Event #58 $1,500,000 Guarantee - Main Event | 2017 888poker Super XL Series

01-29-2017 20:13 UTC

Bruno "BrunoF0ster" Foster Registered and Ready to Teach a Lesson

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Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

888Poker Ambassador Bruno "BrunoF0ster" Foster has now also found his way to this Super XL Series Main Event, and while the Brazilian poker pro is certainly crossing his fingers for a deep run, so is hundreds of viewers on the streaming platform Twitch.tv.

Foster is right now streaming his play from the $1,050 tournament, and because of a five-minute delay, he is able to do it with his own hole cards shown. Foster has been off to a quiet start currently sitting just below starting stack, but his mood is still high. You can follow Foster's progress at www.twitch.tv/gruposuperpoker.

Natalie Hof is also broadcasting her Main Event experience. Take a look at www.twitch.tv/nataliehof.

Player	Chips	Progress
BrunoF0ster	17,971 17,971	17,971

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

01-29-2017 19:58 UTC

First Break of the Night

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Level 3 : 75/150, 15 ante

The 870 concurrent players just went on their first six-minute break of the night. Best off after the first hour of play is British player "stvD1981", while former EPT winner Frederik "Poelsetyv" Jensen also have managed to more than double his starting stack of 20,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
stvD1981	55,453

Poelsetyv	42,319 22,319	22,319

01-29-2017 19:52 UTC

Johannes "TrollKonst8" Korsar Finds the Early Double

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Level 3 : 75/150, 15 ante

Johannes "TrollKonst8" Korsar opened up the action under the gun for 405, Kabotajoe called in the cutoff before Swedish player "klimpen_2" reraised the button to 1,650.

The blinds quickly got out of the way, and back on Korsar he made it 3,677 total. "Kabotajoe" couldn't quite muster the call, but "klimpen_2" wasn't going anywhere and four-bet to 6,014. Korsar committed the rest of his 16,640 chips and was quickly called.

Johannes Korsar:
klimpen_2:

Korsar needed to dodge queens, and with the board running out he did just that, and surged to 34,015 chips and the better end of the leader board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Trollkonst8	34,015 14,015	14,015

Level: 3

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 15

01-29-2017 19:40 UTC

Tough Start For the Ambassadors

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Level 2 : 50/100, 10 ante

Both Dominik "888Dominik" Nitsche and Natalie "888natalieH" Hof haven't gotten off to the best start.

Natalie Hof just lost a chunk of chips against the Russian player "edelvez", when the latter flopped trips with on a -flop. Luckily Hof was let off the hook with a single bet on the turn.

Dominik Nitsche haven't had much luck either, and recently had to let go of a pot to table mate Renato "Curioso24" Lezama Nuñez. He did however win some back after his turned to top two pair, and the three time WSOP winner is now sitting on just above 18,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
888Dominik	18,141 -1,859	-1,859

888natalieH	17,941 -2,059	-2,059

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 10

01-29-2017 19:19 UTC

Plenty More Profiles Showing Up

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Level 1 : 25/50, 5 ante

They keep on registering. In the first ten minutes a hundred more players have taken a seat, and the pace of people joining in on the action just does not seem to slow down.

A few of the best Swedish tournament grinders have just been seated, namely Niklas "tutten7" Astedt and Johannes "Trollkonst8". Some of the Super XL High Roller finalist are also trying their luck in the Main Event, specifically Frederik "Poelsetyv" Jensen, Marton "WorldIsOurs" Czuczor and runner up Fabrizio "DrMiKee" Gonzalez.

Finally household names like Nicolas "PKaiser" Fierro, Richard "whostoclaim" Trigg, Lawrence "cjacksallin" Cheung and Scott "AggroSantos" Margereson have also paid the $1,050 buy-in up front to receive the 20,000 chips starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Trollkonst8	20,000 20,000	20,000

tutten7	20,000 20,000	20,000

Poelsetyv	20,000 20,000	20,000

PKaiser	20,000 20,000	20,000

DrMiKee	20,000 20,000	20,000

whostoclaim	20,000 20,000	20,000

cjacksallin	20,000 20,000	20,000

AggroSantos	20,000 20,000	20,000

01-29-2017 19:04 UTC

Who's Who?

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Level 1 : 25/50, 5 ante

With $1,500,000 guaranteed and an expected first prize of more than a quarter of a million dollars, this is almost a belated Christmas for the best online tournament players out there. Not surprisingly a lot of these heavy hitters have showed up tonight, and so far the following profiles have been spotted in the field:

Natalie "888natalieH" Hof
Dominik "888Dominik" Nitsche
Pim "SuprNintend0" de Goede
Renato "curioso24" Lezama Nuñez
Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov
Aleksandr "EvnomiYa" Mordvinov
Simon "isildur1337x" Matsson
Bernando "bsdias" Dias
Andreas "r4ndomr4gs" Berggren
Roman "romeopro33" Romanovskiy
Christopher "nigdawg" Brammer

Player	Chips	Progress
SuprNintend0	20,000

curioso24	20,000

veeea	20,000

EvnomiYa	20,000

isildur1337x	20,000

bsdias	20,000

r4ndomr4gs	20,000

romeopro33	20,000

888Dominik	20,000

888natalieH	20,000

nigdawg	20,000

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 5