Although the numbers were down from the 764 that played last year, a total of 579 players entered the Partouche main event creating a prizepool of over €4.3 million with the winner taking home €1,000,000.
A total of 63 players will make the money that begins with payouts of €12,000.
At the start of Day 2, there were a total of 322 players remaining with Italian Giuseppe Pantaleo holding the chip lead with 265k.
A number of notable players had decent chip stacks coming into Day 2:
David “Chino” Rheem — 123,300
Olivier Busquet — 113,000
Freddy Deeb — 108,600
Joe Cassidy - 102,800
Arnaud Mattern — 102,500
Tobias Reinkemeïer — 99,100
Vanessa Selbst — 86,200
Antony Lellouche — 69,300
Jason Mercier — 68,400
Dan ‘jungleman12’ Cates — 64,700
William Thorson — 57,500
Michael Tureniec — 50,200
Alex Kravchenko — 48,800
Ludovic Lacay — 43,000
Davidi Kitai — 38,100
Antonio Esfandiari — 23,900
In the late hours of Day 2, a number of the big names have bust out including Jason Mercier, Arnaud Mattern, Wiliam Thorson, Chino Rheem, Vanessa Selbst, Antonio Esfandiari, Dan Cates, Alex Kravchenko, and Antony Lellouche.
Notable bustouts on Day 1 included Phil Hellmuth, Phil Laak, Sami Kelopuro, Jake Cody, Roberto Romanello and Michael Mizrachi.
The push to reach the money will begin on Day 3 at noon Thursday.
