2020 PokerStars Blowout Series

Day 2 of the PokerStars Blowout Series: $215 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] has come to an end after more than eight hours of play with 23 players making it through to the final day. They have all secured at least $10,887 out of the $6,371,000 prize pool but are all looking to grab that first-place prize of $632,426.

There were 29,463 entries on Day 1 and with the late registration and reentry period open until the delayed start of Day 2, another 2,392 were collected. The 23,994 unique players reentered 7,861 times to get to 31,855 entries in total and 4,463 of them got paid. No hand-for-hand play was needed for the bubble to burst in this big field.

Coming back for the final day with the chip lead is Romania's "UnHuman3" with a whopping 122,991,718 in chips, worth 154 big blinds when play resumes. They aren't the only Romanian players left in the field as "Sergiu "seserman01" Cornea" (55,211,856) and "Eduardnho11" (44,417,889) join them in the top five. The players preventing them from forming a top three are "Olegent" (77,440,795) and "DoEasyMoney" (62,808,998).

"UnHuman3" claimed the chip lead in the latter stages of the tournament after taking out Guilherme "gui2x" Oliveira and Rafael "RafaCorreaBR" Correa in quick succession but "€plov2" and Gustavo "gremistaAK" Pinto are still left in the running for Brazil.

Day 1 chip leader "Magdebob1993" had a bit of a swingy day but managed to survive with 31,311,886 chips in the end to end in the middle of the pack. Not everyone was that lucky though, Tom "hitthehole" Middleton, Ryan "HITTHEPANDA" Franklin, Teun "tinnoemulder" Mulder, Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood, Antonio "Biodelic420" Henrique, and Tsolmon "tsoomoo89" Ochir all made the top 100 but not Day 3.

When play resumes at 6:05 p.m. GMT on Tuesday, January 5 for Day 3, the remaining players will finish Level 53 which features a small blind of 400,000, a big blind of 800,000, and a running ante of 100,000. Once 16 players are left, the level duration will increase to 20 minutes each and play will continue until a champion can be crowned.

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While "tobinater1" was eliminated over on one of the other tables, another hand was in progress before the tournament could be paused for Day 3.

"Olegent" had raised to 1,680,000 from the button and "Nutter17" had three-bet shoved for 7,702,611 from the big blind and was called by the bigger stack.

"Nutter17":
"Olegent":

The board ran out for both of them to turn the top pair but for "Nutter17" to bust in 24th place in the end just before the day ended.

The full chip counts and the recap are to follow.

"tobinater1" raised to 1,600,000 from the hijack and "Magdebob1993" three-bet shoved for 16,750,498 from the small blind. The big blind folded but "tobinater1" called for the 13,161,388 they had behind.

"tobinater1":
"Magdebob1993":

The board ran out to not help "tobinater1" as "Magdebob1993" held with the kings for two pair to get the field down to the final 24 players.

"UnHuman3" raised to 2,000,000 from under the gun and was called by Gustavo "gremistaAK" Pinto in the hijack. "lucyrosi" three-bet shoved from the button for 7,354,081 for the action to fold back to Pinto who made the call.

"lucyrosi":
Gustavo "gremistaAK" Pinto:

The board ran out for Pinto to turn the higher pair and even improve to a straight on the river to bust "lucyrosi".

Gustavo "gremistaAK" Pinto raised to 1,600,000 from under the gun and the action folded to "Spider91_PL" in the big blind who opted to defend.

The flop came , "Spider91_PL" check-shoved for 10,959,201 when Pinto continued with a bet of 1,360,000 who called with the bigger stack.

"Spider91_PL":
Gustavo "gremistaAK" Pinto:

"Spider91_PL" had flopped top pair but Pinto held the overpair.

The rest of the board was completed with the on the turn and the on the river for "Spider91_PL" to bust in 27th place.

"hosomattyo" shoved from the middle position for 4,893,796 for "Baroness1393" to three-bet shove for 12,467,145 from the hijack and the rest of the table to fold.

"hosomattyo":
"Baroness1393":

The board ran out for "hosomattyo" to bust with the lower kicker.

"deadfizh" raised from the small blind to 8,400,000, keeping only 77,400 behind and "Eduardnho11" three-bet shoved to be called for the rest.

"deadfizh":
"Eduardnho11":

The board ran out for "Eduardnho11" to hold with the pocket pair for the full house to bust "deadfizh" in 29th place.