16 Players Return at 6:05 PM GMT to Battle for the PokerStars Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] Title

At 6:05 p.m. GMT, Day 3 of the PokerStars Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] will resume with 16 players out of 12,938 entries coming back to face each other for a bigger share of the burly $6,469,000 prize pool. They have all secured at least $19,765 but will all be focusing on that first-place prize of $818,484.

Narrowly leading the pack today is Poland's "DrawindDead" with 41,507,102 which is worth 69 big blinds with "Gwolde" from the Netherlands with 41,155,298 following them. If you then look at the top five, you can find two familiar names joining them: Mathias "mdf92" Duarte (35,414,899) and Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro (25,504,194) finished in third and fourth place yesterday with "Uivelo88" (25,344,164) in fifth with an above-average stack.

"Uivelo88", "end2end17", Andrew "dawhiteninja" Wool, "Kudgel", "Escapemissio", "sp3edy14", "Pharmo81", "taartjekomt", "Aalexxs", Andras "probirs" Nemeth, "FivebetGAMER", and Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur will also be back in the fray for Day 3.

Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	"DrawindDead"	Poland	41,507,102	69
2	"Gwolde"	Netherlands	41,155,298	69
3	Mathias "mdf92" Duarte	Uruguay	35,414,899	59
4	Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro	Finland	25,504,194	43
5	"Uivelo88"	Finland	25,344,164	42
6	"end2end17"	Canada	20,103,700	34
7	Andrew "dawhiteninja" Wool	United Kingdom	17,795,264	30
8	"Kudgel"	Germany	16,115,984	27
9	"Escapemissio"	United Kingdom	15,305,852	26
10	"sp3edy14"	Ireland	14,990,223	25

When play resumes, the 16 remaining players will finish Level 51 which features a small blind of 300,000, a big blind of 600,000, and a running ante of 75,000. Once that is done, the level duration will increase to 25-minutes each and play will continue until a new champion has been crowned.

The PokerStars Twitch Stream will be live too to bring you cards-up coverage with commentary provided by James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton with a 30-minute security delay.

PokerNews will be here to bring you all the live updates of all the action so make sure to follow along until one player is left.

This is what they are all still playing for: