Welcome To Day 2 of the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event
As the title says, welcome to Day 2 of the WPT merit Cyprus Classic Main Event where at 1:00PM EEST the 131 players who managed to survive the two starting flights will sit down and play five 90-minute levels. There will be a 15-minute break at the end of each level and no dinner break.
The man who everyone has to catch it they want to claim the title of being this tournament's chip leader is David "Chino" Rheem. Rheem ended Day 1b by bagging up a tournament leading 291,500 chip stack; almost 40,000 chips more than his nearest rival Maxim Panyak (who played Day 1a).
Along with Rheem and Panyak other big stacks include Hüsnü Sincar (247,500), the hyper-aggressive former WPT Amneville champion Sam El Sayed (214,300), Atzlan Gil (207,100) and Giuseppe Pantaleo (191,300).
Let us not forget we still have plenty of other stars in the field including but not limited to Robert and Michael Mizrachi, Team PokerStars Pro Toni Judet, Kelly Kim, Dominik Nitsche, Nicolas Chouity, Gaelle Baumann and Martin Finger. We have all the ingredients for a superb day of first class poker.
Join the PokerNews Live Reporting team from 1:00PM EEST for all the action from the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event.
While you wait, check out Lynn Gilmartin and Matt Savage, Executive Tour Director of the World Poker Tour, out on the golf course: