Series schedule
For the first time, 888Poker is holding a series under a similar brand and already on a new client, so it's interesting how the room will try to distinguish this festival from all the previous ones. In terms of the organization of the schedule, in comparison with the XL Inferno held in May, the differences are minimal. The grid still has the same 34 events, only with a smaller total guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000.
The principle of the series has also been preserved — 3 tournaments of the same type per day with different buy-in levels and guaranteed prize pools. For the majority of events, entries will range from $16.5 to $55, with a guarantee in the range of $10K — $50K.
The full XL Winter Series schedule for December 10th to 20th, 2020.
| Date | Time (CET) | Tournament | Buy-in |
| 12/10/2020 | 19:00 | XL Winter #1 – $50,000 Opening Event | 109$ |
| 12/10/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #2 – $15,000 Mini Opening Event | 16,50$ |
| 12/10/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #3 – $15,000 Late Opening Event | 55$ |
| 12/11/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #4 – $30,000 PKO | 55$ |
| 12/11/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #5 – $15,000 Mini PKO | 22$ |
| 12/11/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #6 – $10,000 Late PKO | 33$ |
| 12/12/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #7 – $30,000 8-Max | 109$ |
| 12/12/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #8 – $10,000 Mini 8-Max | 12$ |
| 12/12/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #9 – $15,000 Late 8-Max | 55$ |
| 12/13/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #10 – $50,000 Tune Up | 55$ |
| 12/13/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #11 – $30,000 Mini Tune Up | 16,50$ |
| 12/13/2020 |
19:30 |
XL Winter #12 – $10,000 Micro Tune Up | 5,50$ |
| 12/13/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #13 – $20,000 Late Tune Up | 55$ |
| 12/14/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #14 – $20,000 R&A Event | 33$ |
| 12/14/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #15 – $10,000 Mini R&A | 5,50$ |
| 12/14/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #16 – $10,000 Late R&A | 12$ |
| 12/15/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #17 – $50,000 High Roller | 320$ |
| 12/15/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #18 – $25,000 Mini High Roller | 55$ |
| 12/15/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #19 – $20,000 Late High Roller | 109$ |
| 12/16/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #20 – $30,000 PKO | 109$ |
| 12/16/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #21 – $15,000 Mini PKO | 16,50$ |
| 12/16/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #22 – $10,000 Late PKO | 33$ |
| 12/17/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #23 – $40,000 PKO 8-Max | 160$ |
| 12/17/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #24 – $15,000 Mini PKO 8-Max | 22$ |
| 12/17/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #25 – $15,000 Late PKO 8-Max | 55$ |
| 12/18/2020 | 18:00 | XL Winter #26 – $25,000 PKO DeepStack | 55$ |
| 12/18/2020 | 18:00 | XL Winter #27 – $15,000 Mini DeepStack | 16,50$ |
| 12/18/2020 | 20:00 | XL Winter #28 – $10,000 Late DeepStack | 33$ |
| 12/19/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #29 – $25,000 PKO 6-Max | 109$ |
| 12/19/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #30 – $15,000 Mini PKO 6-Max | 16,50$ |
| 12/19/2020 | 21:00 | XL Winter #31- $15,000 Late PKO 6-Max | 55$ |
| 12/20/2020 | 18:00 | XL Winter #32 - $500,000 Main Event PKO | 250$ |
| 12/20/2020 | 18:30 | XL Winter #33 - $50,000 Mini Main Event PKO | 33$ |
| 12/20/2020 |
19:00 |
XL Winter #34 - $15,000 Late Main Event PKO | 5,50$ |
$500,000 Main Event PKO and satellites
The Main Event will start at 18:00 CET time on December 20th and will have the following structure:
- 270 minutes late registration period.
- Up to four re-entries.
- 30,000 chips (300 BB) for the initial stack.
- Blinds rise every 15 minutes.
The main tournament of the series will have exactly half of its guarantee. To cover it, this $250 buy-in event will have to collect over 2,120 entries by the end of late registration. Various satellites should help this. The first big innovation of the XL Winter Series appears in their grid as its main event will run in PKO format.
Satellites to XL Winter #32 — $500,000 Main Event PKO will include freerolls!
Three types of daily qualifying satellites:
- XL Winter Main Event Freeroll — two hyper-turbo tournaments with three and six $250 tickets.
- $500K XL Main Event — 2 Seat GTD for $12. There is a step satellite for 1 cent with 7 guaranteed tickets.
- $500K XL Main Event — 4 Seat GTD for $27. It has a $5 step satellite with 10 ticket GTD and 1 cent lower-level qualifiers.
The first tickets to various tournaments in the series and satellites will drop out of Gifts Drops — random prizes at 888Poker tables.
Streams and giveaways
Another new addition to the XL Winter Series is live streaming. They will run on December 10th, 13th, and 20th on YouTube and Facebook with comments from David Tuckman and Nick Wealthall.
And to catch the player's attention to streams, they will be given passwords to $450 XL Streaming Winter Freeroll and a ticket's raffle (3 at $109 and 5 at $33) will be held.
Since many regulars didn't like the new 888Poker software, there is a good chance that the XL Winter Series $1M GTD will have weaker lineups than other series from the poker room this year.
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