The Blowout Series Has Another Big Blowout Today; $530 NLHE Starts at 6:05 PM GMT
At 6.05 p.m. GMT, Day 1 of the Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] is set to start with another weekly tournament featuring a brilliant $5,000,000 prize pool.
"pilaa" won the first event for $485,827 which had a $109 buy-in while Cosmin "UnHuman3" Voinea took down the $209 buy-in event for $632,426 after a six-way deal. Who will become the third winner of this exciting new series by PokerStars?
The players 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 11 at 6:10 p.m. GMT. Players can reenter up to three times if things go awry during any of their earlier 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 12 minutes and increase to 15 once there are 80 players left, similar to last week's event.
Once the field is reduced to 16 players, Day 2 will break for Day 2 and the level duration will go up again to 25 minutes this time. On Day 3, play will continue until a new champion has been crowned with the action with hole cards coverage on the PokerStars Twitch channel.
PokerNews will be there from the first beep until the Day 1 chip leader has been found so stick around for today's live coverage.
, it was checked to "Sayin83" who shoved for 23,942 in the first hand of the night which only "norika71" called with the same exact stack.
on the turn and the 
on the river to keep "Sayin83" ahead and eliminate 
, "acekicker342" checked, "WSlevinW" bet 360 and "pascher82" was the only one to make the call.
and "WSlevinW" bet 1,012 for "pascher82" to call again.
and "WSlevinW" shoved for 23,557 which "pascher82" called with the bigger stack. "WSlevinW" held the 
for the straight but "pascher82" had hit the runner-runner flush to bust "WSlevinW".
and "evgenij_d_m" shoved for 12,519 for "Mofo0637" to make the call with the bigger stack.
for "clapjkspit" to bust with the kings as "medla1978" rivered the top pair.
, "Kyleddd" checked and Hand continued with a bet of 660 which "Kyleddd" called.
and "Kyleddd" checked for the last time. Hand shoved for 5,901 for "Kyleddd" to call. Hand tabled the 
, it was checked to Bechrakis who continued with a bet of 3,000. Colillas raised to 8,500 for the big blind to fold. BEchrakis reraised to put Colillas all-in who called for the 38,803 he had behind.
on the turn and the 
for "BraisedBeef" to hold with the higher kicker to eliminate Akkari.
