888poker Game Formats: SNAP, BLAST, Cash Games and XL Series (2026)

Cash games: Hold’em and Omaha

Regular cash tables run No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha, with most traffic at micro and low stakes. That is where the recreational players drawn in by the no-deposit bonus sit, while mid- and high-stakes tables are thin and often open only at peak European hours.

Rake is 5%, and at the lowest limits the caps are higher than on GGPoker or PokerStars. Funded players can soften that with the weekly cash-game rakeback, which runs from 5% at $200 of weekly rake up to 50% at $5,000 and above.

SNAP: fast-fold poker

SNAP is 888poker’s fast-fold version of cash games: as soon as you fold, you move to a new table with fresh cards, so you see far more hands per hour. Omaha SNAP tables are labelled separately in the lobby, and unlabelled ones are No-Limit Hold’em.

Because opponents change every hand, reads matter less and solid preflop discipline matters more. The built-in HUD works here too, showing basic stats from the hands you have shared with each player.

BLAST: jackpot Sit & Go

BLAST is a three-handed super-turbo Hold’em Sit & Go with buy-ins from $0.10 to $100. A random draw before the start sets the prize pool anywhere from 2x to 10,000x the buy-in, and bigger multipliers come with deeper stacks and longer levels.

Most draws are small, so results swing wildly. Decide on a number of games or a session budget in advance, and treat a big multiplier as a pleasant surprise rather than a plan.

1. 1Open the BLAST section of the lobby and choose a buy-in that fits your session budget.
2. 2Register; the game starts as soon as two more players join, which at popular stakes takes only seconds.
3. 3Watch the draw reveal the prize multiplier, then check the stack size and level length it comes with.
4. 4Play until one player holds every chip; the info panel shows how the prize pool is split for each multiplier.

Tournaments: from daily PKOs to Mystery Bounty

The MTT schedule mixes freezeouts, progressive knockouts and Mystery Bounty events, where each bounty’s value stays hidden until you knock someone out and a single one can be worth up to 10% of the prize pool. Regular brands include the flagship Mega Deep, The Big Shot with its deep structure, The Rumble daily PKOs and The Voyage deepstacks.

Satellites start from a cent, and depositor-only freerolls help players with small rolls build up. The free no-deposit tickets are spent here as well, in $0.10 and $1 tournaments.

The XL series

Several times a year 888poker runs its XL festivals. In 2026 there were XL Winter in January and XL Spring in May, each with more than $1.5 million guaranteed, and XL Autumn in late September with almost $900,000, where 26 of the 41 events were Mystery Bounties. Long-time players will also remember earlier editions such as XL Inferno and XL Eclipse.

Each series is built around a Main Event, often a $250 Mystery Bounty, plus a $25 Mini Main for smaller bankrolls. Dates and guarantees change between editions, so check the promotions section before planning.

Sit & Go and other games

Besides BLAST, the lobby offers classic single-table Sit & Gos at a range of buy-ins, though queues at higher stakes can take a while to fill. The app description also lists Stud and private games you can host for friends; availability varies by region, so check the lobby.