Welcome to Day 2!
The PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event will get underway in about 35 minutes. Registration is still open so we can't give you any definite numbers yet. At the end of yesterdays Day 1B there were 385 players left from 667 registrants. Those numbers can thus still increase, forty more minutes to hand over €5,300 for those interested.
Eight levels of play are in the book and six more 75 minute levels awaits the players today. There will be no dinner break, just a 20 minute break after every second level:
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 400 | 800 | 100 |
| 10 | 500 | 1,000 | 100 |
| 20 minute break | |||
| 11 | 600 | 1,200 | 200 |
| 12 | 800 | 1,600 | 200 |
| 20 minute break | |||
| 13 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 300 |
| 14 | 1,200 | 2,400 | 300 |
Levels will be 90 minutes from then on, but that's stuff to worry about on Day 3. First it's surviving business for the players still in it.
Lebanese player Ayman Zbib is the top dog with 181,400 in chips (226 big blinds). Dutch player [Removed:39] is the shortest stack with just 3,800 (4.7 big blinds), so he'll have to make quite the comeback to win it.
Watch this space; from 12 o' clock local time it will be filled with blog updates, photos and video interviews with your favorite players.