640 Players Return for Day 2 of the PokerStars 2020 SCOOP 96-M: $530 Main Event 2nd Chance
Day 2 of the PokerStars 2020 SCOOP 96-M: $530 Main Event 2nd Chance will restart at 1:05 p.m EST with 640 players out of 4,899 entries returning to the virtual tables to battle it out for their share of the whopping $2,449,500 prize pool. The bubble is expected to burst within the first hour as only 607 of the returning players will be adding at least $1,122 to their bankroll with the eventual champion walking away with $348,643 on Tuesday, May 26.
Leading this huge pack of players into Day 2 is Germany's "Markudre" with 2,778,816 in chips. They are followed by two well-known players which are Brazil's Pablo "pabritz" Brito (2,617,081) and Ivan "Negriin" Luca (2,554,624) from Argentina. The top five of the leaderboard is completed with "gaul17" with 2,423,399 and "MezuuÜuuT" with 2,416,141.
Christian "ChristianBR4" Almeida, Geovanne "Grande_Prego" Pereira, Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur, Belarmino "PaGaOVelhinho" de Souza, Viktor "papan9_p$" Ustimov, Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns, Alejandro "Nextlevelftp" Lococo, Brunno "botteonpoker" Botteon, Adrian "Amadi_17" Mateos, Pascal "Pass_72" Lefrancois, Daan "DaanOss" Mulders, Vlad "dariepoker" Darie, Ismael "Isidinho" Bojang, and Steven "SvZff" van Zadelhoff are also still in the running with top 200 stacks.
The ten remaining minutes of Level 23 need to be finished when the players return before they can start a new level. Level 23 has a small blind of 8,000, a big blind of 16,000, and a running ante of 2,000. The level duration is scheduled to remain at 20 minutes each throughout the tournament according to the tournament lobby and Day 2 will end when there are 16 players left.
PokerNews will be there to follow all the action from the bubble until the final two tables have been reached so stick around.
, "DeLaBijen" check-raised the 48,000 continuation-bet of Brito to 156,640. Brito reraised for "DeLaBijen" to make the call for the 439,205 they had behind.
came on the turn before the 
completed the board to double them up.
for the set of tens to double up with.
, "Tenebrus321" continued with a bet of 480,000 which was called.
and "Tenebrus321" barreled a bet of 1,293,600 into the pot which "boss_bobo" called.
and "Tenebrus321" shoved with the bigger stack. "boss-bobo" called for the 3,455,882 they had behind with 
for the full house to see it was good as "Tenebrus321" tabled 
, "cmontopdeck" check-raised the 544,600 continuation-bet of "Swaggadon" to 1,936,053 who then reraised to 7,840,000, keeping 843,625 behind. "cmontopdeck" shoved and "Swaggadon" called for the remainder of their stack.
on the river for "cmontopdeck" to hold with the flopped two pair to bust "Swaggadon".
for the pair of kings on the board with the ace-kicker but "serrazina11" held 
