Welcome to Day 2 of the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller
A staggering 205 entries were made into the €25,000 High Roller, making this the largest High Roller on European Soil in the 10 season history of the European Poker Tour. Registration is still open till the start of play, so that number might even increase a little too. Of those 205 entries, 95 players were still active at the end of the day late last night.
The plan for today is to play down to a final table, or ten full one-hour levels. With an average stack of a little 100,000 and blinds to begin at 1,000/2,000 (300 ante), there's more than enough play left. So 10 levels is more likely to happen than to form a final table today.
Leading the way is Benny Spindler who amassed 384,300 in chips. He'll start the day with 192 big blinds. Ismail Erkenov (355,600), John Juanda (290,600) and Dmitry Yurasov (242,000) also did a great job of collecting chips on the first day. Scott Seiver (22,900), Martin Jacobson (21,200) and Marvin Rettenmaier (20,500) will have a much tougher job staying alive in today's tournament full of sharks.
The official chip counts of all the players have not yet been released by the tournament organization. A table draw is also nog likely to be released before play starts. When we get the official numbers, we'll be sure to update them right here in the PokerNews live reporting blog.
Play will again start at noon today. Check back with PokerNews for coverage in two and a half hours!