Xu Leads After Day 2 in €1,100 FPS Paris Main Event
The second of four days in the €1,100 France Poker Series FPS Paris Main Event has wrapped up with just 61 remaining after the day began with 470 players. Leading the way is China's Aiguo Xu with a stack of 3,745,000, followed not far behind by fellow big stacks Vasyl Zabrodskyy (2,540,000), Alan Goasdoue (2,540,000) and Mario Re (2,330,000).
The tournament has already been one to remember as it drew a record-breaking 2,071 entrants, besting the previous FPS Main Event record of 1,918 runners set at 2022 EPT Prague. The eventual champion will take home the trophy and top prize of €287,830, while each returning player is guaranteed a payday of at least €4,570.
Some notables who survived to see Day 3 include Julien Sitbon, Kenny Hallaert, Gianluca Speranza and Day 1 chip leaders Joey Weissman, Jean Labryga and Loic Vaux.
€1,100 FPS Paris Main Event Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
| NAME | COUNTRY | CHIP COUNT | BIG BLINDS | |
| Aiguo Xu | China | 3,745,000 | 125 | |
| Vasyl Zabrodskyy | Ukraine | 2,540,000 | 85 | |
| Alan Goasdoue | France | 2,540,000 | 85 | |
| Mario Re | Italy | 2,330,000 | 78 | |
| Thibault Reverdito | France | 2,185,000 | 73 | |
| Loic Vaux | France | 1,980,000 | 66 | |
| Didier Mambour | France | 1,830,000 | 61 | |
| Christopher Dowling | Ireland | 1,780,000 | 59 | |
| Oleksii Natoptanyi | Ukraine | 1,740,000 | 58 | |
| Romain Morvan | France | 1,705,000 | 57 |
Day 2 Action
As the surviving players from the three starting flights combined on Day 2, it didn't take long for hundreds of players to bust to bring the field down to a few dozen tables. Some of those who made early exits include Antoine Labat,
Jason Wheeler, Zhong Chen, Dinesh Alt and PokerStars Team Online Pro Lasse Jagd Lauritsen.
Sebastien Botschi was eliminated by Nicolas Tytgat on the soft money bubble before Guillaume Victor Pujebet and Mani Akbari went out at the same time to chop the minimum cash and take home €855 each.
After that, the rapid-fire bust outs presumed as Nils Pudel, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Alexandre Reard and EPT and WSOP Main Event champion Martin Jacobson.
There were plenty of big bluffs on Day 2, including one that had Dario De Paz busting a 100-big blind stack after getting it in with ace-three against the Big Slick of Mathieu Rabalison and failing to improve. Just a few hours earlier, the cigarette-toting David Sacksick fell when he got in a blind versus blind raising war and and five-bet shoved with queen-three only to be called by the pocket queens of Adi Rajkovic.
But some of the day's bluffs were successful, including one where Duc Quy Nguyen bluffed two streets with just jack-high to take a pot off Vasyl Zabrodskyy.
Day 3 will kick off at noon on Level 24 with blinds of 15,000/30,000/30,000 as the field gets closer to a winner, who will be crowned on Day 4.
That wraps up the PokerNews live reporting team's Day 2 coverage, but be sure to check back tomorrow to keep up on the Day 3 action.
flop and was called. The 
checked through to the 
river. Labryga decided to lead again for another 200,000 and was quickly called. 
for a pair of queens but the pot went to his opponent who had 
for a pair of aces.
. 
flop kept Rabalison ahead but the 
completed the board and De Paz was distraught about the outcome. 
and Ferreira led out once again, this time for 75,000. Plesuv shoved all in for 230,000. Ferreira's forehead creased with anguish before he made the call. 
for top pair with a higher kicker. The 
river further improved Plesuv's hand and he won a huge double up.
and Rajkovic's queens held. It was a costly bluff attempt for Sacksick, whose stack was reduced to just 40,000 chips.
and got called by Gianluca Speranza in the big blind. Pujebet had 
for a flush, but Speranza showed 
for a higher flush. The river card did not matter and Pujebet was out of the tournament. 
and Bragiola's tens held. Akbari and Pujebet both busted on the bubble and split the min-cash prize for €855 each.
. On the button, Dirkzwager mulled it over for a couple of minutes until Labryga called the clock. The floor came over and gave Dirkzwager 30 seconds to make his decision. 