When play concluded last night at roughly midnight local time, it was Dutchman Martin Naalden whose stack was the tallest. His 777,000 chips are more than three-and-a-half times the average of 203,000. Naalden is followed by 2007 WSOP-Europe Main Event winner Annette Obrestad (671,500), who's running so good she made a royal flush at the end of the day.
In what started as a deep field, it should come as no surprise that other well-known poker names are still in the running. Take your pick from: Luca Pagano; George Danzer; Sandra Naujoks; Alexander Kravchenko; Sorel Mizzi; Marcel Luske; Ilari Sahamies; Faryad Bonzadi; Lee Nelson; Andre Akkari; Isabelle Mercier; and some guy named Joe Hachem.
Play resumes in twenty minutes, at noon local time.
