Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 150
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 150
The field size in Super XL Event #1 has passed 1,000 players with now 1,003 in the field. The prize pool has grown to $136,600 with 363 rebuys thus far.
Russia's happyweekend is so far having a happy Thursday. He is now in the chip lead with 100,904 and was the first player in the tournament to surpass the six-digit barrier in chips.
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 125
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Netherland's [Removed:566] is one of his country's most successful online players. While in the big blind, he recently defended a min-raise from an opponent in early position while holding pocket threes and managed to win a big pot to go over 50,000 in chips after he hit a set on a ![]()
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board. His opponent rebought into the tournament after he realized his pocket jacks were no good.
Latvia's eight0808 held onto the lead heading into the second break with 73,681. Germany's Martin "IKNOWuFISH" Mulsow (second - 71,415) and Sweden's GordanBlixt (third - 70,469) were the only other players above 70,000.
The tournament has hit its second break and the field size has grown to 946 players. The prize pool is up to $115,000 and will continue to grow as late registration is open for another 85 minutes.
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 70