Meulyzer Leads At The Close of Day 2
Play has now ended here at the PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest and although 268 players who started the day with high hopes of making it to at least the money places only 81 survived with their chip stacks intact.
This means that were are yet to reach the money places, though we fully expect to lose the required nine players early on in proceedings tomorrow and when we do each of those players who are still in the tournament will be guaranteed to walk away with no less than €5,250 for their efforts this week.
A number of Team PokerStars Pros started the day but failed to make it through to Day 2 including Liv Boeree, Johannes Strassmann and Salvatore Bonavena. However, four of their team-mates did make it through, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Alexander Kravchenko and Luca Pagano, the latter was amongst the top of the chip counts all day long.
Sat at the top of counts with a staggering 623,500 chips is Belgium's Philip Meulyzer and his nearest rival as they bag and tag their precious chips is Italian Giacomo Maisto who has 572,500.
Play resumes at 1400 local time on Wednesday and will continue until the 81 players have been whittled down to just the final 24 players. Until then it is goodnight from everyone here at the PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest