The biggest online poker festival ever to take place in the long history of 888poker is nearly two weeks through its schedule with the Millions Superstorm guaranteeing at more than $8 million across 480 tournaments from Sept. 10 to Oct. 11.
The highlight of the festival is the two-day $320 888Millions Superstorm Main Event boasting a huge $1 million guarantee. Opening flights have already begun for this event and there are plenty of chances every day for you to earn a ticket to this event for free.
United Arab Emirates' "nagidh" has the best single result thus far in the festival after shipping the 888Millions High Roller for a cool $25,000 on Tuesday night.
This player unseeded Russia's Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Mamonov, who now has the second-best single result this festival after shipping the 888Millions High Roller for a cool $23,000 last week. Mamonov is a well-known online tournament beast with nearly $9 million in online earnings as tracked at PocketFives, where is he currently residing in 14th place in the Worldwide Rankings.
Check below for a complete overview of the past few days of the Millions Superstorm at 888poker.
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Hundreds of events have already taken place during the first couple of weeks of the Millions Superstorm at 888poker.
While "nagidh" managed to notch the biggest cash thus far this festival, many others scored big the past two days including Michael "HyperX." Skeldon shipping the 888Millions $88 PKO 8-Max - $10,000 GTD for more than $2,800 including bounties.
Check below for a complete overview of the past few days of the Millions Superstorm at 888poker.
Opening flights for the Superstorm Main Event are underway with thus far 1,075 entrants (including 125 inflight re-entries) already hopping into the action in hopes for a lion's share of the at least $1 million guaranteed in the prize pool.
A total of 154 players and counting have thus far virtually bagged a stack with many more to come. Brazil's "vitola99" has kept the chip lead for well more than a week after growing his 10,000 opening chip stack into a monster stack of 227,527 in chips.
There was just one change in the top 10 players on the leaderboard since Monday in the top ten with Canada's "xFink_Ploydx" qualifying for Day 2 on Monday with a stack of 149,772. This knocked Russia's "violator888" (146,207) out of the top ten.
Place
Player
Country
Chips
1
vitola99
Brazil
227,527
2
VadimKalanta
Kazakhstan
194,118
3
gremistaAAKs
Brazil
187,700
4
baurjant
Kazakhstan
184,589
5
Belz3bu7
Romania
177,843
6
Kzzzon
Sweden
164,971
7
PlumpySouyon
Malta
162,319
8
InfoDealer
Lithuania
151,718
9
xFink_Ploydx
Canada
149,772
10
mikinads
Russia
149,719
The Main Event provides plenty of action with 20-minute blind levels on Day 1. Opening flights end the sooner of 12 blind levels in the books or the field trimmed down to 14 percent of its starting size.
The next opening flight takes place on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. GMT / 3 p.m. EDT. There are plenty of satellites for players to qualify for pennies on the dollars along with many paths for players to get their tickets for free.
Surviving players will return for one final day of play on Sunday, Oct. 11 when all of the action will be reported under the watchful eye of the PokerNews Live Reporting team.
