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• $150,000 Weekend Mystery Starter Final Table Chip Counts
• 888poker Ambassador Aaron Barone Finishes Second in XL Winter Series SHR
• $150,000 Weekend Mystery Starter Final Table Results
• 2025 888poker XL Winter Series Results So Far

The biggest event of the 888poker XL Winter Series, the $109 buy-in, $150,000 guaranteed Weekend Mystery Starter has crowned its champion. A field of 1,246 entries left a sizeable overlay on the guarantee, and Brazil's "djjazz222" took full advantage of the added value, eventually coming out on top and taking home $11,010.

Day 2 of the $150,000 guaranteed event saw the field whittled to a more manageable final table of eight. Brazilian "Nelepo10" went into the final table holding a colossal chip lead, his 108 big blinds dwarfing the 34 in "Hodor83"'s stack. The eventual champion sat down with 17 big blinds, enough for sixth place at the restart.

All the biggest bounties have already been claimed. "OchoChoocho" opened a golden envelope containing a $4,500 mystery bounty. After firing eight $109 bullets at this tournament, they fell in 21st place.

"nuncanemvi" also captured a $4,500 bounty payment before busting in 13th, but "qinghe2012" was the player who opened the jackpot mystery bounty of $15,000. They crashed in 58th but could still finish as the tournament's biggest winner courtesy of that five-figure bounty payment.

$150,000 Weekend Mystery Starter Final Table Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Nelepo10	Brazil	5,391,893	108
2	Hodor83	United Kingdom	1,689,290	34
3	goldengaze1	United Kingdom	1,274,081	26
4	kosmow1	Germany	1,036,209	21
5	Sly_81	Germany	1,021,566	20
6	djjazz222	Brazil	826,700	17
7	perrivini	Brazil	706,146	14
8	MarcJohn	United Kingdom	514,115	10

Only two minutes passed before the final table lost its first player. Down to eight big blinds, "MarcJohn" open-shoved from under the gun with ace-ten but ran into the pocket queens of "djjazz222" on the button. The queens flopped a set and improved to a boat on the river, and "MarcJohn" was done and dusted.

Less than ten minutes later, "kosmow1" min-raised in middle position with king-jack, and "perrivini" defended their big blind with jack-ten. A king-seven-jack flop saw "perrivini" check-call a small bet, leading to a ten on the turn. Having turned two pair and being short-staked, "perrivini" was destined to be all-in. "perrivini" checked the turn but then check-raised all-in after "kosmow1" fired a second barrel. "kosmow1" called the extra chips and swerved another ten on the river to reduce the player count to six.

Those six became five after "goldengaze1" of the United Kingdom ran out of steam. Thirty minutes into proceedings, the action folded to "goldengaze1" in the cutoff and they open-shoved for 9.5 big blinds with pocket sixes. Ordinarily, such a move would scoop the blinds and antes. However, "kosmow1" woke up on the button with ace-queen, called the shove, and spiked a hand-winning queen on the river.

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Fifth place went to "Sly_81" who moved all-in for 10 big blinds with queen-jack under the gun only for "kosmow1" to find pocket kings in the small blind. The queen-jack was drawing dead by the turn.

"Hodor83" busted in fourth ten minutes later after jamming all-in for 8.7 big blinds with pocket deuces on the button only for "Nelepo10" to call from the big blind with the superior pocket queens. The five community cards ran out with no drama, and the final table was down to only three players before the first break of the day.

Three-handed play lasted the best part of an hour, ending with "kosmow1" heading to the showers. "djjazz222" raised three times the big blind on the button with pocket kings before snap-calling the 11 big blind shove from "kosmow1" from the big blind, which was made with king-jack. The cowboys held, and the tournament progressed to heads-up.

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"djjazz222" held a 7,799,692 to 4,660,308 chip lead at the start of heads-up play but "Nelepo10" levelled matters. With the stacks even, the heads-up duo struck a deal to lessen the pay jumps before resuming the tournament.

