$2.5M Gtd Monster Series Day 2: South Americans Running Hot

Monster Series Day 2 saw another 12 champions crowned as those who reached the money places and sent opponents to the showers in the PKO events shared another $249,262. The biggest win on Monster Series Day 2 went to Uruguay’s “luchokoma17” who took down the $75,000 guaranteed PKO event, but how much did they walk away with? Let’s find out.

$2.5M Gtd Monster Series: The Story So Far

Events completed: 30
Events remaining: 78
Prize money awarded: $898,858

$2.5M Gtd Monster Series Day 2 Recap

Monster Series #08-H: $75K Gtd 6-Max PKO

Entries: 1,294
Buy-in: $55
Prize pool: $75,000
Places paid: 180

The Monster Series #08-H: $75K Gtd 6-Max PKO event drew in a crowd of 1,294 and half of the $75,000 prize pool was shared among the top 180 finishers with the other half distributed as bounties.

Uruguay’s “luchokoma17” was the biggest winner on the night, finishing on top to claim the $5,031 first place prize plus an additional $4,814 from the bounty prize pool. Only two other players at the six-handed final table won four-figures worth of bounties.

They were the fifth-place finisher “Atlantida77” of Russia who netted $1,028 from the bounty prize pool in addition to their $1,746 prize, and “Regis_R69” of Brazil whose $3,791 main prize pool haul was bolstered by $1,167 from the bounty prize pool.

Monster Series #07-H: $50K Gtd 6-Max Deepstack

Entries: 969
Buy-in: $55
Prize pool: $50,000
Places paid: 132

Almost 1,000 players bought into the Monster Series #07-H: $50K Gtd 6-Max Deepstack event on Monster Series Day 2, with a field of 969 sharing $50,000.

The six finalists won at least $1,282, the prize given to Canada’s “XxCamoGhostxX” who fell in sixth place. Next to bust was “ThezeNuts” of Germany who banked $2,075 before “grebu_lave” won $3,175 from their Russian home.

“KitaroBR” from Brazil was the penultimate elimination, third place being worth $4,625. This meant “broooooooooo” of Canada and Brazil’s “Psilocybe” locked horns for the title of champion and the lion’s share of the prize pool. The eventual winner was the latter and the Brazilian netted $8,375 leaving their Canadian opponent to add $6,250 to their partypoker bankroll.

Monster Series #10-H: $25K Gtd 6-Max PKO Fast

Entries: 1,072
Buy-in: $33
Prize pool: $33,768
Places paid: 144

Monster Series Day 2 also saw the $33 buy-in Monster Series #10-H: $25K Gtd 6-Max PKO Fast event drew in 1,072 entries to create a $33,768 prize pool.

The largest slice of that fund is now in the partypoker account of Austrian grinder “Brauni22” who defeated “HeartSaysRich” of Croatia heads-up. Brauni22’s prize was made up of a $2,097 first place prize and $2,065 from the bounty prize pool. Our runner-up scooped $383 worth of scalps to add to their $2,093 second-place prize.

Again, Brazil had representatives at the final table, with “royalmaf67” finishing in third place for $1,596 and $757, and “Imiotto88” busting in fourth place for a haul worth $1,102 and $411.

$2.5M Gtd Monster Series Day 2 Results

*includes bounty payments

$2.5M Gtd Monster Series Day 3 Schedule

Tuesday 4th June sees another 12 Monster Series events, all of which are eight-max, scheduled that have combined guarantees worth $240,000. Check out the full listing of events in the table below:

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