After over 10 hours of play, Canada's Mindcrushers won the $109 Event #1: $80,000 Super XL - Opening Event For $28,224. The opening event attracted 1,033 players and 535 rebuys to generate a $156,800 prize pool, or almost double the $80,000 guarantee.
Place
Player
Prize
1
Mindcrushers
$28,224
2
climbndream
$20,117
3
trojanmouse
$15,053
4
LrdofDonkTwn
$11,290
5
Luis "pegAAmigo" Dono
$7,840
6
silskyer
$6,272
7
TheMulletman
$4,704
8
liincownz
$3,136
9
Chris "888Moorman" Moorman
$1,882
Among those in the field were two 888poker Ambassadors including Germany's Natalie "888NatalieH" Hof and United Kingdom's Chris "888Moorman" Moorman.
While Hof was eliminated before the money, Moorman managed a deep run all the way to the final table where he exited the tournament in ninth place to collect $1,882 after his ace-jack proved to be no match for the pocket queens held by MindCrushers.
After Moorman was eliminated, Brazil's liincownz (eighth - $3,136), TheMulletman (seventh - $4,704) and Poland's silskyer (sixth - $6,272) were all eliminated in quick succession.
Luis "pegAAmigo" Dono was then eliminated by clmbndream in fifth place for $7,840 when his ace-nine was unable to catch up to his opponent's ace-jack. About half an hour later, Mexico's LrdofDonkTwn was then eliminated in fourth place for $11,289.60 when his ace-five proved to be no match for Mindcrushers' ace-jack.
Without too much delay, play was heads-up after trojanmouse got it all in with ace-nine and was subsequently eliminated in third place for $15,053 against clmbndream who held ace-king.
Mindcrushers entered heads-up play with an almost five to one chip advantage. however, climbndream battled back to eventually take a four to one chip advantage himself.
However, Mindcrushers was able to take the lead, this time for good when he hit a straight after going all in with queen-jack against his opponent's ace-five. Mindcrushers then eliminated climbndreams in second place for $20,117 after his queen-ten was able to edge out his opponent's ace-jack.
Event #1: $80,000 Super XL - Opening Event Winning Hand
Mindcrushers jammed all in preflop with and clmbndream called with .
Clmbndream was ahead until the river after the appeared on the flop and the appeared on the turn. However, the paired up Mindcrushers hand to give him the title of the first event of Event #1: $80,000 Super XL - Opening Event.
Meanwhile, climbndream collected the runner-up prize of $20,117.44.
888poker Ambassador Chris "888Moorman" Moorman was just eliminated after he jammed for 1,143,971 from late position with . Mindcrushers was once again holding pocket queens and eliminated Moorman in ninth place for $1,881.60 after the board ran out .
Shortly afterwards, liincownz was eliminated in eighth place for $3,316. All remaining players are guaranteed at least $4,704.
888poker Ambassador Chris "888Moorman" Moorman had his stack up to around 600,000 before more than doubling that up in a recent hand.
The hand began with "Mindcrushers" raising preflop to 35,765 from early position and getting a call from spiffytech the buttom and Moorman from the big blind.
After Moorman checked, Mindcrushers then led out with a bet of 55,876 on a flop. Spiffytech folded and Moorman called.
Moorman checked once again and subsequently called a bet from his opponent of 136,322 after the appeared on the turn. The completed the board and Moorman checked once again before his opponent shoved for 700,000, which more than Moorman's remaining stack of 371,725.
Moorman let time run down before the time bank kicked in. He eventually called and hauled in a huge pot of 1,257,141 after he turned over for two pair, which was ahead of his opponent's pocket queens.
It took three hands of hand-for-hand before the bubble broke. Germany's ooo3r1Cooo was sitting out and was down to under a blind in the big blind.
Austria's pads1161v2.0 raised from early position to 14,500 before calling a three-bet from Sweden's Madeon1994 of 35,000 from late position.
Pads1161v2.0 then shoved all in for 128,297 on a board and Madeon1994 had a few chips less called. Pads1161v2.0 was behind holding and his opponent holding . However, his hand turned around after the hit the turn and shipped a big pot after the completed the board.
Madeon1994 was also eliminated during this hand and collected $266.56 for finishing in 135th place.
888poker Ambassador Natalie "888NatalieH" Hof was just eliminated in 157th place. Her stack was down to slightly more than four big blinds when she went all in from late position with . Trusjustus raised her bet to 27,772 from the small blind with and then called an all-in shove of 86,194 by djknockout from the big blind with .
Hof appeared for awhile to be set for a much-needed triple-up after the appeared on the flop and the appeared on the turn. However, she was eliminated after the completed the board on the river, while djknockout doubled up to more than 200,000.
Chris "888Moorman" Moorman is now the last 888poker Ambassador left in the field with a stack of 192,364.
Welcome to the $109 Event #1: $80,000 Super XL Opening Event taking place online at 888poker at 7 p.m. GMT. 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.
Event #1 is one of three kicking off the poker festival today, along with a Mini and Turbo version, combining for $115,000 in guaranteed prize pools.
Event
Time (GMT)
Buy-in
Guarantee
Event #1: $80,000 Super XL – Opening Event
7:00 p.m.
$109
$80,000
Event #2: $15,000 Super XL – Mini Opening Event
7:01 p.m.
$12
$15,000
Event #3: $20,000 Super XL – Turbo Opening Event
9:00 p.m.
$55
$20,000
Players begin Event #1: $80,000 Super XL – Opening Event with 15,000 opening chips and blinds increasing every 15 minutes. Players will be able to rebuy for 15,000 additional chips for $109 during the 200-minute late registration period provided that they lose all their chips.
PokerNews will provide you with live updates so you can keep track of who's winning and who's losing if you're not able to follow along with the action in the 888poker client. We'll bring you all the big hands, all the bad beats and all the drama of this phenomenal event!
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