Swede and Finn Leading into Day 3 of EPT - Tallinn

The combined field of Day 1A and 1B of the European Poker Tour Tallinn main event played Day 2 Thursday in Tallinn, Estonia. Swede Nikolas Liakos and Finn Lari Sihvo finished with 460,200 and 400,100 chips respectively.

The only two players to break the 400,000 mark were followed by Michael Graydon (349,800), Liutauras Armanavicius (337,600) and Jani Sointula (333,300). Some other notables who are lurking include Ronny Kaiser (269,600), Sami "larzluzak" Kelopuro (224,800) and Italian Irene Baroni (257,600). The average chip stack is around 134k.

There are 63 players heading to Day 3 hoping to reach the 40 player money bubble in the €4,000 buy-in main event that started with 282 players and created a prize pool of €1,071,600. The winner will receive €275,000.

Former EPT champions who busted on Day 2 included Jens Kyllonen, Kevin Stani, Rupert Elder, Kevin Stani, Kent Lundmark, David Vamplew and the popular Dario Minieri. Only Roberto Romanello and Arnaud Mattern are former EPT champions still playing into Day 3.

Start of Day 3 top 10 chip leaders:

Nikolas Liakos