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The 2026 PokerNews Online Championship by 888 is entering its final stretch, with only a handful of events left to crown champions. Among the last to conclude are the $25 buy-in Mystery Mini Main, guaranteed for $50,000, and the flagship $250 Mystery Main Event, guaranteed for $250,000.
Both tournaments will play their respective Day 2s starting at 9:30 p.m. GMT on October 26, the point at which mystery bounties become active. Players hoping to still qualify must join one of the remaining Day 1 flights running that afternoon and evening.
The Mystery Main Event has two flights left, starting at 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. GMT. So far, 873 entries have been recorded, with 1,073 needed to meet the $250,000 guarantee. Denmark’s “4KLOVER4ME” currently leads the 102 players through to Day 2 with 205,903 chips, narrowly ahead of “milike11” on 202,465.
Notable names in contention include Lithuania’s “sankovski,” Peter “kiskutya23” Traply, and Chile’s “Billy_Slater,” who fired 12 entries before securing a top-ten stack. Just outside the leading pack sit 888 ambassadors Aaron “abarone68” Barone and Ian “Simpioni” Simpson, in 11th and 12th place respectively.
Once Day 2 begins, mystery bounties worth up to $25,000 will be revealed, including two at $7,500 and three at $5,000, with the field playing down to an eight-handed final table broadcast live on the 888 Twitch channel on October 27.
The Mystery Mini Main, meanwhile, has four flights remaining and will conclude entirely today. With 1,475 entries logged against a 2,222 target, Germany’s “Xialeidui” leads the chip counts ahead of the final flights, while 888 ambassador Leo “KaizenStyle” Jokura currently sits 20th among the 179 players already through to Day 2.
