54 Players Reach Day 2 of the PokerNews Online Championship

The 2026 PokerNews Online Championship on 888 will end on October 27 when the champion of the $250,000 guaranteed Mystery Main Event is decided. The tournament has a $250 buy-in and seven Day 1 flights remain. At the time of writing, 466 players had taken a seat, either directly or through satellite tournaments. Of these, 54 reached Day 2 and earned the right to compete for the $25,000 jackpot bounty payout.

The chip leader is milikie11. The player turned the 10,000-chip starting stack into 202,465 chips and was the only player to return on October 26 with more than 200,000 chips. Hungarian player Peter Traply (kiskutya23) is sixth with 159,477 chips. One place below him is 888 ambassador Aaron Barone (abrone68). Barone won the first tournament of the series last weekend.

888 is also running the Mystery Mini Main, a $50,000 guaranteed tournament with a $25 buy-in. There are six more flights on the schedule. Entries have reached 665 and 80 players have advanced. 2,222 entries are needed to reach the guarantee. German player Xiaoleidui is the overall chip leader with 251,781 chips and 101 big blinds. HammHammm will start the second day with 205,455 and LiHao with 200,978. In ninth place, IOwnU888 finished second in the XL Autumn Series Main Event in 2023 and received $27,630.

16 tournaments in the series have found their champions. Three more DeepStack tournaments will be played on October 22. The buy-ins are $8.80, $109 and $320 for the High Roller, with guarantees of $4,000, $10,000 and $10,000. You must be at least 18 years old to gamble.