Day 2 Done, Dusted, David Sonelin in the Lead
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As the chips are bagged and tagged, one David Sonelin - who you may remember came 11th back at the much-missed EPT Baden the year Team PokerStars Pro Julian Thew won it - has emerged as the decisive chip leader. With 438,900, Sonelin is head and shoulders above his closest rivals who seem to be Fabrice Soulier (390,700) and Sergey Kislinskiy (390,200).
The atmosphere here in Deauville has been rather subdued today, but the pace of play has nonetheless been furious - we've lost around 60% of the field in five levels. Among those who fell by the wayside were Viktor Blom, Frank op de Woerd, Peter de Korver, Fernando Brito and Nacho Barbero.
Roughly 200 players have made it through to Day 3 and it's looking as though it's going to be very entertaining. Still in the running are Praz Bansi, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Thomas Bichon, Bruno Fitoussi and Salvatore Bonavena. Official chip counts will magically appear here overnight and we'll all be back here in the virtual flesh at noon tomorrow. The money is at 128 so we expect to hit the bubble within a few levels, and things are going to get very serious indeed.
A demain, mes amis.