Joni Jouhkimainen
It took a little over nine hours of play to whittle a field of 257 entrants down to a final table of eight in
SCOOP-33-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller Club SE], $1M Gtd . Leading the field into the final day is
Joni bustoville Jouhkimainen, who had a string of knockouts once the bubble burst to propel him to the top spot. Of the 257 entrants, 163 players and 94 re-entries helped build a prize pool of $1,285,000, well past the juicy $1,000,000 guarantee put up by PokerStars.
Jouhkimainen, who boasts just a hair under $4 million in Hendon Mob reported tournament earnings, started his streak by knocking out
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