16 Players Return at 1:05 PM EST to Battle for the PokerStars SCOOP 96-M: $530 Main Event 2nd Chance Title
The final day of the PokerStars 2020 SCOOP 96-M: $530 Main Event 2nd Chance, starts at 1:05 p.m. EST with 16 players out of 4,899 entries returning to the virtual felt to battle it out for the first-place prize of $348,643. All 16 players have already claimed $8,419 for their efforts up till now but will all have set their targets on a bigger share of the $2,499,500 prize pool.
Coming back for Day 3 with the chip lead is "thx4urm0n3y" with 75,277,047 in chips, they are followed by Fabio "LFFF22" Freitas with 52,578,636 and Bradley "mrbradleyy" Harwood with 48,305,650 in the top three. With stacks above 20 million are "serrazina11" (45,067,065) ,"benderbei2" (41,692,601), "cmontopdeck" (29,868,188), "Anton720" (29,039,521), "AfRoBiZzLe!" (27,229,700), [n]"Jessofaces13"[/b] (24,313,780), "LuckyBet101" (23,575448), and Luuk "pokerkluka" Gieles (22,834,354).
And then there are five players left who have fewer than 30 big blinds at the start of the day: "galo_pb", "M4GPI3", "$ubuta1", "Leo "LeoFernandez" Fernandez", and Felipe "Carboneraa" Carbonera all have some work ahead of them today. But, anything can happen, a double-up at the start can propel any of them towards the top of the leader board again.
When the players return, they will finish the remainder of Level 44 which has a small blind of 350,000, a big blind of 700,000, and a running ante of 87,500. According to the tournament lobby, the level duration will remain at 20 minutes for each level with play continuing until the inaugural Main Event 2nd Chance champion has been found.
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