After six levels of play on day 2 of the 2011 PokerStars European Poker Tour main event in Barcelona, Spain, 141 players have survived the day with 120 of them going home with at least €8,000 in their pockets.
Leading the top ten by the chip count is Xavier Carruggi with 577,700 in chips, followed by Toni Pattersson with 534,100 in chips. The third place goes to Martin Schleich, the chip leader of day 1a, who has 453,400 in his chip bag. Guillaume Darcourt the chip leader of day 1b has finished in the 8th place with 380,100 in chips. Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst has taken the last spot on the leaderboard with 364,500 in chips.
The notable playerse who were not able to survive the day were Luca Pagano, Jonathan Duhamel, Sam El Sayed, Kent Lundmark, Arnaud Mattern, Marvin Rettenmaier and Jason Mercier.
On day 3 of the 2011 PokerStars European Poker Tour main event in Barcelona, the player count will be reduced down to the final 24 players and the money bubble will burst as well.
Top ten by the chip count after day 2:
1st – Xavier Carruggi – 577,700c
2nd – Toni Pettersson – 534,100c
3rd – Martin Schleich – 453,400c
4th – Saar Wilf – 430,700c
5th – Raul Mestre – 404,900c
6th – Dmitrij Fadeev – 380,200c
7th – Guillaume Darcourt – 380,100c
8th – Evgeny Zaytsev – 368,300c
9th – Jose Angel Latorre Marina – 367,800c
10th – Vanessa Selbst – 364,500c
Although Marcel Schreiner has shown the best play from all of the players on the tournament, being in the chiplead at the end of every day. Still it was not an easy task to win against Matt Yates in the heads up which lasted for more than 180 hands. Schreiner was holding the chip lead for most of the heads up, loosing it only once to Yates, when they went all in and Matt Yates was holding a better kicker, taking the chip lead from Schreiner.
Guillaume Darcour is leading the field of 407 survivors into day 2 with 195,300. Right behind him with 182,100 in chips is the chip leader of day 1a, Martin Schleich. The other eight players in the top ten are all in range of 20,00 chips with Vytautas Milvydas taking the third position with 172,400 in chips.