Who Will Make the Final Table of the PokerStars 74-M: $1,050 Main Event?
At 1:05 p.m. EST, Day 3 of the PokerStars 2020 SCOOP 74-M: $ 1,050 Main Event restarts with 79 players out of 6,475 entries returning to battle it out to the final table. They will all be playing for a bigger share of the amazing $6,475,000 prize pool. The winner will walk away on Wednesday, May 20 $920,067 richer.
Coming back today with the chip lead is Austria's "Tydarax" with 21,747,150. They are closely followed by China's "xiaohuangzai" who finished Day 2 with 21,201,685. The top five is completed by Aris "Pokerfan89Gr" Tavris (20,622,427), "GeniusMax69" (19,659,038), and "markan030700" (16,806,651).
But familiar names like Michael "mczhang" Zhang, Joao "HayashiJoão" Hayashi, Denis "aDrENalin710" Strebkov, Joao "titlinha" Gomides, Michael "merla888" Gathy, Christopher "lissi stinkt" Frank, Luis Gustavo "gkamei09" Kamei, Matheus "mpZancan" Zancan, Preben "prebz" Stokkan, Akseli "Timonpoika" Paalanen, Jon "luckyfish89" Clark, David "MissOracle" Yan, Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski, Matas "bebaimis777" Cimbolas, Stevan "random_chu" Chew, Laszlo "omaha4rollz" Bujtas, Matheus "zilbee" Zilberknop, Ismael "Isidinho" Bojang, Clark "snake8484" Hamagami, Pablo "elmelogno4" Melogno, Jonathan "Proudflop" Proudfoot, Luis "luisdono" Dono, Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur, and Luigi "Il-Giuglia" D'Alterio are still in the tournament too so for whoever get's through to the final table, it won't be an easy road.
All players have already secured $6,229 with a pay jump coming up when there are 71 players left. When play resumes, they will finish the minutes which are left of Level 30 which features a small blind of 100,000, big blind of 200,000, and a big blind ante of 25,000. The level duration will remain at 20 minutes each and play will halt when there are nine players left.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be there from the first shuffle until the final table has been reached so keep reading the updates as they come in.
flop to the 
on the turn. "Tydarax" checked again and "Those_Bros" bet 5,000,000 for "Tydarax" to shove with the bigger stack. "Those_Bros" called for the 10,846,688 they had behind.
to keep "Those_Bros" ahead and double them up to the chip lead.
to not help Bujtas as he was eliminated in the 56th place.
. Zhang continued with a bet of 1,575,000 which Hayashi called. 
, Zhang bet 3,450,000, keeping 18,921 behind and was called. Zhang tabled 
for the bluff for Hayashi to scoop the pot with 
for the flopped top pair. 
, "GeniusMax69" check-folded to the 1,220,980 continuation-bet of Hayashi.
on the turn and the 
on the river to bust Zhang in 48th place.
, Tavris continued with a bet of 4,550,000 for "lit-cofy" to shove for 17,090,517 which Tavris called with the slightly bigger stack.
on the turn and the 
for the pair of nines and open-ended straight draw while Rezaei had 
for the set of sixes.
for "Oledjan" to hold with the higher pocket pair for two pair to double up for the chip lead.
