PokerStars EPT Season: “lenonss” Wins $22 $500,000 EPT Mystery Special For a Total of $16,913.65

How The Day Started

Play resumed at 6 p.m. on Monday GMT with 179 left battling it out for the title and the remaining bounties. Players also found an increase in the blind level duration, increasing from 12 minutes to 15 minutes apiece. The big ones had all found homes in the previous day’s play, with Estonian player “UMC_MJ” pulling the biggest bounty of them all – $50,000. They departed in 211th on Day 1, and the two $10,000 bounties were added to the bankrolls of Ukrainian “FL_RAP” (1,018th – $53.97) and “shlemanas” of Denmark (296th – $75.30), who will be very thankful for firing a second bullet at this tournament. Of the $2,000 bounty recipients, only three remain in the field. Germany’s “$teve45” (145th – 2,490,318 chips), Canada’s “HARDPHIL77” (98th – 4,377,816), and Greece’s “Sharpblade91” (84th – 4,778,986) all pulled from the third biggest bounty selection. Brazilian player “Divx77” laid claim to the final $2,000 bounty, before departing in 19th for $3,061.52 total.

It was a Brazilian podium to kick off proceedings, and the Days chip-leader “burianjpb” ended up hitting the showers in 43rd place, finishing the tournament with a total score of $1,644.60. Second in chips “bixotry” faired better in the rankings than his compatriot, but not in the total score department, and ended up cashing in 29th place for $665.29. “yuriVsa finished in 23rd for $733.98. Bust-outs came at a decent rate to kick off the day, as there were short stacks that scraped through to Day 2 in need of a crucial spin-up.

Big Bounty Winners

Username	Country	Amount ($)
UMC_MJ		$50,104.10
FL_RAP		$10,288.50
shlemanas [2]		$10,011.92
Divx77		$2,663.67
$teve45		$2,344.94
maxe777		$2,264.66
Sharpblade91 [2]		$2,208.20
revenge1994		$2,184.39
HITman7682		$2,184.39
VNCSCS		$2,184.38

Final Table

Of the top 10 going into Day 2, only two players made the final table: “aleks207” from Uzbekistan and “ElCarrasco1” from Germany. Another member of the strong Brazilian contingent on PokerStars, BIELXXT96, was the victim of the final table bubble, but did walk away with a healthy score of $2,053.33 for their efforts. “ElCarrasco1” came into the day fifth in chips and finished sixth, for a total score of $4,453.21 for their deep run. “aleks207” moved up the rankings, however, starting the day in eighth and making it to second place. However, the Uzbek national was the tournament’s biggest winner, as they were the beneficiary of being the largest stack when the final three agreed on an ICM deal. “aleks207” scored a total of $17,393.05 for the second-place finish, and third-place finisher “baozinq1” secured $16,764.71.

Final Table Payouts

Rank	Player	Bounty ($)	Results ($)
1	lenonss	$1,440.22	$15,473.43
2	aleks207	$440.22	$16,942.83
3	baoziang1	$921.93	$15,842.78
4	FlipMyJinx [3]	$806.35	$7,967.02
5	Sntri	$791.57	$5,710.65
6	ElCarrasco1	$359.94	$4,093.27
7	PansaRN	$416.40	$2,933.97
8	Stepa29031990 [2]	$300.40	$2,103.00
9	Birdman13131 [2]	$972.87	$1,507.37

What’s Next?

The EPT Season may be drawing to a close on PokerStars, but there are still more exciting tournaments to come at low price points to get involved with over this weekend’s tournament schedule.

That’s all for now, folks. Good luck at the tables. Until next time.