888poker’s Ontario-based customers thoroughly enjoyed themselves in the inaugural XL Autumn Series Ontario festival, with thousands of poker players buying into the 33 major events and 27 side events . 888poker guaranteed it would award at least C$226,300 via the 60 prize pools, but the fantastic support of the Ontario poker community meant the site paid out C$253,040 when all was said and done.
A cool C$50,000 of that sum stemmed from the C$109 buy-in Main Event. A field of 374 unique players purchased 76 re-entries between them, for an impressive turnout of 450 players. That crowd meant an overlay of C$5,000, even more value for 888poker Ontario players.
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For more information, visit the Ontario Players Homepage 888poker Ontario XL Autumn Main Event Final Table Results
*reflects a heads-up deal
All but one of the nine Main Event finalists padded their 888poker Ontario bankrolls with four-figure scores. “Spades165” busted in ninth and collected C$780 for their effort.
“Price3524” banked C$1,045 when their tournament ended in eighth place, before “halladayfan1” and “AAsFullovQQs” crashed and burned, earning prizes of C$1,405 and C$1,900, respectively.
The final five became four when “nutsonadonk” found themselves void of chips. Getting so deep in a major tournament and not winning is always disappointing, but the C$2,585 payout will have helped to numb the pain.
Heads-up was set after “JhobPoker” fell in fourth for C$3,510 and “Dustyourfish” bowed out in third, a finish good for C$4,805. The heads-up duo, now guaranteed a substantial return on their C$109 investment, paused the tournament clock, and discussed a deal. Those discussions bore fruit they heads-up duo struck a deal that saw “2sick2bluff” receive C$7,443 when the fell at the final hurdle, and “Liquornutz” secure a C$8,331 top prize, in addition to the title of champion. Other XL Autumn Highlights It was not only the C$50,000 Main Event that drew in a big crowd because the C$30,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty did too. A total […]
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