PokerNews Online Championship Main Events Smash Their Guarantees at 888poker

Matthew Pitt Senior Editor

Mar 05, 2024 4 min read

Day 2 of the $300,000 Guaranteed Main Event Ends With Eight Players
$300,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event Final Table Chip Counts
Dane Demolishes $50,000 Guaranteed Mystery Bounty Mini Main Event
$50,000 Mystery Bounty Mini Main Event Final Table Results
PokerNews Online Championship Results So Far
Remaining PokerNews Online Championship Schedule

PokerNews and 888poker wanted two Main Events for the inaugural PokerNews Online Championship and settled on a $25 buy-in, $50,000 guaranteed, and $215 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed mystery bounty affair. Both guarantees were on the ambitious side, yet both were obliterated thanks to your incredible support.

Some 1,627 players bought into the $215 edition, creating a guarantee-busting $325,400 prize pool while a field of 3,085 in the $25 buy-in tournament resulted in $70,955 being awarded!

Day 2 of the $300,000 Guaranteed Main Event Ends With Eight Players

Day 2 of the $300,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event started with 264 players, each with a mystery bounty envelope on their heads. One of those bounties weighed in at an astonishing $30,000, with two others worth $12,000 each.

PokerNews' Lukas "RobinPoker." Robinson was one of the chip leaders going into the penultimate day's play, but it wasn't meant to be. Robinson eventually bowed out in 25th place but not before capturing a $1,500 bounty and $2,011 worth of scalps in total; Robinson's combined haul came to $2,695.

None of the five-figure mystery bounties are left unopened after being claimed during Day 2 proceedings. Brazilian "Dangerzinn" found the $30,000 bounty before busting in 16th place, while Finland's "enarGhO" opened $12,316 worth of mystery bounties before crashing out in 12th.

$300,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event Final Table Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	scheeescheee	Mexico	3,051,520	51
2	RazvyB	Romania	2,872,759	48
3	bucurestean	Romania	2,665,882	44
4	aziz-Mancha	Brazil	2,536,063	42
5	betsoares	Brazil	2,461,804	41
6	AKGambit	Germany	1,203,674	20
7	dainuciuks	Lithuania	772,446	13
8	EstorilBlue	Lithuania	705,852	12

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Mexico's "scheeescheee" is the chip leader going into the live-streamed final table, and has already locked in $13,922 worth of bounties. Their 3,051,520 stack (51 big blinds) gives them every chance of getting their hands on the $25,625 top prize when play resumes at 7:00 p.m. GMT on March 5.

Romanian "bucurestean" returns in third place with 2,665,882 chips (44 big blinds) after firing 12 bullets across the various Day 1s. Their persistence paid off because they've scooped $15,984 worth of bounties and are still in with a legitimate shot at one of the regular prize pool's larger payouts.

The final table could go either way, with only ten big blinds separating the leader and "betsoares" in fifth place. Only Lithuanian duo "dainuciuks" and "EstorlBlue," with 12 and 10 big blinds at their disposal, are what you would consider short-stacked. "dainuciuks" won their seat via a freeroll at 888poker, meaning the Return On Investment is going to be huge even if they can't stage an impressive comeback.

Tune into the action here at PokerNews and on the 888poker Twitch channel on March 5.

Dane Demolishes $50,000 Guaranteed Mystery Bounty Mini Main Event

The only thing mini about the $25 buy-in, $50,000 guaranteed PokerNews Online Championship Mystery Bounty Mini Event was the word "mini" in its name, because $70,955 was paid out after 3,085 players bought in.

Denmark's "bagedag" was the last player standing, and they walked away with a total prize worth $6,805, plus bragging rights among their peers. Banking almost 250 buy-ins is a fantastic result in anyone's eyes.

The second biggest winner from this tournament was another Dane who busted in eighth place. "Taborlin" netted $684 for their eighth place finish. However, they pulled out $5,080 worth of mystery bounties, so they received the second-most prize money from this amazing tournament.

$50,000 Mystery Bounty Mini Main Event Final Table Results

Rank	Player	Country	Bounties	Prize	Total Prize
1	bagedag	Denmark	$811	$5,994	$6,805
2	BTRossi	Brazil	$205	$4,347	$4,552
3	arharris888	United Kingdom	$205	$3,147	$3,353
4	Antrage	Mexico	$506	$2,297	$2,803
5	Gulmamedov	Ukraine	$599	$1,691	$2,290
6	caioborges45	Brazil	$18	$1,240	$1,259
7	MrEBear	Ukraine	$80	$919	$1,000
8	Taborlin	Denmark	$5,080	$684	$5,765

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PokerNews Online Championship Results So Far

Expand the table below to discover which 888poker players have excelled during the early stages of the inaugural PokerNews Online Championship.

