"3AHYDA" Goes Wire-to-Wire to Win the 888poker XL Autumn Series $162 Mystery Bounty
��3AHYDA�� was already guaranteed to be the biggest winner in the 888poker XL Autumn Series $162 Mystery Bounty even before the final table. The Mexican player was the lucky one to pull the $20,000 envelope yesterday.
But their journey wasn��t done there, and it ended with ��3AHYDA�� holding every chip in play after defeating ��SuiC1deKin9�� heads-up to win the title and $15,400 top prize.
��3AHYDA�� more than tripled their previous highest cash with the $36,886 total they earned on the virtual felt today. They won $10,000 for finishing second in a $1,000 event on 888poker in July 2022, and won a mystery bounty tournament in April for $3,719. But not even those two scores came close to matching what they pulled off today.
Final Table results
| Place | Player | Earnings | Bounties | Total Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3AHYDA | $15,480 | $21,406 | $36,886 |
| 2 | SuiC1deKin9 | $11,290 | $2,524 | $13,814 |
| 3 | Simon "Snygren" Nygren | $8,300 | $1,184 | $9,484 |
| 4 | Con88 | $6,150 | $341 | $6,491 |
| 5 | Svarozhits | $4,550 | $1,243 | $5,793 |
| 6 | 8Packed | $3,400 | $622 | $4,022 |
| 7 | Hvalavam | $2,560 | $1,184 | $3,744 |
| 8 | Bartu79 | $1,940 | $1,043 | $2,983 |
Final Table action
��3AHYDA�� began the final table as the chip leader with 3,172,818 when play resumed at 7 p.m. GMT. ��Hvalavam�� was the short stack but cracked ��Bartu79����s set to double up early. ��Hvalavam�� then flopped a set on ��Bartu79,�� and no miracles arrived this time as ��Bartu79�� was sent to the rail in eighth place.
The two players who started the day at the top of the counts then tangled in a massive pot. Both ��3AHYDA�� and ��SuiC1deKin9�� hit a pair of kings, but ��SuiC1deKin9�� won the pot and secured a double up with a queen-kicker to knock ��3AHYDA" from atop the leaderboard.
Swedish Twitch streamer Simon ��Snygren�� Nygren then busted ��Hvalavam�� in seventh when the short stack shoved for around 1,200,000 with ace-seven but ran into ace-ten. Shortly after, ��SuiC1deKin9�� hit trips to knock out ��8Packed�� in sixth place.
��3AHYDA�� began their comeback by eliminating ��Svarozhits�� in fifth place, spiking an ace on the river to crack pocket jacks. ��3AHYDA�� and ��Con88�� then got involved in a raising war on a nine-high flop that ended when ��3AHYDA�� had their last 1,845,015 in the middle with a pair of kings and ��Con88�� showed down jack-nine. ��Con88�� couldn��t improve on the turn and river as ��3AHYDA�� doubled up.
��Con88�� was left on an extreme short stack and was eliminated by ��SuiC1deKin9�� the next hand. Nygren then doubled up off ��SuiC1deKin9�� three times to jump back into contention as ��3AHYDA�� opened a big lead over his two opponents during three-handed play.
��SuiC1deKin9�� was all in for 1,738,341 with ace-eight against ��3AHYDA����s king-jack as the flop brought a king, but ��SuiC1deKin9�� made a running straight to stay alive. Nygren wouldn��t have the same luck after calling off their last 2,035,704 with ace-seven. ��3AHYDA�� had nine-eight and flopped trip eights to bust Nygren in third place.
��3AHYDA�� led 12,310,318 to 3,121,682 at the start of heads-up and didn��t wait long before widening the lead. They made a pot-sized bet of 1,478,000 on the river and ��SuiC1deKin9�� called only for ��3AHYDA�� to show a rivered two pair. ��SuiC1deKin9�� cracked a flopped set with a turned straight to double up, but was knocked back down to just over 2,000,000 when they got their last chips in with king-ten.
��3AHYDA�� had ace-four as the flop brought a king to give ��SuiC1deKin9�� the lead. The turn, though, was an ace and ��3AHYDA�� took the lead. A safe river secured the title for ��3AHYDA�� after a wire-to-wire final table performance.
The XL Autumn Series on 888poker concludes next week with the $250 Mystery Bounty Main Event, featuring a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. Starting flights take place up to October 2, with the series ending on October 3 with the crowning of a champion.
PokerNews will be back providing live updates in a week��s time, but for now, it was ��3AHYDA�� who had the tournament of their lifetime here today.