Blowout Series: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!], $5M Gtd. Day 1 | 2020 PokerStars Blowout Series

01-17-2021 19:12 UTC

"Lassiole" Turns the Broadway Against "lpzap"

Shirley Ang

Level 3 : 75/150, 20 ante

"lpzap" raised to 450 from the cutoff and was called by "Lassiole" on the button while the blinds folded.

The flop came , "lpzap" continued with a bet of 450 for "Lassiole" to call.

The turn was the and "lpzap" bet 900 for "Lassiole" to raise it up to 2,994. "lpzap" responded with a reraise to 5,550 and "Lassiole" called.

The river completed the board with the and "lpzap" shoved for 31,590. "Lassiole" called with the bigger stack and the for the turned Broadway to eliminate "lpzap" who held the for top pair.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lassiole	90,653
Carter "cswidler" Swidler	15,264 -9,736	-9,736
lpzap	Busted

01-17-2021 18:44 UTC

Veldhuis Loses All With and Against Kings

Shirley Ang

Level 2 : 60/120, 15 ante

Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis had raised to 300 from the early position at the end of the first level and "pokedawa" three-bet to 1,300 on his direct left for the action to fold back to Veldhuis who four-bet to 4,000. "pokedawa" five-bet to 10,300 for Veldhuis to six-bet shove with the bigger stack. "pokedawa" called for the 22,988 they had behind.

"pokedawa":
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis:

The board ran out for "pokedawa" to hold with the aces.

Veldhuis held on to his shortened stack for a while but in the end, he raised to 246 from the hijack and "geezitnoo" three-bet to 1,038 from the button. The blinds folded and Veldhuis four-bet pushed for 4,565 which "geezitnoo" called.

Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis:
"geezitnoo":

The board ran out for "geezitnoo" to hold with the kings to eliminate the Team PokerStars member.

Player	Chips	Progress
pokedawa	46,633
geezitnoo	34,444
marin6023	Busted
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis	Busted

01-17-2021 18:12 UTC

"woooras" Scores First Elimination of the Day

Shirley Ang

Level 1 : 50/100, 12 ante

"woooras" limped in from the hijack and "loremipsumdo" raised to 444 from the button. "MobileFace" three-bet shoved for 24,964 from the big blind for "woooras" to reshove for 25,698 to get the other player out of the way.

"MobileFace":
"woooras":

The board ran out for "MobileFace" to not hit as "w0ooras" had flopped a pair of sixes and improved to trips on the river to eliminate "MobileFace" as the first player of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
woooras	51,240 51,240	51,240
MobileFace	Busted

01-17-2021 17:01 UTC

The PokerStars Blowout Series: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] Commences at 6:05 PM GMT

Shirley Ang

At 6.05 p.m. GMT, Day 1 of the PokerStars Blowout Series: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] is set to start the last of the Big Blowouts of this festival with another whopping$5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Event 1 with a buy-in of $109 was won by "pilaa" for $485,827 and Cosmin "UnHuman3" Voinea took down the $215 buy-in event for $632,426 after negotiating a six-way deal. But it would be "Gwolde" who would lay claim to the biggest prize to date in the Big Blowouts with $721,692 after a heads-up deal last Monday.

Everyone who coughs up the $1,050 buy-in will get 25,000 chips in their starting stacks and play 20-minute levels on Day 1. Play will end when 17 levels have been played through to break for Day 2 on Monday, January 18 at 6:10 p.m. GMT. Players can reenter up to three times if things go wrong with any of their previous bullets.

Late registration will be possible for 24 hours once the tournament has started, so until 6:05 p.m. GMT, five minutes before the start of Day 2. The level duration for Day 2 will be reduced to 15 minutes and once the field is reduced to 9 players, Day 2 will break for the final table and the level duration will go up to 30 minutes.

On Day 3, play will continue until a new champion has been crowned with hole cards coverage on the PokerStars Twitch channel and commentary provided by James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton.

PokerNews will be there from the first raise until the final river so follow along with all the live updates right here.