Niklas Astedt wins Bounty Builder event for $2 100
The first week of the Bounty Builder Series at PokerStars is drawing to a close. Yesterday, several tournaments took place as part of the Bounty Builder series, but the most notable was Event 053 worth $2 100. There were 183 entries, which allowed to form a prize pool of $366 000. The well-known Swedish poker professional Niklas "lena900" Astedt was able to take down the given tournament.
For the first place, he received $32 200 in prize money and $39 000 as a bounty. In heads-up, Niklas was fighting against the Russian poker player under the ROUNDSKY nickname. The tournament runner-up earned $32 000 (prize money) and $13 800 (bounty).
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The top three was closed by the Lithuanian player, performing online under the "bigbadwolfLT" screen name. As a result, the guy was awarded $21 900 + $5 000 (bounty) for finishing third.
The Bounty Builder will run till February 16. The Main Event with $2 500 000 GTD is to be held on the last day of the series.