Welcome to the $160 XL Inferno Opening Event taking place online at 888poker at 7 p.m. GMT. Players begin Event #7: $160 XL Inferno Opening Event with 15,000 opening chips and blinds increasing every 20 minutes. Players will be able to rebuy for 15,000 additional chips for $160 during the 240-minute late registration period provided that they lose all their chips.
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Brammer just got his remaining stack in the middle with against the pocket queens of "SuprNintend0". The board came and the tournament was finished for Brammer.
The Brittish player "wiisssppppaa" just shipped his last ten big blinds in with ace-nine, but he lost the coinflip of the pocket eights of "bluecheek" to finish in seventh place.
After more than thirtheen hours of play, Event #7 - $160 XL Inferno Opening Event finally crowned a winner. It was "Xandee1991" from Brazil who claimed the victory and the first prize of $53,014.50 after beating "kevlar1991" in the deciding heads-up.
The event, with a buy-in of $160, saw 1,447 players register and those players made 632 rebuys to get a total amount of 2,079 players. They created a total prize pool of $311,850 with 162 places paid. It took a while to get to the money but in the end, it was "DrMiKee" who was the last player finishing empty-handed.
After making the money it took a long time before the tournament was down to the last nine. After eleven hours the remaining nine players made the final table and went on to play for a $53,014.50 first prize. For "janwest030" (ninth - $3,367.98), "mario73m" (eight - $6,081.07) and "wiissspppaa" (seventh - $9,199.57) it wasn't a big success on the final table, because they left quiet early.
Not much later, Phil "PRoyal888“ Mighall finished in sixth place for $12,318.07 after losing all his chips with king-nine. He was followed to the rail by "lasochobi" (fifth - $15,436.57) and "bluecheek" (fourth - $21,205.80) who both won some nice money. From that moment on, it was Brazilian "Xandee1991" dominating the tournament.
He took a commanding chip lead against his two opponents and won almost every pot he played. In the end, it was "kevlar1991" who busted "MommyTosier" to get heads-up with the Brazilian. "kevlar1991" had to fight against the big time chip leader and the first time the money went it, the tournament was ended. "Xandee1991" had against and flopped a set of fives on a -flop. The turn sealed the deal and the on the river couldn't change anything.
"kevlar1991" had to settle for second place, while "Xandee1991" could celebrate his victory after thirteen hours of play!