Play in the $1M 888poker XL Winter Series Main Event for Free

The massive $1 million guaranteed XL Winter Series Mystery Bounty Main Event has an $888 buy-in, but if you are able to log into your 888poker account this morning, you have a chance of playing in this tournament for free.

The Mystery Bounty Main Event needs almost 1,200 entries to hit the seven-figure guarantee, but the current attendance stands at 1,006. With that in mind, 888poker is showing its generosity by running two special XL Winter Series Mystery Bounty Main Event freerolls that have 25x $888 seats across their prize pools.

Fire up your 888poker account, head to the tournaments tab, and select both the XL Winter and Freerolls checkboxes. You’ll discover a freeroll at 10:00 a.m. GMT with 15x $888 Main Event seats guaranteed and another at 11:30 a.m. GMT that has another 10x $888 seats guaranteed.

Three More Day 1s Added

If you manage to win one of the 25 seats from the freerolls, there is a trio of Day 1s to choose from. They shuffle up and deal at 12:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. GMT.

Day 2 commences at 9:00 p.m. GMT and continues until only eight players remain. Those eight finalists return to their seats at 7:00 p.m. GMT on January 28 to play to a winner under the watchful eyes of the excellent 888poker Twitch stream.

Current XL Winter Series Mystery Bounty Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts

Armenia’s “Armeniashka” is the player to catch in the Main Event. They turned their 10,000 starting stack into a tournament-leading 262,384, the equivalent of 131 big blinds. Two other players, “Guess_Who” of Montenegro and “feerofeero” of Ukraine, also have more than 100 big blinds at their disposal once Day 2 starts later today.

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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. “djjazz222” and “Zbest7r” are the two biggest winners of the XL Winter Series so far. The former recently won the $150,000 Weekend Mystery Starter for $11,010, while the latter took down the $1,050 Super High Roller for $13,680.

Some XL Winter Series events boasted chunky prize pools over the weekend, including the $109 PKO Rumble. It attracted 639 players who created a $63,900 prize pool. “chrisfrimodt” came out on top and scooped $10,167 of the pot.

“OMGTHATEDGE” won the $525 Big Shot High Roller, outlasting 69 opponents to take home $9,800.

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Remaining 888poker XL Winter Schedule

Here are the remaining tournaments 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.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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