$250 Main Event ($500,000 GTD) Day 2 | 2022 888poker XL Spring Series

06-06-2022 12:52 UTC-12

"Instinctym" Leads Day 3 with More than 3.7 Million

Lyle Bateman

The Day 3 field for the $500,000 Main Event is now set with the final table of nine ready to go on Tuesday. The action on the final day gets going at 15:00 ET and the player with the best chance at the more than $70,000 top prize is chip leader "Instinctym" from Moldova. They built a stack of 3,723,813 after playing through a Day 1 field of 2,173 entries, and 294 returning Day 2 players.

In the end, they were playing for just a bit more than the $500,000 guarantee with $510,655 in total prizes. The most recent eliminations earned more than $5,000, but with $70,521 up top, the remaining players still have a shot at big money.

Among the deep runs today was 888poker streamer Jordan "BanfieldJ" Banfield. The Canadian made Day 2 and battled up until the final three tables, but ultimately fell in 27th place for $1,838.

Final Table for $500,000 Main Event

Place	Player	Country	Chips
1	Instinctym	Moldova	3,723,813
2	iNFOsHOVE	Sweden	3,101,020
3	Why_a_king	Sweden	2,962,583
4	KostenBerguz	Ukraine	2,913,823
5	makichinho	Belarus	1,989,392
6	overbet13	Malta	1,649,188
7	youler	United Kingdom	1,163,768
8	Tcheleee	Brazil	1,125,840
9	alanchi	Montenegro	1,100,573

The final table of the 2022 888poker XL Spring Series $500,000 Main Event starts at 15:00 ET Tuesday, but PokerNews' coverage will be delayed with the 888pokerTV stream which will have cards-up coverage starting around 16:00.

06-06-2022 12:33 UTC-12

Day 3 Field is Set

Lyle Bateman

Level 38, Blinds: 60,000/120,000 (15,000)

"iNFOsHOVE" took down a huge pot late in the day for more than 3 million chips after their king-queen got there against ace-king for "Why_a_king". "what1sl0v3" was in with a short stack and nine-ten, dropping in 11th place.

A couple of hands later, "Instinctym" took the lead when they got "viinig" all-in before the flop with versus and held to set the final table of nine players.

Play has now paused and a short recap of the day will be published soon.

Player	Chips	Progress
Instinctym	3,723,813	1,677,111
iNFOsHOVE	3,101,020
Why_a_king	2,962,583	786,801
KostenBerguz	2,913,823	-241,709
makichinho	1,989,392	332,500
overbet13	1,649,188	-537,906
youler	1,163,768
Tcheleee	1,125,840	-801,607
alanchi	1,100,573
viinig	Busted
what1sl0v3	Busted

06-06-2022 12:16 UTC-12

"Instinctym" Busts "Omnipotent48"

Lyle Bateman

Level 37, Blinds: 50,000/100,000 (12,500)

"Instinctym" took down "Omnipotent48" with the better ace after "Instinctym" raised the small blind, then called off with more when "Omnipotent48" shoved the big blind.

"Omnipotent48":
"Instinctym":

"Instinctym" had the best ace from the start and held for the win to bring it down to 11 players left.

Player	Chips	Progress
Instinctym	2,046,702	1,502,603
Omnipotent48	Busted

06-06-2022 11:21 UTC-12

"fanatmalini" Takes a Stack

Lyle Bateman

Level 33, Blinds: 20,000/40,000 (5,000)

"fanatmalini" got there for a million plus stack after raising, then calling off a shove from "Grizzla83".

"Grizzla83":
"fanatmalini":

"fanatmalini" flopped it on and held for the win. They are now down to 22 players left.

Player	Chips	Progress
fanatmalini	1,166,369	1,166,369
Coss112	Busted
Grizzla83	Busted

06-06-2022 10:44 UTC-12

"BalticMouse" Crushes "mylly8"

Lyle Bateman

Level 30, Blinds: 10,000/20,000 (2,500)

They are down to 43 players remaining now. One of the recent busts was "mylly8", who was briefly chip leader earlier and the first player with over one million chips. Since then it's been downhill chip-wise, with most of the final damage happening with a dominated ace against "BalticMouse".

Player	Chips	Progress
BalticMouse	889,452
mylly8	Busted

06-06-2022 10:19 UTC-12

"mylly8" Cracks Milly

Lyle Bateman

Level 28, Blinds: 6,000/12,000 (1,500)

"mylly8" is the first player with more than 1 million chips after getting the best of a massive cooler that saw their go up against big slick for a pot of almost 500,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
mylly8	1,061,350	374,374
brazilHunter	Busted

06-06-2022 09:54 UTC-12

"magoooo12" Catches One

Lyle Bateman

Level 27, Blinds: 5,000/10,000 (1,250)

"magoooo12" jumped up to more than 400,000 chips with a hand where they caught "bagedag" with medium suited connectors, and their ace-jack got there for a nice increase.

Player	Chips	Progress
magoooo12	413,770	413,770
bagedag	Busted

06-06-2022 09:12 UTC-12

"SpielerKind" Uses Stack

Lyle Bateman

Level 23, Blinds: 2,500/5,000 (625)

"SpielerKind" raised under the gun to 11,000 and "Sprase1999" called from the big blind. "Sprase1999" check-called for 7,500 on the flop, and again for 20,000 on the turn.

"Sprase1999" checked again on the river, then tank-folded to a covering over-pot bet of 127,687.

Player	Chips	Progress
SpielerKind	490,546	71,000
Sprase1999	79,176	79,176

06-06-2022 06:44 UTC-12

"Instinctym" Leads into Day 2 of the $500,000 Guaranteed XL Spring Series Main Event

Lyle Bateman

Day 2 of the 2022 888poker XL Spring Series $500,000 Guaranteed Main Event is imminent, and with just over an hour to go till cards go in the air, "Instinctym" is leading the way into the second day of play. They are the only player with more than 300,000 chips, but there are three other players with 200,000 or more.

There is still one more Day 1 starting flight in action leading up to the start of Day 2 but at the moment there are 344 players in Day 2 out of 1,978 total entries in the Day 1s so far. More detailed prize pool information will be up when Day 2 gets going, but at the moment, there is just under $70,000 for the winner of the Main Event.

Top Ten Chips for Day 2 of the $500,000 Guaranteed XL Spring Series Main Event

1	Instinctym	Montenegro	351,566
2	jessecesar	Brazil	261,138
3	SpielerKind	Ukraine	253,047
4	kanabal18	United Kingdom	220,496
5	Makis321	Brazil	177,329
6	6nomad2000	Republic of Belarus	174,088
7	what1sl0v3	Brazil	172,352
8	VelascoNoBad	Brazil	167,551
9	universal161	Romania	167,133
10	Ramses9977	Ukraine	166,813

Most of the top prize money will be awarded at the end of Day 3. Today's Day 2 will end when they play down to a final table of nine, and those nine players will return Tuesday, June 7 for the streamed final table. PokerNews will also be covering the final table of the Main Event, so follow along here for all the action through to a winner.