The Grand is up to 172 entries with two hours of late registration still possible in the event.

The $200,000 guarantee has not been reached yet but is coming close. Canada's Don Protz is in the lead and followed by Maksym Mamonov, Domenico Lando, Engbert van Esch, and Sylvain Loosli.

Other familiar names in the top 20 include Charlos Chada, Hannes Speiser, Robert Heidorn, Simon Grabeschweiger, and Ole Schemion.

partypoker Ambassador Joao Simao and Jaime Staples are both hovering around the starting stack but Simao is on his second bullet.