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14 years ago

Cheong and Selbst Strong After Day 2 of EPT San Remo

Joseph Cheong seems to like this time of year. Almost a year ago, he played his first WSOP Main Event final table and now a year later he's leading everyone after Day 2 of the European Poker Tour's (EPT) popular San Remo, Italy main event. The day ended with 145 players remaining from the 482 that started play on Sunday.

Vanessa Selbst sits in sixth as she further supports the notion that she is the best female poker player in the world currently.

Elio Fox, the 25-year-old who just won the massive World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, is lurking in 11th presently.

Lex Veldhuis (341,000), Barny Boatman (300,000), Kevin MacPhee (283,500), Mike McDonald (265,000) and Melanie Weisner (225,500) also remain in contention.

Notables busting out Sunday included Liv Boeree, Shannon Shorr, Jennifer Harman-Traniello, Sorel Mizzi, Jonathan Duhamel, Chris Moorman, Brandon Cantu and Eugene Katchalov.

Top Ten Chip Counts Leading into Day 3 of EPT San Remo:

1. Joseph Cheong – 632,000
2. Daniel Neilson – 584,500
3. Mustapha Kanit – 577,000
4. William Thorson – 508,500
5. Sergey Tikhonov – 504,500
6. Vanessa Selbst – 497,000
7. Nick Yunis – 435,500
8. Christopher McClung – 402,000
9. Ondrej Vinklarek – 396,000
10. Jon Spinks – 355,000

Play resumes Monday for Day 3 with the average stack at 175,000. The money bubble should burst early on Monday with only 128 players remaining.

Players will then start to collect their piece of the €3,734,694 ($5,189,000 US) prizepool and get closer to the €850,000 first place prize.