EPT San Remo: The Bubble Looms Large

Just 194 players remain in the field after Day 2 of the PokerStars EPT San Remo . With just 10 eliminations before the cash, Day 3 will start with the money bubble being very much in play.

With 1,240 participants, and each paying a €5,000 buy-in, the total prize pool for the PokerStars European Poker Tour at San Remo stands at just over €6 million. A total of 184 players will go home in the money, while the winner stands to pocket €1.25 million.

Of the famous faces that are still left, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier remains among the chip leaders in ninth place, while EPT Snowfest winner Allan Baekke follows close behind. Jason Mercier and Thomas Bichon will also return on Day 3, but Lex Veldhuis and Dario Minieri have both hit the rails.

Six PokerStrategists remain in the hunt

Of the more than ten PokerStrategists that started the day, six of them are still contention for a piece of the €6 million pie. Black Member Holger "tonding" Kanisch is among one of the survivors from Day 2, as he celebrated his 28th birthday on the EPT felt. Here are their chip counts for the six remaining PokerStrategists:

• lechiffre19: 311,500
• maddyhh: 171,500
• lechuckpoker: 146,500
• crackin: 126,500
• tonding: 92,500
• dahustla: 33,000

Team PokerStrategy.com however did not have its best day at the tables as PokerNoob, CuCbKu, Bongbob and Allanon all hit the rails. This also marks the end of PokerNoob's run of consecutive cashes at the EPT. Other PokerStrategists who will be joining our team members on the sidelines include simon1989, marioooooo, geniodelletartarughe, psychobenny and predator666.

We will be bringing you frequent updates of the six remaining PokerStrategists on Day 3. To read about them, just visit the our live ticker thread:

Go to the EPT San Remo Live Ticker

We have also uploaded several pictures from the event, which you can view below:

EPT San Remo Day 2 | EPT San Remo Day 1B | EPT San Remo Day 1A | Welcome Party

Russian Dmitry Stelmak is the current chip leader with 670,000 chips. Elky is not far behind, holding 453,500 chips. Here are the top 10 players from Day 2: 

PokerStars EPT San Remo Day 2 Results
Rank	Name	Chips
1	Dmitry Stelmak	670,000
2	Alexander Roumeliotis	633,500
3	Erik Tamm	590,500
4	Jakob Karlsson	575,000
5	Dermot Blain	552,000
6	Nicholas Sforos	544,500
7	Steven Gross	530,000
8	Matthias De Meulder	482,500
9	Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	453,500
10	Paul Pires-Trigo	445,500