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The recent poker game 888poker XL Winter series got its winner, who takes down a $200,000 Mystery Bounty event. TheMoeQasem” of the United Arab Emirates. The previous week looked like there would be chances of overlay, but thankfully 1,380 entrants came about, resulting in a guaranteed prize pool of $207,000.
Among this prize pool, TheMoeQasem managed to get the biggest share of $20,585. Half of the jackpot prize ($207,000) was categorized into the main prize pool, and the remaining half was kept in a sealed envelope to award as mystery bounties.
The lucky players who played well and stood to Day 2 got a chance to uncover one of the envelopes containing the prize in case the player succeeded in eliminating their opponent from the field. Each mystery bounty was of a minimum of $200 and a jackpot worth $20,000 for the lucky winner. Let us look at the number of prizes won and the respective bounty value.
|
Bounty value |
No. of prizes |
|
$20,000 |
1 |
|
$6,000 |
2 |
|
$2,000 |
6 |
|
$600 |
20 |
|
$200 |
45 |
| $216 |
162 |
According to the latest poker news, Feldegani.ps from Brazil received one of the biggest bounties, i.e., $6,000, and walked away with $6,432 after collecting $321 from the prize pool. Subsequently, Brazil’s perrivini also got $6,432 bounties, taking the 5th position. But, the big win $20,000 mystery bounty, was grabbed by 9salute46 from Ireland with a total prize of $20,553, only a few less than the champion.
The results for the 200,000 XL Winter series are as shown:
|
Position |
Player | Countries | Bounties | Prize |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
TheMoeQasem | UAE | $3,112 | $17,473 | $20,585 |
|
2 |
Sonde | Belarus | $3,064 | $12,733 | $15,797 |
|
3 |
Nathjb | United Kingdom | $2,128 | $9,341 | $11,469 |
|
4 |
magoooo12 |
Ireland | $1,248 | $6,869 |
$8,117 |
|
5 |
perrivini |
Brazil | $6,432 | $5,082 |
$11,514 |
|
6 |
NgoloforGB |
Malta | $416 | $3,766 |
$4,182 |
|
7 |
jsj588 | Ukraine | $1,064 | $2,803 |
$3,867 |
|
8 |
lelecones7 | Brazil | $1,048 | $2,086 |
$3,134 |
|
9 |
JonEBrad | United Kingdom | $1,712 | $1,583 |
$3,295 |
