After two thrilling starting days it's time for the second day of play in the 2015 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Malta Main Event. Up until this moment 889 players have entered this freeze-out event, but a few late entries are still expected as registration closes when cards are in the air today.
Out of the 512 players that have survived their starting flight many you will recognize. The field is stacked with top pros from all over the world and Max Silver, who's in second place with 176,100 chips, is one of them. Evangelos Tsairis leads the way right now with 180,300 as the Greek pro made a spectacular run on Day 1a.
Romania's Ignat '0Human0' Liviu sits in third place (161,900), while Sam Trickett (134,900) and Alec Torelli (133,100) barely miss out on a spot in the Top 10. Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst (82,300), Jake Cody (78,000), Leo Margets (65,800), George Danzer (59,000) and Jonathan Duhamel (46,200) are still in the hunt, as are the short stacks of Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies (8,300), Philipp Gruissem (13,300), Kitty Kuo (14,000) and last year's November Niner Jorryt van Hoof (15,100).
The average stack coming into Day 2 is 52,090 or 65 big blinds and after eight levels of 75-minutes on Day 1 it's time to play six levels of 75-minutes on Day 2 without a dinner break. The final level of the day will be 1,200/2,400 with a 300 ante. This means that the end of the night will be around 8:30 p.m. local time.
Stay tuned to PokerNews.com all throughout today as we will bring you all the live updates of this event until a champion has been crowned!
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flop for 11,400. PokerStars Team Pro Heitmann called to see the 
on the turn and the Frenchman checked.
and faced the 
of the Frenchman. Lhommeau's request for help was granted as the dealer burned and turned the 
river and Heitmann was covered to leave the tournament area with a "nice hand" towards his opponent.
Jose Quintas shoved all in from the big blind for 24,100 in a pot already quite big. George Danzer, in early position, had the option to call or fold and was clearly conflicted.
. Hein's advice was again solid. Danzer continues with about 66,000 in chips.
and Trickett bet out 4,000. El-Hoss was quick to call.
fell on the turn and Trickett now checked. El-Hoss again didn't need much time as he bet 7,000. Trickett called.
completed the board and Trickett and El-Hoss both checked. Though it was Trickett's to show first, El-Hoss immediately showed 
and Trickett mucked.
flop, Soshnikov check-called a bet of 8,600 and checked again the 
on the turn.
fell on the river.
and the Russian let out some curse words in his native language before flashing 
on the turn and the 
