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Day 2 of the PokerStars Blowout Series: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] has come to an end after nine hours and nine players are left to play down to a winner on Tuesday, January 19 at 6:05 p.m. GMT. On Day 1, the tournament attracted 6,490 entries with 1,580 players surviving with chips for Day 2. As the late registration and reentry period was open until just before the start of Day 2, another 432 players decided to jump in to get to 6,922 entries in total out of 5,292 unique players ...

Just like last week, Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis is leading the Team PokerStars members into Day 2 with 175,137 in chips. His first bullet didnt hit any targets as he first lost a chunk of his stack with kings and then lost the rest while holding them himself. He is joined for Day 2 by Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas (160,484) and Andre "aakkari" Akkari (39,140) who also had to reenter after losing his chips with kings too. "valerion06" had hit a straight already. Georgina "GJReggie" Jameslo...

Day 2 of the PokerStars Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] came to an end after more than eight hectic hours of play with 16 players making it through to the final day. Day 1 attracted 12,095 entries to the $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and another 843 entries were collected before the start of Day 2. With 9,986 unique players reentering 2,952 times, the total number of entries tallied up to 12,938 to get to a whopping prize pool of $6,469,000 in the end. Claiming the D...

At 6:05 p.m. GMT, Day 3 of the PokerStars Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] will resume with 16 players out of 12,938 entries coming back to face each other for a bigger share of the burly $6,469,000 prize pool. They have all secured at least $19,765 but will all be focusing on that first-place prize of $818,484. Narrowly leading the pack today is Polands "DrawindDead" with 41,507,102 which is worth 69 big blinds with "Gwolde" from the Netherlands with 41,155,298 followi...

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off into the sunset empty handed. that will do it for us on this he had disof the best of the big game. any closing notes? >> i think maybe next season we should get some seatbelts installed in those chairs. >> buckle up for safety. so for joe stapleton and our entire big game team, im chris rose reminding you that if you want to play here on the big game, just log on to pokerstars.net. there are pre-qualifying tournaments every day. well see you next time. >> i have a bad feeling abou...

so far. up over 130 grand. >> some guy wearing a phil hellmuth disguise played his cards up to a $72,000. >> antoine yes and tony g. have ground to make up. >> that twas last hand of the night. russ, you are back over positive. feeling good? >> absolutely. it is a good thing. >> phil, jason? >> i dont know about killing it but he is killing it. >> you are racking in the pot. >> he wins every hand he plays. >> plays two hands and wins them both. like it is nothing. >> all right, guys. t...

>> well, so easy to do in the hold ems. not that many people. right? >> im going to raise the pot. what is it? 32? >> 36. >> 36. all right. >> phil raises to 3,600. >> some light again from early position. >> king-queen off suit. >> jason hasnt been at the table long but might be camping on to phils new-found agres. >> on the button. reraises to 11,500. >> reraise there. queen-5 suited for donny stern. >> looks lie don s like donny m to something. knows he may have likely to have raced...

>> bet on it. >> no. >> we had predictions. >> well with, that, donny stern is now in profitville. phil and daniel also solid nights. eugene is only down a c note. and continues to have not such a great week and andre hasnt stopped to pick up chips but failed to capitalize. well, a loose cannon andre didnt make up ground tonight. meanwhile, the young ones at the table are starting to get busy. how would it all play out? come back tomorrow night and see the battle continue. remember i...