Day 2 Concludes; Forsmo Leads The Field
It's been an exciting day of poker here at Casino Sanremo as the starting fields from both Day 1a and Day 1b combined to battle on the felt for six more levels. A grand total of 430 players of the starting 797 returned for Day 2 play. At the end of the day Inge Forsmo led the remaining 152 players with a stack of 606,100.
Forsmo gained a big chunk of his stack on a hand where the board read 
. Forsmo bet 62,000 from middle position and Nikoay Tyurin flat called. Oleg Larichev moved all in for less and the 
hit the river. Forsmo announced that he was all in and Tyurin called off his tournament life with 
. Forsmo held 
for a set of sixes and was able to score a double knockout. For the rest of the night he trended upward.
While Forsmo is in the lead, there are many players on his heels. Other players that will carry big stacks into Day 3 are Charly Maracchione (505,800), Jason Tompkins (500,000), Lorenzo Sabato (387,900), Matt Salsberg (338,700), and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (336,300).
Others may not be the biggest stacks in the room, but they are certainly notable faces and will be returning to compete on Day 3. Some of those returning for the third day of play are David Vamplew (294,800), Shaun Deeb (188,800), Ludovic Lacay (183,100), Isaac Haxton (148,800), Todd Terry (97,500), Rupert Elder (31,500)
Team PokerStars also had several players make it through to the third day of play. Those moving on include Ana Marquez (162,000), Jude Ainsworth (138,700), Luca Moschitta (104,400), Liv Boeree (81,400), Chris Moneymaker (70,600), Mickey Petersen (66,500), Jose Barbero (65,100), Andre Akkari (46,300), and 2011 World Series of Poker champion Pius Heinz (43,600).
While all of those players were able to thrive on Day 2 of play, others met their untimely end. Melanie Weisner, Johnny Lodden, Leo Fernandez, JC Alvarado, Eugene Katchalov, Tim Adams, Andy Frankenberger, and Mike McDonald are just some of the players who returned for Day 2 only to find themselves without any chips before the day ended.
Also returning for Day 2 with a starting stack of 82,400 was Team PokerStars pro Angel Guillen. Unfortunately for Guillen, the cards were not on his side and provided him with a roller coaster of a day. Guillen saw his tournament come to an end when he shipped his stack of 15,000 all in before the flop with 
. Guillen's all in bet was called by fellow Team PokerStars pro Theo Jorgensen who held an inferior 
. This final hand would be the icing on the cake for a bad day for Guillen, however, as the flop fell 
to given Jorgensen a straight and the best hand. Guillen would fail to improve on the subsequent streets and was sent to the rail. While it was a temporary victory for Jorgensen, he would also meet his end before play reached its conclusion for the day.
Day 3 will begin play at 1400 CET (0800 ET) on Monday. Be sure to stay tuned to our updates on PokerNews as the field pops the money bubble and beyond!