2008 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final - Day 2 | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

Welcome back to the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort for our continued coverage of the PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final, live from Monte Carlo, Monaco. More than half of the event's 842 entrants, including last year's champ Gavin Griffin, were lost over the course of the past two days, leaving us with a Day 2 starting field of 382.

Team PokerStars pros Daniel Negreanu, Chad Brown, Vanessa Rousso and Joe Hachem all survived yesterday's Day 1b flight and will be back in action today along with tournament pros Johnny Lodden, Woody Deck, Danny Ryan, Marcel Luske, Trond Eidsvig, Josh Arieh, Thomas Wahlroos and Anna Wroblewski. Frenchman Cyril Bensoussan will start the day with a tournament-leading 128,300 in chips, while Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin bookends the field at the bottom with 1,950.

Coverage continues at 1:00 p.m. local time; we hope to see you then!