The biggest online poker festival ever to take place in the long history of 888poker with the Millions Superstorm guaranteeing at more than $8 million across 480 tournaments from Sept. 10 to Oct. 11 has been a huge success thus far with less than one week remaining.
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.
Argentina's "SuperBellota" won the biggest prize on Wednesday after shipping the 888Millions $109 PKO 9-Max - $50,000 GTD for $5,544 + $5,021 in bounties.
On Thursday, United Kingdom's "Gravemaker86" was the star of the show after being the last player standing in the 888Millions $160 PKO 8-Max - $50,000 GTD for $5,295 + $4,939 in bounties.
Meanwhile, United Arab Emirates' "nagidh" remains the biggest winner of the festival thus far after they shipped the 888Millions High Roller for a cool $25,000. This will certainly change on Sunday when the $1 million guaranteed Main Event will play down to a winner.
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There were many other players to win big the past two days in addition to "SuperBellota" and "Gravemaker86" including Mario "THEKIDM8" Sanchez, Nicolae "Ph4N888" Bogdan, and Aaron "Youremagical" Gustavson.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's "proJJkeke" amazingly found the winner's circle in two separate tournaments on Thursday.
Read on to learn about all the players that won 888Millions Superstorm events at 888poker on Wednesday and Thursday.
Opening flights for the Superstorm Main Event are underway with thus far 2,286 entrants (including 228 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 353 players and counting have thus far virtually bagged a stack with many more to come. Sweden's "AsaNisse4" amassed a stack of 229,262 last weekend and thus far is the chip leader entering Day 2.
The top ten on the leaderboard remained unchanged from the past two days. Here is a look:
Place
Player
Country
Chips
1
AsaNisse4
Sweden
229,262
2
vitola99
Brazil
227,527
3
VadimKalanta
Kazakhstan
194,118
4
gremistaAAKs
Brazil
187,700
5
baurjant
Kazakhstan
184,589
6
Belz3bu7
Romania
177,843
7
Maedhros11
Russia
165,155
8
Kzzzon
Sweden
164,971
9
PlumpySouyon
Malta
162,319
10
bigMEway
Ireland
161,630
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, Oct. 7 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.
