Event #28 $350,000 Guarantee - High Roller
Day 1 Started
Event #28 $350,000 Guarantee - High Roller
Day 1 Started
The Super XL tournaments have so far attracted thousands of players to 888poker, and tonight one of the most enticing and action-packed events of the series will be crowning a champion. The $2,100 High Roller with $350,000 guaranteed will be kicking off in just about 30 minutes, and a number of the most notable online players of the world are expected to make an appearance in this exciting tournament.
The Super XL Series features 63 action-packed events from Jan. 19 to 31 with more than $5 million in guaranteed prize pools. The schedule should appeal to players of many tastes with a Mini, Turbo and Main version available for most of the tournaments. The $2,100 High Roller is just one of 4 Super XL events taking place today, combining for more than half a million dollars in guaranteed prize pools.
Event | Time (GMT) | Buy-in | Guarantee |
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Event #28: $350,000 Super XL – High Roller | 7:00 p.m. | $2,100 | $350,000 |
Event #29: $100,000 Super XL – Mini High Roller | 7:01 p.m. | $215 | $100,000 |
Event #30: $40,000 Super XL – Tuesday Challenge | 7:35 p.m. | $109 | $40,000 |
Event #31: $50,000 Super XL – Turbo High Roller | 9:00 p.m. | $160 | $50,000 |
Event #28: $350,000 Super XL - High Roller is a deep-stacked affair with players starting off with 20,000 chips and blinds increasing every 20 minutes. So far 20 players have registered for the event, but with a late registration period of 4.5 hours, more players will join in on the action eventually.
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Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 5
Play just kicked off in the 888poker client with a starting field of 56 players, but with plenty more players are expected to register in the upcoming hours. Late registration will not end for another 4.5 hours of play, so the final tally will certainly be much higher.
With a buy-in of $2,100, a lot of the heavy hitters of online tournament poker are here tonight. Russian Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov has found his way to the tables early on, so has England's Christopher "NigDawg" Brammer. Swedish players Niklas "tutten7" Åstedt and Andreas "r4ndomr4gs" Berggren is also going at it, while Canadian Shyam "sdot111" Srinivasan is looking to add another solid score to his total tally of more than $9 million in online cashes.
Finally Chilean Nicolas "PKaiser" Fierro registered just a few minutes in, so the action is certainly heating up in this Event #28 $350,000 Guarantee - High Roller
Player | Chips | Progress |
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veeea | 20,000 | 20,000 |
NigDawg | 20,000 | 20,000 |
tutten7 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
sdot111
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
PKaiser | 20,000 | 20,000 |
r4ndomr4gs | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 10
While only a few dozens of players were seated by 7. p.m. when the event kicked off, the virtual cashier has experienced plenty of action these last 40 minutes. 131 players have so far paid the $2,100 buy-in, and players are still registering furiously.
The latest additions to this tournament are Roman "Romeopro33" Romanovskyi, Fabrizio "DrMiKee" Gonzalez and Aleks "alexdimitrov" Dimitrov.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Romeopro33 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
alexdimitrov
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 15
Canada's Shyam "sdot111" Srinivasan has taken an early lead in this $2,100 Super XL Series High Roller by knocking out "gordijuuuuu" from the United Kingdom. Srinavasan's two pairs of aces and eights were enough to secure the early double for the world's 65th ranked online player.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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sdot111
|
39,146 | 19,146 |
Preflop Mexico's "SteveyBG" made it 450 to go, and only Nicolas "PKaiser" Fierro in the cutoff and "myhometown" in the big blind paid the price. The Flop came down , and SteveyBG followed up with a bet of 645. Only Fierro called.
The Turn prompted yet another bet from SteveyBG, this time a more healthy 1,720 chips. PKaiser called once again.
The completed the board, and with 6,290 in the middle, SteveyBG opted for a third bullet of 3,885. That was enough to take down the pot, and leave Fierro with 12,304 chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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PKaiser | 12,304 | -7,696 |