In a final table that was somewhat marred by technical issues, "raw_dawg" emerged as the winner of the XL Retro Main Event after coming into the day as the chip leader. They defeated "kryingkid" heads up after that player came back from the sixth place stack to start the day.

It was a short day on the final table with the action complete in just over two hours. There was a client crash early in the final table, and some connection issues when play was four-handed. Both "kryingkid" and "mylly8" experienced connection issues during three-handed play as well, and "mylly8" was forced out in 3rd after they blinded down while sitting out for a few hands.

When players were connected, the pace of play was very quick. They started the day relatively short stacked, and just got shorter from there. The first elimination happened within the first few hands of the day, and while it took some time before "Illraise8" went out in 8th, that opened the floodgates.

There were three quick eliminations to bring the field down to four before connection issues came back into play. All players had varying issues with connectivity while four-handed which really hampered the short-stacked players and that meant the game ended quickly.

XL Retro Main Event Final Table Standings

That brings coverage for the 2022 XL RETRO Series from 888poker to an end. The Main Event ended up attracting more than 2,100 total entries which broke the guarantee with $508,070 in total prizes. While a deal was discussed heads-up, ultimately they decided to play it out