2009 World Series of Poker Europe

Day 2 Concludes; Day 3 Next in Line

Day 2 is a wrap, dear readers, and it looks as though 92 of our 178 Day 2 starters will be coming back at noon tomorrow for Day 3.

A good few big names couldn't stand the Day 2 heat and got out of the tournament kitchen relatively early -- Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, Phil Hellmuth, David Williams and Mike Matusow all bowed out long before we'd finished the four levels scheduled for today's play and won't be coming back to the Empire in the morning.

On the other hand, even more big names than that remain in the field. Jason Mercier, John Tabatabai and Ram Vaswani all have fairly hefty stacks, as do Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Devilfish and Liz Lieu.

Leader of the pack by quite a long way, though, is one Ian Munns, on over half a million chips. Still, it's not in the bag yet. Munn's got a bunch of eager young hopefuls on his tail -- Praz Bansi, November Niner James Akenhead, David Docherty and, er, up-and-coming whippersnapper Doyle Brunson are hot on his heels, chip-wise.

We'll be back at the brighter, earlier, possibly sleepier time of noon GMT+1 tomorrow when we'll be back to the regular gruelling WSOPE schedule. Do join us then for all the action, direct from the floor.

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