Junior "Melo Jr" Melo raised to 70,000 from the button and Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis made the call in the big blind.
The flop came 
, Veldhuis check-called the 40,000 bet of Melo.
They both checked through the 
on the turn to the 
on the river. Veldhuis shoved with the bigger stack and Melo made the call for the 360,542 he had behind. Melo held 
for trips but Veldhuis had 
for the straight and the knockout to his name.
Level: 24
Blinds: 17,500/35,000
Ante: 4,500
"ddonkat" raised to 60,000 from under the gun and Jakob "Succeeed" Miegel shoved from the button for 520,518. "Belqi" four-bet shoved from the big blind for 832,507 for "Ddonkat" to give up on the hand and get out of their way.
Jakob "Succeeed" Miegel: 
"Belqi":
The board ran out 
to not bring any help to Miegel as he was eliminated in 121st place.
"Aleks Better" started the day as the shortest stack but had made bit of a comeback when they shoved from the middle position for 354,246 and was called by "Zar77262" with the bigger stack in the cutoff while the rest folded.
"Aleks Better": 
"Zar77262":
The board ran out 
for "Zar77262" to river a set of tens to send "Aleks Better" to the rail.
Level: 23
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 3,750
"TIETYMM" raised t 50,088 from under the gun and "adamd1987" shoved from the hijack for 296,176 for the action to fold back to "TIETYMM" who made the call with the bigger stack.
"adamd1987":
"TIETYMM": 
The board ran out 
for "TIETYMM" to flop a pair of kings to score an elimination to their name.
When a bubble bursts, a slew of eliminations normally come in immediately after. As Day 1 ended as soon as it burst, the slew of eliminations are coming in fast and furiously right now and these are the ones who left the field during the first few minutes of the tournament.
The 159 players have returned to play down to a final table today and the cards are being dealt right now.
Level: 22
Blinds: 12,500/25,000
Ante: 3,250
Day 2 of the 2020 PokerStars Stadium Series Freezeout Weekly Final - High: $1,050 NLHE restarts at 7:05 CEST with 159 players out of 1,347 entries returning to battle it out for a bigger share of the $1,500,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Coming back on Day 2 with the chip lead is Brazil's Luan "Pseudo Fruto" Felipe with 3,166,069 in chips. He is followed by Canada's Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur with 3,024,658. "Valenoze" (2,840,308), Tatiana "Mysters_Y" Barausova (2,751,930), and Marc "14alonso14" Macdonnell (2,261,064) complete the top 5 in the counts.
But there are still many more familiar names who will be taking their seats at the start of the day, players like Vlada "Vlada2108" Stojanovic, Damian "pampa27" Salas, Alisson "heyalisson" Piekazewicz, Renato "bauruzito" Valentim, Teun "tinnoemulder" Mulder, Sebastian "sebasnato" Toro, Daniel "Razer2311" Rezaei, Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson, Dinesh "nastyminder" Alt, and Marc "Rowniwn" Radgen can all be found at the top of the chip counts.
PokerStars Team Online members and streamers Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis (882,947) and Ben "Spraggy" Spraggg (350,008) will be back on the Twitch streets with YouTuber Brian "TrueGeordieTG" Davis (172,594) back in action too.
When the players return on Monday, July 20 at 7:05 CEST, they will finish the remainder of Level 22 which features a small blind of 12,500, a big blind of 25,000, and a running ante of 3,250. Level duration will remain at 20 minutes until there are 40 players left and then increased. Play will continue until the final table of nine players has been reached.
PokerNews will be right here to bring you all the action on the road to the final table so follow along.
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