Welcome to Day 2 of the 2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura!

Welcome back to Day 2 of EPT Vilamoura, the biggest poker tournament in Portugal's history. Leonid Bilokur, who won the €2,000 side event at EPT Berlin earlier this year, will begin today as the chip leader with 161,200 but there are many players of the 221 remaining who are not too far behind. Arnaud Mattern, Paul Foltyn, Toby Lewis, Brandon Cantu, Sorel Mizzi, Sam Trickett and Nick Heather all also start with large stacks and the skills and experience to make a deep run at this tournament.

From now on the levels will be increased in length from 60 to 75 minutes ensuring maximum amount of play for those involved. 56 players from our initial 384 runners will be getting paid a minimum of €7,263 with €467,835 for the winner of this event.

Six levels are planned for today and we'll be getting underway at 12pm local time (GMT+1). The action should be fast and furious from the start so don't miss out!