Sunday's 888poker XL Inferno schedule was the biggest day yet of the spring series.

Sunday marked the biggest day yet of 888poker’s spring series, XL Inferno.

In an effort to get players ’Tuned Up’ to play next week’s $500K GTD Main Event, the Sunday XL schedule held four tournaments with $180,000 of the series $1.4M worth of guarantees up for grabs. With Sunday traditionally the biggest online grind day of the week, players fired up their 888poker clients and registered and rebought en masse to help push all four tournaments up over their respective guarantees.

Event #10 – $100,000 Tune Up

Buy-in: $160
Entries: 595 (230 rebuys)
Prize pool: $123,750

Through the four days of XL Inferno, the $100,000 Tune Up has been the largest event on the schedule. Not only was the $160 buy-in the biggest to date, but the over $123K prize pool promised players one of the largest first-place prize of the series.

After twelve and half hours and a lengthy three-handed battle, former top-ranked UK grinder ‘prebzzz’ defeated former worldwide #1-ranked player ‘KURDEdersim’ (aka current #48-ranked ‘Sheater’) to take home the $100K Turn Up title and $23,376.37. For his part, Sweden’s ‘KURDEdersim’ walked away with $16,953.75 to add to his over $11.6M in lifetime earnings.

‘888topPair’ from the UK finished in third place, earning $12,498.75.

Event #10 Final Table Payouts

1. prebzzz – $23,376.37
2. KURDEdersim – $16,953.75
3. 888topPair – $12,498.75
4. OnTheEdgeT8s – $9,405
5. anteen – $6,608.25
6. Simpioni – $5,259.37
7. metis996 – $4,021.87
8.Nordynordbrg – $2,784.37
9. IlikePugs – $1,856.25

Event #11 – $50,000 Mini Tune Up

Buy-in: $16.50
Entries: 3007 (879 rebuys)
Prize pool: $58,290

The Mini Tune Up had 1/10th the buy-in of the original Tune Up with half of the guarantee. This made it a value tournament that players simply couldn’t pass up with 3007 players finding their way into the lobby to battle for a first-place prize in the upper four-figures.

It took three bullets and over 11 hours but in the end, ‘Bofral’ bested the large-field to secure the $8,685.21 first place prize and the title of XL Inferno champion.

Russia’s ‘IlyaZZZZZZ’ ended up as the runner-up, adding $6,353.61 to his bankroll. ‘FlushJezus’ took home the bronze and $4,604.91 for third place.

Event #11 Final Table Payouts

1. Bofral – $8,686.74
2. IlyaZZZZZZ – $6,353.61
3. FlushJezus – $4,604.91
4. Hr.Goldstein – $3,439.11
5. boyer8 – $2,413.20
6. bilblablupbp – $1,748.70
7. irungood18 – $1,165.80
8. Guialves77 – $699.48
9. R3veng35 – $524.61

Event #12 – $10,000 Micro Tune Up

Buy-in: $5.50
Entries: 1,945 (715 rebuys)
Prize pool: $13,300

Having exceeded the $10K guarantee by over $3,000, the Mirco Tune Up promised three lucky grinders the opportunity to turn $5.50 into a four-figure score.

Paraguay’s ‘Luegenlord2’ got the biggest bankroll boost of all the micro grinders after he banked $2,101.40 for first place. The result is a 382x return on his single $5.50 bullet.

Russia’s ‘sherblemon’ may have fired two times in the tournament, but they will still be happy with the $1,577.38 runner-up prize – a 143x return on his buy-in.

PocketFiver Raphael ‘raphaelvgc’ Coelho was the third place to earn over $1K, finishing in third for $1,142.47.

Event #12 Final Table Results

1. Luegenlord2 – $2,101.40
2. sherblemon – $1,577.38
3. raphaelvgc – $1,142.47
4. moderator88 – $857.85
5. centerbase – $630.42
6. HijackRu – $502.74
7. TiazonAA – $375.06
8. mixail366 – $251.37
9. bikense – $155.61

Event #13 – $20,000 Late Tune Up

Buy-in: $55
Entries: 422 (122 rebuys)
Prize pool: $27,200

It took just under eight hours for Serbia’s ‘crazyserb81’ to take down the $20,000 Late Tune Up. The PocketFiver earned the $5,219.68 first place prize, which was just enough to put the longtime grinder up over $200,000 in lifetime scores.

Russia’s ‘888pruha’ grabbed his second runner-up finish in two days after finishing in second place in Event #7 on Saturday. ‘888pruha’ picked up another $3,876 to bring his two day total north of $9,700.

Brazil’s ‘noWHATfella’ finished in third place, taking home $2,856 for his efforts.

Event #13 Final Table Results

1. crazyserb81 – $5,219.88
2. 888pruha – $3,876
3. noWHATfella – $2,856
4. 010707 – $2,176
5. MurningB4n – $1,523.20
6. LgdGaming – $1,156
7. gkareckas – $884
8. digamon – $612
9. wh4ishat3 – $451.52