XL Winter Series Goes Big for 888poker – 888poker cracks its $2 million plus guarantee with a big online series to start 2024. Going into XL Winter 2024 on 888poker the operator had $2.081 million guaranteed across the series. Running from Jan 14 – Jan 30, and with the final week playing out alongside the 888poker LIVE Madrid festival, there were 35 featured games, as well as numerous side events, to whet the appetite of online poker fans.
Like most online series on 888poker, XL Winter featured a range of buy-ins that likely appealed to a wide swath of its core players. With Mini, Regular, and High Roller versions of many events, as well as generous satellites into the bigger games, parts of the eventual $2,177,906 in total prizes were available to bankrolls of all sizes.
Not all the games hit the guarantee for the series, despite the overall win. The biggest game of them all, however, was the $1 million guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event as it was one of the games on the plus side of the leger. With 1,219 entries, the big game just pushed over the pre-game promise with prizes of $1,033,712.
While that game made up nearly half the guarantees, there were other standout performers as well. A $320 PKO game on Jan 25 was the best of the bunch with 44% extra in the prize pool above the $20k guarantee and four other games had prize pools more than 20% above their guarantees. 2024 XL Winter Series Summary
Events: Dates: Buy-In Range: Total Guaranteed: Total Prizes Awarded: 35 Jan 14 – Jan 30 $11 – $888 $2,081,000 $2,177,906 Six-Figure Prize Pools and More
In a recent sit-down with Amit Berkovich , the VP Head of Poker at 888 & William Hill expressed a lot of positivity about the online poker world going forward. After acknowledging that there is a lot of gossip about poker becoming less relevant and “that the younger generation play less and that the industry is in decline” he went on to point out that “poker is here to stay” in general […]
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