The PokerStars Blowout Series ‘Big Blowout’ $1,050 buy-in no-limit maintain’em eight-max occasion drew a large subject of 6,922 complete entries, blowing away the $5,000,000 assure to create a closing prize pool of $6,922,000. In the tip, it was Lithuanian-based ‘arbaarba’ who got here out on prime, incomes $739,976 and the title after hanging a deal throughout three-handed play.
The prime 975 finishers made the cash on this event, with a min-cash being value $2,264. Various notables made the cash solely to fall wanting the ultimate desk, together with Teun ‘tinnoemulder’ Mulder (thirty seventh – $9,845), Lex Veldhuis (thirtieth – $14,029), and 2016 World Series of Poker essential occasion sixth-place finisher Kenny ‘SpaceyFCB’ Hallaert (twenty second – $19,991).
The closing day started with ‘arbaarba’ holding the chip lead among the many closing 9 gamers. They prolonged their benefit early by cracking the pocket aces of ‘Gordon_dReid’ with pocket tens to ship their Canadian opponent packing in ninth place ($57,841).
Fernando ‘fviana’ Viana overtook the lead by knocking out ‘xMFPx’ in eighth place ($82,422), however ‘arbaarba’ received a flip quickly after that with A-Ok in opposition to the pocket queens of ‘adkaf’ to regain the highest spot. ‘adkaf’ earned $117,448 because the seventh-place finisher.
Viana earned two of the following three bustouts to take the lead once more heading into three-handed motion. After Eike ‘Mr. Havener’ Onodera fell in sixth place ($167,361), Viana eradicated Vlad ‘dariepoker’ Darie (fifth – $238,483) and ‘milanov888’ (4th – $339,831) to chip as much as 81,985,140. ‘arbaarba’ had the second-largest stack with 51,918,034, whereas Lonnie ‘thx4urm0n3y’ Hallett sat with 39,146,826.
The motion was paused at that time for the ultimate three to debate a deal. They finally put aside $50,000 and the title for the winner, whereas dividing up the remaining prize pool based mostly on ICM. Hallet doubled up by means of Viana with pocket fours beating A-Ok, overtaking the lead within the course of. ‘arbaarba’ received an enormous hand with a flush in opposition to Hallet’s journey aces, although, leaving Hallett on fumes. He was eradicated shortly after that in third place, incomes $646,189 for his deep run.
Heads-up play started with ‘arbaarba’ holding roughly a 4.5:1 chip lead over Viana. In the ultimate hand, ‘arbaarba’ four-bet shoved with 7
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and Viana known as for his event life with A9. The board ran out Ok
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7A3 and ‘arbaarba’ secured the pot and the title with a set of sevens. Viana earned $771,416 because the second-place finisher.
Here is a take a look at the payouts awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | ‘arbaarba’ | $739,976* |
| 2 | Fernando ‘fviana’ Viana | $771,416* |
| 3 | Lonnie ‘thx4urm0n3y’ Hallett | $646,189* |
| 4 | ‘milanov888’ | $339,831 |
| 5 | Vlad ‘dariepoker’ Darie | $238,483 |
| 6 | Eike ‘Mr. Havener’ Onodera | $167,361 |
| 7 | ‘adkaf’ | $117,448 |
| 8 | ‘xMFPx’ | $82,422 |
| 9 | ‘Gordon_dReid’ | $57,841 |
*Indicates a deal was made to re-distribute the prize pool
