888poker XL Eclipse Day 10: 'Chip-In' Tournaments Raise $40,000 for REG

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Sep 20, 2017 4 min read Last updated May 13, 2018

• Day 4: 'RendOss' Wins the $50,000 8-Max
• Day 5: 'Inho' Wins $100,000 Quarterback
• Day 6: Niklas Astedt Runner-Up in $30,000 Knockout
• Day 7: Chris Moorman Finishes Third in $50K Octopus
• Day 8: Another Third Place For Chris Moorman
• Day 9: 'Chip In' Events to Raise Money for REG

Day 10 of the 888poker XL Eclipse Series was a special one. The poker room hosted three 'Chip-In' tournaments which donated all fees to Raising for Effective Giving (REG). In all, those three tournaments raised more than $40,000 toward REG’s Against Malaria Foundation. The tournaments involved were Super High Roller tournament with a $5,200 buy-in, as well as $215 Mini and $55 Turbo versions.

Most of the attention went to the XL Eclipse #126 - $5,200 XL Eclipse Super High Roller Chip In, where the high rollers competed for a huge prize pool. Let's take a look at who took the most money and the results in other tournaments.

XL Eclipse #126 - $5,200 XL Eclipse Super High Roller Chip-In

Players started the tournament with 20,000 chips and had the option to do a rebuy in the case of losing all their chips. At the end of the registration period, there were 87 players and 37 rebuys to create a total prize pool of $620,000 which was divided by the last 12 players.

Long before the money was reached players like Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov, Robin "Inho" Ytalo, Chris "888Moorman" Moorman, Niklas "tutten7" Astedt and Sofia "sofialovgren" Lovgren were all busted from the tournament.

Before the bubble came in sight, the tournament lost Simon "Isildur1337x" Mattson, "AriGold17" and "MindSyntax". On the bubble, "d1sclosure" lost with his ace-jack against pocket tens and he was the last player to leave the tournament empty-handed.

The final table was reached after a short while, with the elimination of Johan5390 in ninth place. In quick succession, Mike "SirWatts" Watson (eigth, $21,700), Mark "AceSpade11" Radoja (seventh, $26,350) and "Kannwas" (sixth, $32,5500) busted. From that moment, it was a long grind with the final five players. In the end, "Zebest7r" was sent to the rail after losing with jack-ten against ace-jack.

With four players remaining, Thomas "WushuTM" Muhlocker became the shortest stack. After a while he was all in with jack-eight against queen-nine and lost the hand. Muhlocker finished in fourth place for $58,900. Just a few minutes after that, Alexandr "Biack88" Trofimov went out in third place for $86,800, losing a coin flip with pocket fives against the ace-ten of chip leader Aleksandr "Evnomiya" Mordvinov.

Mordvinov started the heads up with a big chip leader, but "spider4444" fought back in no-time. When he got back to even stacks, the two got in it with top pair. "spider4444" held the better kicker and that sealed the deal. He won the tournament for $170,500 while the Russian had to settle for second place and $114,700.

XL Eclipse #120 - $15,000 Lightning 6-Max

Once again, the first winner of the day came from the $15,000 Lightning 6-Max. This time there were 130 players competing to create a prize pool of $22,000. Belarus' "plotka_voxa" took the victory and received the first prize of $5,720.

XL Eclipse #121 - $15,000 Breeze

"Kaktus26rus" was crowned winner in the XL Eclipse #121 - $15,000 Breeze. He defeated Sweden's "creutz93" in the final heads-up to snag the first prize of $3,135.

XL Eclipse #122 - $15,000 Deepstack Swordfish

XL Eclipse #123 - $40,000 Crocodile

One of the tournaments with a higher buy-in on Day 10 was the XL Eclipse #123 - $40,000 Crocodile. The 301 players paid the buy-in of $160 to create a prize pool of $45,150. The first prize of $8,737 went to Romania's "bowdownfish" who defeated "Prof_Plum" in the final heads-up.

XL Eclipse #124 - $15,000 Swordfish

XL Eclipse #125 - $20,000 Monsoon

XL Eclipse #127 - $150,000 Mini Chip-In

XL Eclipse #128 - $40,000 Tuesday Challenge

In the XL Eclipse #128 - $40,000 Tuesday Challenge, Brittish player "Gandalf_MRS" snagged the title and secured the $8,626 top prize. He defeated "doyleb102", who had to settle for $6,356, in the deciding heads-up.

XL Eclipse #129 - $15,000 Tornado

One of the bigger tournaments on Day 10 was the XL Eclipse #129 - $20,000 Tornado. In this tournament, 122 players competed for a prize pool of $17,300. After several hours, Ukraine's "the_HOBIT_" took the victory and received $3,573.

XL Eclipse #130 - $15,000 Turbo Chip-In

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