Another Day of Big Buy-In Action

Welcome back for Day 2 of Event No. 52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed. Yesterday saw 191 of the best of the best take to the felt in some very furious action for ten levels of play. Emerging as the chip leader from Day 1 is Alexander Gruibem who bagged up 548,000 chips. Jason Somerville carved his own path and sits in second place with 516,600. Sam Trickett is also up there. Those three are the only players with more than a half a million in chips.

As you work your down the rest of the top ten counts to finish Day 1, you'll see a bunch of big names made their way to the top. McLean Karr, Isaac Haxton, Daniel Negreanu, John Juanda, Frank Kassela, Bryn Kenney, Mikael Thuritz and Dan Kelly round out that list. On top of that, we've still got Nick Schulman, John Duthie, Hoyt Corkins, Scott Seiver, Barry Greenstein and Phil Ivey in the mix, making for one heck of a Day 2.

Play is slated to begin at 2:30 p.m. local time with another ten levels of action to come. There was some talk of the structure being super fast for the first day of play, but many claim that it will slow down a bit today. There's going to be a 500/2,500/5,000 level thrown in along with a 2,000/9,000/18,000 level to help slow things down as the day progresses, but the antes do look somewhat large at certain points in the structure. We'll see how this plays out.

With 69 players remaining, we should get close to the money today or even burst the bubble at 18. We'll see you in a little bit for the start of Day 2.