888poker ‘s XL Autumn Series has drawn to a close, with the $1050 Main Event attracting a thoroughly respectable 948 runners.
An additional 81 rebuys took the prize pool just over the million-dollar guarantee to $1,029,000 —no small achievement for such an ambitious tournament.
Indeed, the guarantee was twice the size of the usual Main Events of an XL series , a laudable aspiration. Then to meet that target is something 888 can be genuinely proud of.
After multiple Day 1 flights, Day 2 of the tournament lasted a little over five hours and saw player “23NoraB” take first place, and a tidy $185,200 in prize money .
This ambition was reflected throughout the series: $2 million in guarantees across 44 events made this installment the largest XL series for three years, and twice the size of its most recent predecessor back in June .
The operator heralded the overall success of the series, which paid out $2.3 million in total prize money .
Not all events were so well supported as the Main. The series got off to a shaky start: for example, the $100,000 opening event fell short . The $55 tournament attracted 1468 runners; while an unknown number of reentries will have bolstered total entry fees collected, it failed to hit its six-figure target.
A few alarm bells must have been sounding after the inauspicious start—that huge guarantee for the Main Event must have weighed heavy—nevertheless, the tournaments immediately following the opener proved to be very popular, with the next five events clearing their guarantees with relative ease . 888 Keeps on Keeping on
As the series rolled on, a few more overlay spots appeared, but most continued to make their guarantees with impressive ease. There were some off days: three on Tuesday, October 19, all missed, so the operator may have misjudged mid-week interest.There were a couple of higher profile misses: The big mid-series $200K Tune Up failed to surpass its ambitious $200k guarantee, for example. Smaller buy-in events mostly did very well, like the $16.50 Mini Tune Up going 22% over its $20k guarantee. Many seemed to sail through their promised […]
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