The festival was a huge success with a whopping $60 million guaranteed across 88 events, each boasting the customary PokerStars Low, Medium, and High tiers.
Lithuania s arbaarba capped off the festival on Tuesday evening by shipping the Blowout Series :$1,050 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] for $739,976 for huge win.
Their massive haul came after agreeing to a three-way deal with
Fernando fviana Viana and
Lonnie thx4urm0n3y Hallett, who shipped a Blowout Series event earlier in the week.
Meanwhile, Viana earned a bit more than the winner as his runner-up performance was worth $771,416 thanks to a three-way deal made at the final table.
The festival was a huge success with a whopping $60 million guaranteed across 88 events, each boasting the customary PokerStars Low, Medium, and High tiers.
Lithuania s arbaarba capped off the festival on Tuesday evening by shipping the Blowout Series :$1,050 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] for $739,976 for huge win.
Their massive haul came after agreeing to a three-way deal with
Fernando fviana Viana and
Lonnie thx4urm0n3y Hallett, who shipped a Blowout Series event earlier in the week.
Meanwhile, Viana earned a bit more than the winner as his runner-up performance was worth $771,416 thanks to a three-way deal made at the final table.
Lithuanian arbaarba Wins $739,976 In PokerStars Big Blowout Online Event
The $1,050 Buy-In No-Limit Hold em Event Attracted 6,922 Entries
by Erik Fast
| Published: Jan 20, 2021
The
PokerStars Blowout Series ‘Big Blowout’ $1,050 buy-in no-limit hold’em eight-max event drew a massive field of 6,922 total entries, blowing away the $5,000,000 guarantee to create a final prize pool of $6,922,000. In the end, it was Lithuanian-based ‘arbaarba’ who came out on top, earning $739,976 and the title after striking a deal during three-handed play.
The top 975 finishers made the money in this tournament, with a min-cash being worth $2,264. A number of notables made the money only to fall short of the final table, including Teun ‘tinnoemulder’ Mulder (37th – $9,845), Lex Veldhuis (30th – $14,029), and 2016
Final Table Action Gordon dReid started as the short stack at the start of the day and would be the first to go too when their aces got cracked by the pocket tens of arbaarba who flopped a set. Viana doubled through xMFPx to take a small chip lead and then dealt the final blow to the latter with ace-king. Forty-five minutes later, adkaf fell with pocket queens to the ace-king of arbaarba . With Onodera following them a few minutes later when milanov888 flopped trips.
Vlad Darie finished in fifth place for $238,483
It would then take almost 50 minutes before Darie was sent to the rail after getting shorter and shorter for a while. His queen-eight failed to connect with anything on the board for him to see his chips go to Viana for an even bigger chip lead. Viana held onto the chip lead for most of the night as he also took out milanov888 with pocket treys with the flopped set.