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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.
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.
Zodiac tournaments for another $9,200 before finishing third in the
$109 Mega Deep for a $10,000 addition to his bankroll.
The best was yet to come in the PokerStars Big Blowout event where Hardcastle finished Day 1 in 11th place with 27 players remaining.
Leonard Bows Out To Quads
Patrick Leonard ran into quads
Fellow Brit
Patrick âpads1161â Leonard started Day 2 with the chip lead but could only muster a 15th place finish. He came unstuck during the 1,000,000/2,000,000/250,000a level when he raised to 4,200,000 from late position, Hardcastle called in the small blind and
âpilaaâ raised to 16,000,000 from the big blind. Leonard responded with a shove for 85,479,390, Hardcastle ducked out of the way but pilaa called.