Welcome Back to Day 2 of the £3,000 Platinum Pass Mystery Bounty
Day 2 is ready to begin in the £3,000 Platinum Pass Mystery Bounty and this is the part of the tournament where the excitement will start. The PokerStars European Poker Tour London is ready to give away some great prizes over the next couple of days, including the coveted £30,000 Platinum Pass.
This tournament attracted a field of 378 total entries over the first 12 levels on Day 1 and late registration will remain open until 12:30 pm BST today. Once registration is closed, the tournament staff will then have 30 minutes to construct the bounty prize pool with the cards going in the air at 1 pm BST.
There will be at least 126 players returning to their seats for Day 2 with Raphael Khalili leading the way. Khalili finished the opening day with 336,500 chips, good enough for over 11 starting stacks. He will be closely followed by poker pro and tournament director Kenny Hallaert who bagged up a stack of 320,000. Some other familiar names near the top of the leaderboard include Steve O'Dwyer, Mustapha Kanit, and Chris Moorman.
The bounty prizes will be announced just before the cards go in the air along with the tournament prize pool that is currently sitting at just under £500,000. Players who choose to register before the start of play will be given a stack of 30,000 chips with the blinds resuming at 1,000/1,500 and a 1,500 big blind ante. The is no definite schedule for how long Day 2 will last, but another 12 levels of 40 minutes would be a good guess.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the tournament floor to bring you all of the updates on the large bounty winners along with how the tournament unfolds.