Another Frenchman - Thomas Fougeron - has gotten some chips early and is now on over 90,000.
Irish WSOP bracelet winner Alan Smurfit has made a positive start and is now on 42,000. His fellow countrymen Tony Cascarino and John Conroy have 50,000 and 30,000 respectively.
Swede Ola Brandborn who started as one of the chip leaders has dumped over half his stack and is looking uncomfortable on 30,000.
Also, Rafael Comas and Erik Friberg are down to the felt and Michael Greco is currently missing in action.
The first two levels of play have seen some frantic action with nearly 50 players sent to the rails. The most notable casualties are Liz Lieu, Roland de Wolfe and Daniel Negreanu. We have 93 players remaining with an average chip count of 42,200.
Pascal Perrault is cresting near the 160,000 chip mark the beneficary of 60,000 chips from a tilted opponent.
The tiltee, had just lost 23,000 when his was cracked all in pre-flop against with a rivered making the wheel.
Our tiltee then raised the very next pot with and Perrault on the big blind reraised him 10,000. Tiltee then moves all-in for over 60,000 and Perrault makes a quick call and his holds on a board of .
He moved all in for 22,000 after another player had raised form early position and Daniel Mangas made a large isolation raise from the button which got the Spaniard heads up with the Irishman.
for Reihill
for Mangas
The board was Ten high and Reihill moves up to over 50,000 in chips.
Citrone raised from the small blind and the big blind moved in for roughly 25,000. Carlo gave his opponent a stare-down that would have made Mike Tyson plead for mercy before he eventually made a good call with and found himself in a race situation against .
The popped up on the flop and Citrone is pretty disgusted to have been forced to take a race and lose against such a weak hand.
With 72 players remaining and an average chip stack of 54,500. Some notable stacks:
Ola Brandborn 30,000
Anthony Hardy 40,000
Joseph Mouawad 100,000
Marc Goodwin 120,000
Ben Grundy 40,000
Thomas Fougeron 20,000
Chris Moneymaker 120,000
Roland de Wolfe 12,000
Liam Flood 40,000
Nicholas Roge 130,000
Dave Colclough 60,000
Surinder Sunar 110,000
Ian Woodley 16,000
Pascal Perrault 180,000
Anthony Lellouche 60,000
Daniel Levi 95,000
Stig Rasmussen 90,000
Tony Cascarino 30,000