European Poker Tour London Main Event -- Day 2

On day 2 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour London main event, 380 players from an original field of 848 returned to play down to the money. They would have to get rid of 252 players to get to the first payout of £7,500, but this would not take too long as bust outs came at a fast and furious pace.

The list of those who would not be continuing the hunt for the £900,000 top prize on day 3 included WSOPE heads-up event runner-up Jim Collopy, EPT San Remo runner-up Jakob Carlsson, Quinn Do, Fabrice Soulier, David Ulliott, 2010 double WSOP bracelet winner Frank Kassela, Card Player publisher Barry Shulman, Ben Roberts, Peter Jetten, Allen Cunningham, Jonathan Aguiar, Jeffrey Lisandro, Neil Channing, Freddy Deeb, Team PokerStars Pro players Jan Heitmann, Barry Greenstein, and Liv Boeree, and Team PokerStars SportStar Boris Becker.

Still in with a fighting chance however are Phil Ivey, who had an up-and-down day, ending up mid-pack with a healthy enough chip stack, Irish Open champ James Mitchell, Friend of PokerStars Teddy Sherringham, 2010 WSOP bracelet winner Chance Kornuth, John Juanda, and Team PokerStars Pro players JP Kelly, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Noah Boeken, and Joe Hachem.

It was a good day for the Irish contingent with recent UKIPT winner Femi Fakinle fighting young German pro Benjamin Spindler for the top place of the leader board for much of the day. Fakinle moved down a few slots at end of play but is still a dangerous force to be reckoned with with so much play remaining. Online high stakes pro John O’Shea was also in the top 10 for much of the day but took a beating from David “Chino” Rheem when after both players found themselves all in preflop with O’Shea covering Rheem, the Irishman’s pocket nines were slaughtered by Rheem’s pocket eights as not one but two more eights appeared on the board. He’s still sitting pretty comfortably near the upper end of the leader board, as is 2008 EPT Barcelona runner-up Fintan Gavin. Bracelet holder Marty Smyth and Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth also made it through to day 3.

Here is the unofficial top 10 at end of play:

Moments before the bubble, David Vamplew who already had a pretty huge stack had a nice end to his day by soaring into the lead with more than a million when he made a full house with pocket nines on a 9-2-2 flop versus Paul Kristofferson’s A-2.

Day 3 begins tomorrow at noon (4 a.m. PST) when 128 players will return to play down to 24, determining who gets what from the bottom and middle end of the payout list. Among side events tomorrow is a £100 + £10 + £10 buy-in, £100,000 guaranteed charity tournament which sees £10 from each buy-in go directly to Cancer Research UK. Players can donate funds directly by transferring chips at PokerStars.com to user ID “CancerUK”. Stay with CardPlayer.com for more videos, live updates, and photographs as we continue our search for the 2010 EPT London main event champion.

Official Day 2 Chip Counts:

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