After three Day 1 flights, Arron Fletcher remains the leader after his Day 1a stack of 535,000 kept him ahead of all challengers across the Day 1 fun and 700 entries.
With ￡138,600 now in the prize pool, play begins at 1pm local time here in Stratford at Aspers Casino. With 40 minute levels throughout, we'll play to a winner.
Although Fletcher leads they way, he'll have some serious competition for the title. Irish Open winner James Mitchell has 512,000 and will be tough to stop, while Graham Hawkes has 515,000 and every chance. Big name pros such as Charles Chattha (180,500) and Steve Watts (255,000) wait in the chasing pack, looking to strike whenever they have the chance.
Here are all the chip counts as we head back to action:
Day 2 Chip Counts:
| Player | Chips |
|---|---|
| Arron Fletcher | 535000 |
| Graham Hawkes | 515000 |
| James Robert Mitchell | 512000 |
| Paul Skipper | 438500 |
| Mihai-Ovidiu Pop | 412500 |
| Reza Fazeli | 400000 |
| Artan Dedusha | 343000 |
| Gary Dallison | 327500 |
| Charles Akadiri | 312000 |
| Paul Tirnovean | 298500 |
| Paul Whyman | 260000 |
| Steven Watts | 255000 |
| Andy Wool | 242000 |
| Shlomo Dubnov | 241500 |
| Ion Albu | 235000 |
| Lotfi Boughanmi | 229500 |
| Lee Champion | 220500 |
| Michael Harb | 218000 |
| Michael Benson | 217000 |
| David Gassian | 215000 |
| Edgaras Vaisvilas | 212500 |
| Marios Nicolaou | 208500 |
| Dan Moldovan | 207500 |
| Money Singh | 204500 |
| Petrit Papushi | 203000 |
| Christoph Kochy | 202500 |
| Neil Barron | 201000 |
| Bradley Joyce | 198000 |
| Thomas Pedersen | 196000 |
| Joseph Prince | 192500 |
| Jose Luis Lopez Acebes | 184500 |
| Charles Chattha | 180500 |
| Farhaan Khan | 180500 |
| Paul Muehlthaler | 179000 |
| Thomas Hughes | 178000 |
| Longbo Mi | 165500 |
| Sorie Kamara | 161500 |
| Joseph Grech | 161000 |
| Parvez Ahmed | 161000 |
| Noel Jayapaul | 155000 |
| Ivelin Ganev | 155000 |
| Amedeo Pollicardo | 153500 |
| Hristo Georgiev | 149500 |
| Emilio De Angelis | 149500 |
| Lynford Pinnock | 149500 |
| Axat Mawji | 149000 |
| Ian Adair | 146500 |
| Jozsef Pager | 145000 |
| Svetlin Ivanov | 143000 |
| Mohammed Ullah | 142000 |
| Ali Zihni | 141000 |
| John Ventre | 138500 |
| Trevor Bulless | 137500 |
| Thissa Desilva | 135000 |
| Saif Jiwa | 135000 |
| Andrzej Dubaj | 132500 |
| John Scanlon | 132000 |
| Leon Campbell | 130000 |
| Janos Toth | 129000 |
| Nicola Montalbano | 127000 |
| Jerome Bradpiece | |
| Timotheos Timotheou | 126000 |
| Sakis Nicolaou | 123000 |
| Danito Salvatore Carlucci | 118000 |
| Mark Davey | 117000 |
| David Barrow | 116500 |
| Rodney French | 116500 |
| Stefan Bratanov | 114000 |
| Akshay Reddy | 114000 |
| James Manlove | 109000 |
| Yimin Yang | 109000 |
| Ciprian Paunescu | 107000 |
| Kelly Ann Saxby | 106000 |
| Paul Hunt | 104000 |
| Marios Andreas | 103500 |
| Paul Hizer | 103000 |
| Demetrios Kounni | 102000 |
| Amanmitrasingh Daby | 100000 |
| Leo Madden | 100000 |
| Paul Gould | 99000 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | 98000 |
| Vitalii Seman | 96000 |
| Aleksandrs Brics | 95500 |
| David Corkett | 94500 |
| Gladys Long | 91000 |
| Matteo Ferrero | 84500 |
| Ricardo Auguste | 83000 |
| Daniel Dolan | 82500 |
| Thomas Drew | 81500 |
| Shangzhi Zhou | 79500 |
| Andriy Sokolyk | 75000 |
| Marius Zalpys | 72500 |
| [Removed:242] | 71000 |
| Chuc Khuu | 70000 |
| Peter Saunders | 68000 |
| Berivan Dag | 67500 |
| John Curtis | 66500 |
| Ka Him Li | 63500 |
| Warren Tolentino | 63000 |
| