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Message: [QUOTE="888Rep, post: 4116607, member: 122549"] [COLOR=#000000]Hello Everyone,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 9 of the 888poker XL Blizzard saw “LucySagara70” knock out the competition to win the Netherlands’ second title and “grigorq77” take down the Mini Knockout.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Read about it and more in 888poker’s recap for the 9th day of the XL Blizzard (attached).[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]We’ll be bringing you daily updates of the XL Blizzard, so be sure to check back every day.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Saturday’s Tournament Schedule[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]If 6-Max is your thing, you’re going to love what’s coming up on Saturday. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]At 19:00, both the $160 buy-in Event #28: $50,000 6-Max and $30 buy-in Event #29: $15,000 Mini 6-Max will kick off.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Two hours later at 21:00, the $55 buy-in Event #30: $10,000 Late 6-Max will get underway.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]It’s sure to be a day filled with fast action that you won’t to miss. Satellites are running now.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 9 of the 888poker XL Blizzard saw “LucySagara70” knock out the competition to win the[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Netherlands’ second title and “grigorq77” take down the Mini Knockout.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]XL Blizzard Day 9: “LucySagara70” Claims 2nd Title for the Netherlands, “grigorq77” Wins[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Mini Knockout[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 9 of XL Blizzard, an 11-day series that runs through this Sunday, offered up a trio of events.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]That means just seven events from the 34-tournament schedule remain including tomorrow’s[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]$160 buy-in Event #28: $50,000 6-Max and Sunday’s $1,050 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Main[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Event.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]For the XL Blizzard we offered new promotions such as awarding big cash prizes to anyone who[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]wins multiple events ($1,000,000 if you can win five of them), a “Bubble of Bubbles”[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]tournament (gain entry if/when you bubble a tournament), and the return of the Champion of[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Champions event. Thus far, no one has been able to win multiple tournaments.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The Champion of Champions returns for the XL Blizzard series and one lucky 888poker player[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]will win a $12,000 WSOP Vegas package. Each time you play in an XL Blizzard event, you earn[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]leaderboard points. The top 50 players on the leaderboard receive a ticket to the Champion of[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Champions tournament to be held at 18:00 GMT on January 30.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Here’s a look at the current leaderboard:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Also, here’s a quick recap of what’s happened in the XL Blizzard thus far:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 1 – The Netherlands’ Jans “Graftekkel” Arends won the Opening Event for more than[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]$17K. “bygavuga” and “scellone94” capture titles.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 2 – “Jamasutra” and “Pasha813” notch “Twin Wins” in Events #4 & #5 Respectively.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 3 – Norway’s “Rekrutt1” won Event #6: Crazy 8 for more than $10K; former XL Eclipse[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]winners “NeveGiveUp” and “msksevart” both claimed XL Blizzard titles.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 4 – In Event #9: $120,000 Mega Deep, “23NoraB” found redemption from his second-place[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]XL Inferno Mega Deep finish. Meanwhile, three 888poker Ambassadors made deep runs in the[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Whale and Niklas “tutten7” Åstedt came up short of winning a XL Blizzard not once but twice.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 5 – “DeltaSpider” becomes fourth Russian to win XL Blizzard title, “yarik1903” nabs[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Ukraine’s second.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 6 – “Tonkaaaa” final tables $250K High Roller but “SteveyBG” claims title; big day for[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]“OINKOinkOink”.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 7 – “CR1TCHZ” captured Austria’s second title of the series. Malta’s “PazzoRJ” and the[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]UK’s “JohnJones34” both won titles.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Day 8 – Kuwait’s “sayqmyqname” wins Quarterback, “bujalabujala” scores for Lithuania, and[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Super XL Champ “petrofv5501” books a win.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Get all the details on the XL Blizzard here.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]“LucySagara70” Knocks Out Competition for Netherlands’ 2nd Title[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The highlight tournament of the day was the $150 buy-in Event #25: $25,000 Knockout, which[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]easily crushed its guarantee by attracting 245 players. That created a $35,045 total prize pool that[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]was spilt into $25K going to the regular pool and $10,045 into the bounty pool.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Canada’s “bluffing420s” bubbled in 37th place, meaning he earned a seat into the “Bubble of[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Bubbles” tournament. He also claimed $123 in bounties. Among those to cash were “timtimmis”[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000](27th for $212.50 and $164 in bounties), XL Blizzard Event #8 champ “msksevart” (23rd for[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]$212.50 and $164 in bounties), “RakDoll” (11th for $400 and $164 in bounties), Fabrizio[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]“DrMiKee” Gonzalez (7th for $875and $492 in bounties), and “HotSauce86” (4th for $2,125 and[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]$369 in bounties).[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]After Sweden’s Jerry “Perrymejsen” Ödeen, who was April’s biggest Sunday online winner on[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]888poker, bowed out in third place for $2,825 and $369 in bounties, the title came down to the[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]UK’s “Patsharpe” and the Netherlands’ “LucySagara70.” After 9 hours and 42 minutes in the[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]tournament, the Dutchie claimed victory for $5,112.50 and $410 in bounties (Jans “Graftekkel”[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Arends, who won the Opening Event for more than $17K, is the only other player from the[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Netherlands to win a XL Blizzard title thus far). The Brit took home $3,750 and $348.50 in[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]bounties to help soothe the pain.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]If you recall, “LucySagara70” finished fifth in the XL Eclipse Opening Event for $16,387.50[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]back in September.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]“grigorq77” a Mini Bounty Hunter[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The $35 buy-in Event #26: $10,000 Mini Knockout drew 731 entries, which more than doubled[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]the advertised guarantee by creating a $23,757.50 prize pool. Of that, $18,275 went into the[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]regular prize pool and $5,482.50 into the bounty prize pool.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The top 99 players got paid, which meant 100th[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]-place finisher “BernardoDG” left with $15 in[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]bounties and a seat into the “Bubble of Bubbles” tournament. Among those to cash were[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]“dappaHD” (42nd for $69.44 and $56.25 in bounties), “ginus09” (23rd for $91.37 and $22.50 in[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]bounties), XL Blizzard Event #20 champ “JohnJones34” (9th for $237.57 and $37.50 in[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]bounties), XL Eclipse “vampa500” (6th for $767.55 and $37.50 in bounties), and “SollenAA” (3rd[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]for $1,809.22 and $90 in bounties).[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]After 9 hours and 9 minutes, the final two players struck a deal. “SeauZezinho23” ended up[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]finishing in second place for $2,858.07 and $105 in bounties, while “grigorq77” claimed the title,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]a $2,889.84 prize, and $97.50 in bounties. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Saturday’s Tournament Schedule[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]If 6-Max is your thing, you’re going to love what’s coming up on Saturday. At 19:00, both th[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]$160 buy-in Event #28: $50,000 6-Max and $30 buy-in Event #29: $15,000 Mini 6-Max will[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]kick off.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Two hours later at 21:00, the $55 buy-in Event #30: $10,000 Late 6-Max will get underway. It’s[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]sure to be a day filled with fast action that you won’t to miss. Satellites are running now.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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