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 who reentered 1,630 times. This created a whopping
$6,922,000 prize pool for 975 players to get paid. The nine remaining players have secured at least $57,841 but will all be eyeing up that amazing
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 didn t 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 Jameslost her last few chips when she held pocket tens and ran them into the ace-queen of her opponent.
Ben Spraggy Spragglost his shortstack too but his hole cards were unfortunately unknown.
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 Day 2 chip lead is DrawindDead from Poland with 41,507,102 which is worth 69 big blinds when the players come back for Day 3. They are followed closely on their heels by
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 Poland s DrawindDead with 41,507,102 which is worth 69 big blinds with Gwolde from the Netherlands with 41,155,298 following them. If you then look at the top five, you can find two familiar names joining them:
Mathias mdf92 Duarte (35,414,899) and
Sami Lrslzk Kelopuro (25,504,194) finished in third and fourth place yesterday with