PokerStars Blowout Series shuffles up and deals on Sunday evening.
The Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] sees the first cards pitched at 6:05 p.m. GMT on January 10 and it will be nothing short of huge.
The Big Blowout! features a massive
$5 million guaranteed prize pool so will attract some of the worldâs best players to the PokerStars virtual felt. It commands a $530 buy-in and for that princely sum you receive 25,000 chips and to a 20-minute clock where the blinds start at 50/100/12a.
PokerStars allows up to three re-entries during the late registration period, which is open for 24 hours, right up to the start of Day 2. The tournament breaks after the conclusion of the 17th level and resumes at 6:10 p.m. on January 11. Anyone making it through to Day 2 then continues the grind until only 16 players remain before returning to the action at 6:05 p.m. GMT on January 12 to crown a champion.
Francis Cruz finished in fifteenth place for $15,272
That bubble ended up lasting almost 40 minutes with several big pots and double-ups taking place before â¬plov2 bubbled with ace-jack to the ace-ten of Voinea. The turn on the turn got the tournament down to the final table with Voinea holding more than twice as many chips as Olegent in second place.
The Final Table Action
It would take about fifteen minutes before Cornea got his last chips in against W.Slomczynski and couldn t win. Ten minutes later, DoEasyMoney was dusted off by Hepburn1 who then fell soon after when they ran their queens into the aces of Jepser8 .
After just over four hours of play, the third and final day of the
PokerStars Blowout Series: $215 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] has come to an end with Day 2 chip leader
Cosmin UnHuman3 Voinea coming out victorious after busting both Flush098765 and W.Slomczynski in the final hand of the night.
A six-way deal was agreed upon so Voinea claimed the $50,000 on top for the winner to claim
$456,346 for the win out of the
$6,371,000 prize pool which was collected by the 31,855 entries.
Voinea has collected $32,695 in live tournament cashes according to
The Hendon Mob but showed his strength on the online felt. He came into the day with a big chip lead and even though he lost it for a bit, in the end, he claimed it back and then finished it off.
PokerStars with 27 titles claimed.
The festival comes with a whopping $60 million guaranteed across 88 events, with the customary PokerStars Low, Medium, and High tiers.
There were 26 individual winners during the first four days of the festival with Germany s Stiffler8818 already impressively becoming the first two-time Blowout Series champion.
Netherlands
Blowout Series: $109 NLHE â The Big Blowout! for a whopping $381,174.
Meanwhile, countrymate
Teun tinnoemulder Mulder notched a big win of his own after claiming the title in the Blowout Series 02-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller] for $211,740.
Other known players to win early titles included
Jerry Perrymerjsen Odeen,
After almost six hours on Day 3, the
madiite , and FAT3333 falling before the first break of the day. Forty minutes later, Day 2 chip leader,
Patrick pads1161 Leonard was eliminated by pilaa for a chip lead pot when he four-bet shoved with ace-king and was looked up by the latter who held pocket queens. The two queens on the flop immediately dashed any hopes Leonard held to double up and to see him bust in fifteenth place.
Day 2 chip leader Patrick Leonard finished in 15th place for $11,732
Egor Egor699 Boriskin fell to cram66 before gab0120 . In the end, it would be Dannywilbier who would bubble the final table when they put their tournament life at risk with ace-eight and was called by by Ponath who held pocket eights.