ‘Gandalf_MRS’ each managed to navigate their way to another XL Inferno title. While those two may have […]

The 888 Poker XL Inferno online poker tournament series entered its final weekend Friday with PocketFives members coming out on top in a number of the larger events. ‘SmallKindB‘ of the Czech Republic (ranked #223) led the way with a $5,644 score for first place in the Crocodile. ‘Juanfran1973‘ took home $4,069 for runner-up in […]

Of the 12 events on the Day 12 888poker XL Inferno, none were bigger than the $215 Quarterback. Thomas ‘WushuTM’ Muhlocker beat out the 587-player field to win just over $26,000 – the biggest single score on Thursday. That final table also included Adrian ‘ADRI_ATM’ Mateos. Fresh off of his PokerStars Spring Championship of Online […]

Another 13 888poker XL Inferno events were on the schedule on Wednesday with a number of top-100 players grabbing big scores. The biggest winner on the day was ‘RagingStoic‘ who took down Event #137 ($109 Eight Max) for just over $13,000. He beat out #27-ranked ‘Namlleh‘ heads-up for the win. Leandro ‘Dmilito22’ Bustillo, the #2-ranked […]

Six-figure cash prizes were on the line Tuesday as thousands of online poker enthusiasts competed in the 888 Poker XL Inferno series. The $5,200 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Super High Roller Chip-In Event #126 was won by ‘spud_gun888‘ for $186,300. ‘Kannwas‘ finished second in that tournament for $129,600 with #4-ranked player Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez of […]

The 888 Poker XL Inferno continued Monday with a number of players taking home final table cash prizes ahead of the event’s final weekend. The #2 ranked online tournament player in the world, ‘inhoo‘ of Sweden, was victorious in the $160 buy-in “Crocodile” tournament and collected $6,418 followed by PocketFives member ‘kellerassel007‘ of Germany who […]

The 888poker XL Inferno online poker tournament series continued Sunday with more than $1.2 million in cash prize money awarded to players. PocketFives member ‘juanki9605‘ of Spain (who goes by ‘B4NKR0LL3R‘ at 888 Poker) had a breakout evening by winning the $600 buy-in WHALE event for $50,947 while final-tabling two other XL Inferno Sunday events. […]

The headline for Day 7 of 888poker’s Inferno XL series belongs to ‘JDias99.’ They took down the biggest first place prize on Saturday in Event #86, the $88 buy in $88,000 guaranteed Crazy 8’s tournament, worth $16,920 up top. ‘JDias99’ defeated a field of 722 players to earn the win, one of the largest paydays […]

Day 6 of the 888poker XL Inferno series belonged to Leocir José ‘LeoJoseCarne’ Carneiro, who rose above the field to claim two victories on Friday. The first conquest for ‘LeoJoseCarne’ came in the $109 buy in Lightning Six Max event, where he won $2,589 as a result of a heads up deal made with Anton […]

Day 5 of 888poker’s XL Inferno provided 13 more stellar events that drew in some of the best and brightest in online poker. The largest win of the day belonged to ‘bananove’ for taking down the $215 Quarterback. A total of 599 entrants populated the field, including fifth place finisher Adrian ‘ADRI_ATM’ Mateos, but ‘bananove’ […]