Event	Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool	Champion	Prize
#1 �C Opening Event Mystery Bounty	$11	1,733	$17,330	mAteus.dAne	$1,931*
#2 �C Opening Event Mystery Bounty	$55	850	$42,500	brainiac1	$4,334*
#3 �C Opening Event Mystery Bounty	$109	1,118	$120,000	yriy3	$15,389*
#4 �C Opening Event Mystery Bounty	$22	795	$15,900	KovalevEvgen	$1,827*
#5 �C Opening Event High Roller	$525	92	$46,000	dariotoma	$11,334
#6 �C PKO Mini	$11	1,111	$11,110	GemeValter	$1,884*
#7 �C PKO Mid	$33	497	$14,910	jetskii	$2,232*
#8 �C PKO	$55	283	$14,150	Sosiska	$2,372*
#9 �C PKO	$109	169	$16,900	michel.mica	$3,526*
#10 �C PKO 6-Max Mini	$11	928	$10,000	Fishmir	$1,323*
#11 �C PKO 6-Max High Roller	$320	58	$17,400	ingeruRO14	$5,690*
#12 �C PKO 6-Max Mid	$55	262	$13,100	888BIDO	$3,068*
#13 �C PKO 6-Max	$109	135	$13,500	algsxr	$3,231*
#14 �C Deep Stack Mini	$8.80	748	$5,984	smoky011$927
#15 �C Deep Stack Mid	$33	428	$12,840	Motik_13	$2,348
#16 �C Deep Stack	$109	129	$12,900	MikeyW94	$2,999
#17 �C Super KO Mini	$11	1,147	$11,470	sumyfish	$903*
#18 �C Super KO High Roller	$320	63	$18,900	pincha73	$3,846*
#19 �C Super KO	$109	186	$18,600	Nowitzki_41	$2,724*
#20 �C SNAP PKO 6-Max	$16.50	143	$2,145	shaormastyle	$509*
#21 �C Mystery Bounty 6-Max Mini	$11	1,334	$13,340	Trabuca	$1,529*
#22 �C Mystery Bounty 6-Max Micro	$5.50	1,052	$5,260	Bazinga888	$529*
#23 �C Mystery Bounty 6-Max Mid	$22	690	$13,800	paitaon	$2,059*
#24 �C Mystery Bounty 6-Max	$109	192	$19,200	betsoares	$3,658*
#25 �C Cut to the Chase	11	168	$2,000	DOPABR	$448
#26 �C DeepStack PKO Mini	$11	1,145	$11,450	Marcothx	$1,614*
#27 �C DeepStack PKO Mid	$55	348	$17,400	r1zzy	$3,196*
#28 �C PLO Mystery Bounty	$11	198	$2,000	Johnmylove	$556*
#29 �C DeepStack PKO	$109	169	$16,900	lovelydonk	$4,183*
#30 �C Mystery Bounty Mini	$11	1,886	$18,860	vadimkobets	$1,747*
#31 �C Mystery Bounty	$55	824	$41,200	AAbestAAdo	$4,800*
#32 �C Mystery Bounty Mid	$22	932	$18,640	Nazar4ik51	$1,867*
#33 �C PKO Rumble	$109	349	$34,900	cups951	$8,176*
#34 �C PKO Rumble High Roller	$525	67	$40,000	casual_win	$10,268*
#35 �C Big Shot Mini	$16.50	648	$10,000	dd6111	$1,633
#36 �C Big Shot Mid	$55	247	$12,350	Competencia	$2,503
#37 �C Big Shot	$109	179	$17,900	amormori	$4,013
#38 �C Mystery Bounty Mini Main Event	$25	3,085	$70,955	bagedag	$6,805

*includes bounty payments

Remaining PokerNews Online Championship Schedule

The final day of the PokerNews Online Championship sees a quartet of PKO act as the closing events for what has been a scintillating series. The $11, $320, $55, and $109 buy-in Closing Event PKOs shuffle up and deal at 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 7:00 p.m. GMT respectively, and are your last chance to experience some PokerNews Online Championship glory.

The $215 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event both crown their worthy winners today. Cards are in the air from 7:00 p.m. GMT, with live text coverage on PokerNews' live reporting pages and card-up video coverage via 888poker's Twitch channel.

Date	Time (GMT)	Event	Buy-in	Guarantee
Tue 5 Mar	5:00 p.m.	PokerNews #40 �C Closing Event PKO Mini	$11	$10,000
	6:00 p.m.	PokerNews #41 �C Closing Event PKO High Roller	$320	$15,000
	6:30 p.m.	PokerNews #42 �C Closing Event PKO Mid	$55	$12,000
	7:00 p.m.	PokerNews #43 �C Closing Event PKO	$109	$12,000