At the end of level 22, the EPT €1,100 National is down to its last 48 hopefuls, who already have locked up €4,200. Federico Petruzzelli has claimed the chip lead and sits on top with 2,700,000, followed by Dragos Trofimov (2,100,000), Ionut Trifu (1,800,000) and Michal Mrakes (1,700,000).

Alexandre Le Vaillant (1,400,000), Gaelle Baumann (1,250,000), Antona Pierre (1,100,000), Guillaume Diaz (1,050,000), Thomas Muehloecker (750,000) and Jason Wheeler (550,000) are also still in contention for the first place prize of €250,000. They'll be playing ten levels of 60 minutes each today before chips are bagged for the night.