Moldova’s User1912 Rallies to Win 888 PokerNews Mystery Opening Event
A short-stacked final-table recovery led to a $7,614 victory after a volatile heads-up match with Lurich28.
- User1912 won the $109, $80,000-guaranteed PokerNews Mystery Opening Event for $7,614 including bounties.
- The tournament drew 730 entries and reached its eight-handed final table after Day 1.
- User1912 recovered from fewer than 15 big blinds and a large heads-up deficit against Lurich28.
- The 40-event PokerNews Online Championship continues on 888 through Oct. 27.
Moldova’s User1912 won 888’s $109 PokerNews Mystery Opening Event on Oct. 19, taking $7,614 including bounties after recovering from an early final-table setback. The two-day tournament drew 730 entries and carried an $80,000 guarantee.
The final eight players were set at the end of Day 1, with Lurich28 holding 91 big blinds, nearly double Denmark’s otteotteotte on 48 big blinds. User1912 soon fell below 15 big blinds, but fought back to reach heads-up play. During the opening levels, User1912’s pocket sixes lost to TheHueyLewis’s pocket queens.
Lurich28 began the duel with a 70-big-blind stack to User1912’s 21.3. In a key hand, User1912’s ace-king initially trailed Lurich28’s queen-jack suited: kings on both the turn and river left the stacks almost level.
The lead changed hands several times before Lurich28 three-bet all-in for more than 36 big blinds holding ace-six against User1912’s ace-king. User1912 ultimately built a nine-to-one advantage, then called Lurich28’s final shove of just over seven big blinds with pocket deuces. The deuces held on a ten-high board to end the tournament.
The Mystery Opening Event is the second-largest guaranteed tournament on the 40-event PokerNews Online Championship schedule, behind the $250 buy-in, $250,000-guaranteed Multi-Flight Mystery Bounty Main Event. The series, which offers more than $780,000 in guarantees across mystery bounty, progressive knockout and turbo events, runs on 888 through Oct. 27.
