After more than 11 hours of play, Event #36 - $2,100 XL Inferno High Roller finally crowned a winner. Anton "anteen" Bertilsson from claimed the victory and the first prize of after beating "Kannwas" in the deciding heads-up.
This event, with a buy-in of $2,100, saw 222 players register and those players made 64 rebuys to get a total amount of 286 players. They created a total prize pool of $572,000 with 36 places paid. It took a while to get to the money but in the end, "GramNaKartke" was the last player finishing empty-handed. He lost a huge pot with king-queen against pocket aces, with lots of short stacks still in the tournament.
After the players reached the money, it went pretty quickly to a final table. On the bubble of the final table, there was a huge 3-way all-in where "Kannwas" busted "morewater" and "sweetness158" with his pocket nines against ace-king and pocket sevens. Just eight players went to the final table, where "cocadas" and "peterpan_33." busted within ten minutes.
When play reached the final six, players looking scared to bust and it took a while before another player was sent to the rail. After quite some time, it was "grandepike" who lost all of his chips with ace-six against the king-queen of "anteen". Short after, "Sr.Penes" (fifth, $33,176) and "diosmono69" (fourth, $48,620) busted to get the tournament three-handed.
Only a few hands later, they could start the heads-up after "R1valdo10" lost a crucial coin flip with ace-king against the pocket jacks of Bertilsson. The Swedish started the battle for victory against "Kannwas" with a 2:1-advantage, but his opponent got back to even stacks pretty quickly.
"Kannwas" dominated for an hour but in the end, the Swedish took back control. He doubled with top pair against a straight draw and finished the job with pocket nines against ten-seven to secure himself of the first prize of $116,974.
From the button, "sweetness158" moved all-in for his last 105,000 chips. In the small blind, "Kannwas" made the call. Big blind "morewater" then went all-in for 800,000 and a snapcall from "Kannwas"!
sweetness158:
Kannwas:
morewater:
The board came which means there was a final table with just eight players.
The tournament has reached the final two tables and it's "diosmono69" who has the chip lead with 691,464 chips. Can he hold on to it when they will reach the final table?
"pkrgmblraakk" opened to 5,625 and saw the blinds calling his raise. The flop came and only big blind "MechaREcorta" gave him action. After he made a bet of 13,250, the big blind raised to 40,081 and "pkrgmblraakk" made the call.
The turn didn't stop the action, because "MechaREcorta" shipped his last 103,513 chips. "pkrgmblraakk" called all-in for 102,704 and saw his aces weren't good against . The river didn't give him the help he needed and he went out.
Scott Margereson, playing under his nickname "AggroSantos", has had a great first two hours. He's now playing 44,898 chips which mean he has more than double starting stack.
Welcome to the Event #36 - $2,100 XL Inferno High Roller taking place online at 888poker at 8 p.m. GMT. Players begin Event #36 - $2,100 XL Inferno High Roller with 20,000 opening chips and blinds increasing every 20 minutes. Players will be able to rebuy for 20,000 additional chips for $2,100 during the 270-minute late registration period provided that they lose all their chips.
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