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The season ending 888poker LIVE London festival is a couple of months away, and the operator is looking to send as many players as possible to the Main Event.
Players will now get to enjoy more play during early levels, longer late registration, and bigger guarantees across the board.
Each week, BetRivers Poker will be dishing out $10,000 worth of satellite tickets to its upcoming Multi-State Summer Series.
The operator is set to give out over $8,000 in cash prizes via Sunday freeroll and award four $2,500 packages to the season-ending 888poker LIVE event in London.
Lucas Jumalon will be coming back as a big chip leader, looking to secure a Main Event victory and become the second-youngest winner in the history of the tournament.
Barone outlasted well over 9,000 players in the Main Event to finish in 65th place for his career-best live score of $125,000.
Michael Mizrachi is still in contention to do the impossible and go back-to-back in the Main Event, but he’ll have some work to do once the cards are back in the air.
Players can get 30% in additional rakeback when playing at any of the qualifying cash game tables during designated time periods.
This turnout makes the 2026 tournament the fourth-largest Main Event in the history of the series, set to pay out over $85,000,000 in prize money.
The operator’s biggest and most ambitious series so far has been quite successful, attracting solid player numbers and generating quite a bit of buzz.
Kid Poker navigated his way through a very difficult field to come out on top, winning over $2.2 million and adding another WSOP bracelet to his collection.