The final hand saw "djjazz222" back in the lead and opening with king-jack. A few emojis later, "Nelepo10" three-bet shoved with pocket fives and was called. A king on the flop gifted the title to "djjazz222."

$150,000 Weekend Mystery Starter Final Table Results

Rank	Player	Country	Bounties	Prize	Total Prize
1	djjazz222	Brazil	$824	$10,185	$11,010*
2	Nelepo10	Brazil	$524	$9,891	$10,416*
3	kowmow1	Germany	$479	$6,225	$6,704
4	Hodor83	United Kingdom	$2,054	$4,612	$6,666
5	Sly_81	Germany	$134	$3,412	$3,547
6	goldengaze1	United Kingdom	$3,119	$2,550	$5,669
7	perrivini	Brazil	$179	$1,920	$2,099
8	MarcJohn	United Kingdom	$884	$1,455	$2,339

2025 888poker XL Winter Series Results So Far

Expand the table below and check out the results for the completed XL Winter Series events so far.

Event	Entrants	Prize Pool	Champion	Prize
#01 - $109 Weekend Mystery Starter	1,246	$150,000	djjazz222	$11,010
#02 - $16.50 Opening Event Mystery Bounty	1,581	$23,715	klapciukas	$2,040
#03 - $33 Opening Event	474	$14,220	Beratna	$2,601
#04 - $55 Opening Event PKO	702	$35,100	Paulada85	$5,449
#05 - $22 Opening Event MB Big or Small	849	$16,980	sjae98	$2,264
#06 - $1,050 Super High Roller	39	$40,000	Zebest7r	$13,680
#07 - $16.50 Daily Gems PKO Mid	774	$12,000	PrivetPawtet	1,767
#08 - $8.80 Daily Gems PKO Mini	615	$4,920	jan4ixs	$892
#09 - $215 High Roller	68	$13,600	ab_wien	$3,712
#10 - $55 Daily Gems PKO	389	$19,450	LimperShroom	$3,646
#11 - $33 Daily Gems Marathon	354	$10,620	Cabbazzzzz	$2,048
#12 - $16.50 Daily Gems Super KO Mini	715	$12,000	p257829	$1,204
#13 - $320 Super KO High Roller	55	$16,500	Kabosu69	$3,225
#14 - $55 Daily Gems Mystery Bounty	349	$17,450	UZUN94	$2,451
#15 - $109 Daily Gems Super KO	121	$12,100	Munich111	$1,706

_{All prizes included bounty payments where applicable}

Remaining 888poker XL Winter Schedule

Dozens of tournaments remain on the 888poker XL Winter Series schedule. Check them out below, buy into some of them, and see if you can become an XL Winter Series champion.

