A round-up of news from 888Poker’s XL Inferno, and the 888Poker’s Poker After Dark, with wins for Chris Moorman and Ali Imsirovic.

‘Inferno’ is the first of three parts of Dante Alighieri’s poem ‘Divine Comedy’ where the poet Virgil guides Dante through hell. There is nothing ‘hellish’ about 888Poker’s XL Inferno, and I’m no Dante, but, right now, I’m your only guide.

39,378-entrants, some with hummus in their beards, others with the flexibility of Tin Man, competed across 34-events in XL Inferno. Unlike PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) or partypoker’s KO Series, the XL Inferno was more matchsticks on toilet roll than logs on the fire, but it will go down as a success nonetheless.

888Poker’s number crunchers estimated that $1.5m would be the right wet thumb number of a guarantee, and they were in the right ballpark after paying out $1,695,881 in prize money. Only one of the 34-events failed to hit its guarantee.