The 888poker XL Inferno series continued Tuesday with a number of European-based PocketFives members reaching final tables and claiming their share of cash prizes. ‘V.BlomFan60‘ was awarded the largest XL Inferno score of the evening upon taking down the $160 buy-in Crocodile event for $8,969. ‘Gotyoudude‘ earned a payday of $6,721 for second place in… Continue reading XL Inferno: ‘UHYC9_888’, ‘Jab0c0’, ‘COMINGTHRU’ Win Big on Day 2

The 888poker XL Inferno online poker tournament series got underway Sunday with 16 different events awarding over $1 Million total in cash prizes. Brazilian Brazil’s Alexandre ‘Xandee1991’ Almeida had a career outing and picked up his largest ever online MTT score with a $53,015 take-home victory in the $160 buy-in Opening Event which boasted a… Continue reading XL Inferno: Alexandre Almeida Grabs Opening Day’s Biggest Score

In 2016, 888poker took the Super XL Series to new heights with bigger guarantees and a deeper schedule. Apparently, they weren’t even close to being done with the improvements. This week the company announced they have rebranded the series and once again upped the guarantees. Over the course of the next year the company will… Continue reading Revamped 888poker XL Inferno Series Features $7.5M Guaranteed

After ten days of grinding away in 55 different events, Sunday was the final – and biggest – day of the 888poker Super XL Series with 10 more events guaranteeing over $2.3 million in prize pools. The highlight of the schedule though was the $1,050 buy-in Main Event. Topping the 1,096-player field was Belarussian ‘Enigmasility‘,… Continue reading 888poker Super XL: ‘Enigmasility’ Closes with Main Event Win, $262K

As the 888poker Super XL Series heads into its final day of play, some of the bigger names in the online poker world are grabbing titles of their own. Saturday was no different as a former #1-ranked player and one of the top ranked players in Ireland each won an event. The single biggest winner… Continue reading 888poker Super XL: ’joaomathias’, ‘susanboyle1’ Win Big on Day 10

Just one day after finishing third in an 888poker Super XL Series event, the United Kingdom’s ‘doitlikewond‘ navigated his way through a 410-player field to win Efvent #44 for just over $6,500. The final three players, ‘Doitlikewond’, ‘TheMagicPike‘ and Yuriy ‘Yurec1707 ‘ Zdanovskiy agreed to a chop that saw each player walk away with at… Continue reading 888poker Super XL: ‘HonorTheGame’ and ‘doitlikewond’ Book Wins

There were a total of six events on the 888poker Super XL Series schedule on Wednesday with Russia’s ‘petrofv5501‘ earning the biggest score of the day. After outlasting 694 other players, ‘petrofv5501’ and ‘YSoSerious’ agreed to a chop leaving the title and a little bit of cash to play for. After a brief heads-up ‘petrofv5501’… Continue reading 888poker Super XL: ‘petrofv5501‘ and ‘Jaolito85’, Earn Victories

A new week meant a new game for the players in 888poker’s Super XL Series. Monday’s action shifted away from Hold’em, offering up two separate Pot Limit Omaha tournaments. The big buy-in Omaha tournament cost $109 to play and drew 164 players. The turnout resulted in a more than $24,000 prizepool, way above the $15,000… Continue reading 888poker SuperXL: ‘Xp3ctNoMerc1’ Takes No Prisoners IN PLO Event

In a day filled with big tournaments and big winners, the big headline coming out of the 888poker Super XL series on Sunday was ‘mindcrushers‘ crushing another Super XL event and became the first two-time winner of the series. Mindcrushers topped the Event #21 $75 Super Turbo Tune Up Event just days removed from a… Continue reading 888poker Super XL: ‘Mindcrushers’ Wins Second Event on Busy Online Sunday

When 888poker put the most recent Super XL Series schedule together they included a special pair of tournament on Day 2 that had a mid-range buy-in with a decent guarantee and a little bit of a gimmick. The “Twins Events” were standard MTTs but they had a bonus designed to reward any players that did… Continue reading 888poker Super XL Series: Renato Lezama Just Misses out on History

The 888poker Super XL Series got off to a flying start on Thursday with an online poker legend making his presence known and possibly the birth of another. Chris Moorman, an 888poker ambassador and online poker’s all-time leading tournament money winner, got straight to work by making the final table of the opening event.

For the next 13 days 888poker is hosting their latest installment of the Super XL Series but this one is easily the biggest and best yet – just ask online poker’s all-time leader in tournament earnings, Chris Moorman. “I’m excited that 888poker is pumping up the guarantees and putting more money into online poker,” said… Continue reading Chris Moorman Ready for 888poker Super XL Series

888poker is kicking off 2017 in grand fashion with the seventh edition of its popular Super XL Series, this time bumping up its guaranteed prize pool to $5 million, $1 million more than the previous edition of the event. The action takes place from January 19-31 and features 63 events, including Main, Mini and Turbo… Continue reading 888poker’s January Super XL Series VII Boasts $5M in Guarantees

Online poker tournament players have something to look forward to in January, as the world’s second largest online poker room, 888 Poker, announced the return of the Super XL Series.

Earlier this month, woohoo42(pictured) came away with the win in the 888 Poker Super XL Main Event, a $600 NLHE tournament with a $1 million guarantee. There was no chop and woohoo42 banked $199,000 for the win. “I’m going to continue working with my staking group,” he told PocketFives in an exclusive interview. “I will… Continue reading “I Ended Up Busting My First Bankroll to Viktor Blom”