Date	Time	XL Winter Tournament Name	Buy-in	GTD
22-Jan	14:30	XL Winter #16 - Daily Gems - PKO Special	$16.50	$4,000
22-Jan	16:00	XL Winter #17 - Daily Gems - MB Big or Small Mini	$11	$10,000
22-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #18 - Daily Gems - Mystery Bounty Special	$55	$15,000
22-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #19 - Daily Gems - MB Big or Small	$22	$10,000
22-Jan	19:00	XL Winter #20 - Daily Gems - Big Shot Special	$109	$12,000
22-Jan	17:00	XL Winter - PKO Rumble 109	$109	$5,000
22-Jan	22:30	XL Winter - Mystery Bounty Turbo 16.50	$16.50	$2,000
23-Jan	16:00	XL Winter #21 - Daily Gems - PKO Special	$11	$10,000
23-Jan	17:00	XL Winter #22 - DeepStack High Roller	$320	$15,000
23-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #23 - Daily Gems - DeepStack	$55	$15,000
23-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #24 - Daily Gems - Mystery Bounty Special	$22	$10,000
23-Jan	19:00	XL Winter #25 - Daily Gems - DeepStack High	$109	$12,000
23-Jan	17:00	XL Winter - PKO Rumble 109	$109	$5,000
23-Jan	22:30	XL Winter - Mystery Bounty Turbo 16.50	$16.50	$2,000
24-Jan	16:00	XL Winter #26 - Daily Gems - Mystery Bounty Mini	$11	$12,000
24-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #27 - Daily Gems - Mystery Bounty Mid	$22	$10,000
24-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #28 - Daily Gems - Mystery Bounty	$55	$15,000
24-Jan	19:00	XL Winter #29 - Daily Gems - Big Shot Special	$109	$12,000
24-Jan	17:00	XL Winter - PKO Rumble 109	$109	$5,000
24-Jan	22:30	XL Winter - Mystery Bounty Turbo 16.50	$16.50	$2,000
25-Jan	16:00	XL Winter #30 - Daily Gems - PKO 6-Max Mid	$16.50	$12,000
25-Jan	17:00	XL Winter #31 - PLO Mystery Bounty Special	$11	$2,000
25-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #32 - Daily Gems - PKO 6-Max	$55	$15,000
25-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #33 - Daily Gems - Mystery Bounty 6-Max Special	$22	$10,000
25-Jan	19:00	XL Winter #34 - Daily Gems - PKO 6-Max High	$109	$12,000
25-Jan	17:00	XL Winter - PKO Rumble 109	$109	$5,000
25-Jan	22:30	XL Winter - Mystery Bounty Turbo 16.50	$16.50	$2,000
26-Jan	15:00	XL Winter #35 - Daily Gems - Deepstack Special	$33	$10,000
26-Jan	16:00	XL Winter #36 - Mystery Bounty mini	$16.50	$20,000
26-Jan	17:00	XL Winter #37 - Mystery Bounty	$55	$35,000
26-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #38 - MB Big or Small Special	$22	$12,000
26-Jan	19:00	XL Winter #39 - THE PKO Rumble	$109	$50,000
26-Jan	19:00	XL Winter #40 - Big Shot High Roller	$525	$30,000
26-Jan	17:00	XL Winter - Sunday PKO Rumble 109	$109	$7,000
26-Jan	22:30	XL Winter - Mystery Bounty Turbo 16.50	$16.50	$2,000
27-Jan	16:00	XL Winter #41 - Daily Gems - PKO mini	$16.50	$10,000
27-Jan	17:00	XL Winter #42 - High Roller Special	$215	$10,000
27-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #43 - Daily Gems - PKO	$55	$15,000
27-Jan	19:00	XL Winter #44 - Daily Gems - Mystery Bounty Special	$33	$10,000
27-Jan	21:00	$100,000 XL Winter #45 - Mystery Bounty Mini Event (Day 2)*	$25	$100,000
27-Jan	21:00	$1,000,000 XL Winter #46 - Mystery Bounty Main Event (Day 2)**	$888	$1,000,000
27-Jan	17:00	XL Winter - PKO Rumble 109	$109	$5,000
27-Jan	22:30	XL Winter - Mystery Bounty Turbo 16.50	$16.50	$2,000
28-Jan	16:00	XL Winter #47 - Daily Gems - Closing Event MB Mini	$16.50	$12,000
28-Jan	17:00	XL Winter #48 - High Roller Special	$320	$15,000
28-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #49 - Daily Gems - Closing Event Mystery Bounty	$55	$20,000
28-Jan	18:00	XL Winter #50 - Daily Gems - Big Shot Special	$109	$12,000
28-Jan	19:00	$1,000,000 XL Winter #46 - Mystery Bounty Main Event (Final Table)	-	-
28-Jan	17:00	XL Winter - PKO Rumble 109	$109	$5,000
28-Jan	22:30	XL Winter - Mystery Bounty Turbo 16.50	$16.50	$2,000