Summary
The finale of the Blowout Series: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!], $5M Gtd event featured a heads-up battle between arbaarba and fviana. When the final cards were dealt, arbaarba earned $983,291.63 for the win, while fviana settled for a consolation prize of $690,040.33.
Quick Hits
- Members of PokerStake earned $1,949,009.13 of the $6,922,000.00 prize pool.
- The three highest ranking members of PokerStake at the time this tournament took place to cash in this tournament were botteonpoker (bbotteon), VladTheSlaye (Feero), and NL_Profit, who together cashed for $14,639.33.
- PokerStakers who reached the money in this tournament made the countries of Brazil and Slovakia proud, just to name a few.
- Non-PokerStakers at the final table combined for a total of $2,128,276.93.
- The average cash in this tournament was $7,099.49.