888poker Millions Superstorm: Romania’s “777ibi” Wins the Sunday Special ($17,186)

The biggest online poker festival ever to take place in the long history of 888poker is more than a week through its schedule with the Millions Superstorm guaranteeing at more than $8 million across 480 tournaments from Sept. 10 to Oct. 11.

The highlight of the festival is the two-day $320 888Millions Superstorm Main Event boasting a huge $1 million guarantee. Opening flights have already begun for this event and there are plenty of chances every day for you to earn a ticket to this event for free.

A pair of players waiving the Romanian flag was the biggest winners over the weekend. “TrisTtan7” won the biggest prize after shipping the 888Millions $109 Sunday Mega Deep – $100,000 GTD for $18,890 while “777ibi” agreed to a heads-up deal in the 888Million $215 Sunday Special – $100,000 GTD for $17,186 after agreeing to a heads-up deal at the final table.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Maksim “MAMOHT_T” Mamonov had the best single result thus far in the festival after shipping the 888Millions High Roller for a cool $23,000 earlier last week. Mamonov is a well-known online tournament beast with nearly $9 million in online earnings as tracked at PocketFives, where is he currently residing in 14th place in the Worldwide Rankings.

Check below for a complete overview of the past few days of the Millions Superstorm at 888poker.

“777ibi” Wins 888Millions Sunday Special ($17,188)

After just over eight hours of play, “777ibi” from Romania has won the 888Million Sunday Special after besting the field of 355 entries and 102 rebuys. They made a deal heads up, so the win was worth $17,188 instead of the original prize of $19,350.

“777ibi” came into the final table with the second smallest stack, but played the small stack well. They were behind when heads up began as well, and after a wild few hands, emerged victorious.

888Millions Sunday Special Final Table Results

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888Millions Superstorm Recent Results

Dozens of events have already taken place during the first 11 days of the Millions Superstorm at 888poker with many other players outside of “777ibi” winning big.

Some notable players to win 888Millions Superstorm events over the weekend included Feargus “EZ.PZ” Murphy, Leocir “LeoJoseCarne” Carneiro, Artem “xXgorglavXx” Yakolev, and Janis “crapmachine” Valters.

Check below for a complete overview of the past few days of the Millions Superstorm at 888poker.

888Millions $16.50 PKO – $5,000 GTD

888Millions $44 PKO 8-Max – $5,000 GTD

888Millions $88 PKO 8-Max – $10,000 GTD

888Millions $33 BIG Fish – $12,000 GTD

888Millions $109 Mega Deep – $12,000 GTD

888Millions $22 PKO – $8,000 GTD

888Millions $7.50 PKO 8-Max – $6,000 GTD

888Millions $55 Monsoon – $12,000 GTD

888Millions $55 Deepstack – $30,000 GTD

888Millions $22 Mini Deepstack – $20,000 GTD

888Millions $16.50 BIG Fish – $15,000 GTD

888Millions $33 BIG Fish – $12,000 GTD

888Millions $5.50 BIG Fish – $7,000 GTD

888Millions $55 PKO 6-Max – $10,000 GTD

888Millions $22 PKO – $8,000 GTD

888Millions $16.50 PKO – $5,000 GTD

888Millions $44 PKO 8-Max – $5,000 GTD

888Millions $88 PKO 8-Max – $10,000 GTD

888Millions $33 BIG Fish – $12,000 GTD

888Millions $109 Mega Deep – $12,000 GTD

888Millions $22 PKO – $8,000 GTD

888Millions $7.50 PKO 8-Max – $6,000 GTD

888Millions $55 Monsoon – $12,000 GTD

888Millions $109 6-Max – $30,000 GTD

888Millions $22 Mini 6-Max – $20,000 GTD

888Millions $16.50 BIG Fish – $15,000 GTD

888Millions $33 BIG Fish – $12,000 GTD

888Millions $5.50 BIG Fish – $7,000 GTD

888Millions $55 PKO 6-Max – $10,000 GTD

888Millions $22 PKO – $8,000 GTD

888Millions $16.50 Sunday PKO – $8,000 GTD

888Millions $44 PKO 8-Max – $5,000 GTD

888Millions $88 Sunday PKO 8-Max – $15,000 GTD

888Millions $33 Sunday BIG Fish – $18,000 GTD

888Millions $109 Sunday Challenge PKO – $25,000 GTD

888Millions $22 Sunday Mini Mega Deep- $15,000 GTD

888Millions $7.50 PKO 8-Max – $6,000 GTD

888Millions $55 Mini Sunday Special – $50,000 GTD

888Millions $109 Sunday Mega Deep – $100,000 GTD

888Millions $16.50 Sunday BIG Fish – $20,000 GTD

888Millions $33 Sunday BIG Fish – $18,000 GTD

888Millions $5.50 Sunday BIG Fish – $8,000 GTD

888Millions $55 PKO 6-Max – $10,000 GTD

888Millions $22 PKO – $8,000 GTD

888Millions Superstorm Main Event Update

Opening flights for the Superstorm Main Event are underway with thus far 980 entrants (including 113 inflight re-entries) already hopping into the action in hopes for a lion’s share of the at least $1 million guaranteed in the prize pool.

A total of 142 players and counting have thus far virtually bagged a stack with many more to come. Brazil’s “vitola99” has maintained the chip lead for over a week after growing his 10,000 opening chip stack into a monster stack of 227,527 in chips.

There was just one change in the top 10 players on the leaderboard over the weekend with Lithuania’s “InfoDealer” slipping into the eighth spot on the leaderboard.

This pushed the former top-ranked online tournament player in the world in Chile’s Nicolas “PKaiser” Fierro out of the top 10 and into the 11th spot on the leaderboard.

Here is a look at the top 10 players on the leaderboard thus far with many more opening flights to come.

The Main Event provides plenty of action with 20-minute blind levels on Day 1. Opening flights end the sooner of 12 blind levels in the books or the field trimmed down to 14 percent of its starting size.

The next opening flight takes place on Monday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. GMT / 3 p.m. EDT. There are plenty of satellites for players to qualify for pennies on the dollars along with many paths for players to get their tickets for free.

Surviving players will return for one final day of play on Sunday, Oct. 11 when all of the action will be reported under the watchful eye of the PokerNews Live Reporting team.