Big Stacks at the Break

There are 61 players out of the 115 initial Day 2 entrants still in contention and they have just headed off on a 40-minute dinner break. The current frontrunner is Yu Dong and the Chinese player has been hard at work since the last time we walked by his table – he had just over 300,000 then but has more than doubled that since and is now sitting on a mountain of chips with a stack of 630,000 – that is a massive 210 big blinds folks.

The only other player we could find with anything close to this is Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung, but he ‘only’ has a stack of 360,000 (120 big blinds). While Taiwan’s Chan An Lin wins the award for the most artistic chip stack – some sort of giant elaborate chip flower that he has spent the better part of the last level building – he only has a stack of 208,000. Here’s how some of the field’s other notables are stacking up: