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
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.
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.
After almost four hours of play on Day 3 of the
PokerStars Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!], the second Big Blowout title has been captured for the Netherlands as Gwolde defeated
The Dutch player laid claim to
$721,692 for their victory in the 12,938-strong entry field which had a prize pool of
$6,469,000 which easily surpassed the
$5,000,000 that was set for this tournament. Gwolde is no stranger to success on the PokerStars tables as they have won the
Sunday Kickoff in the past for example. The Dutch player also came out victorious in
Event 20-M: $109 NLHE Deep Stacks Freezeout on January 3 for $35,856 so must be having a great start of 2021 on the PokerStars virtual tables.
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.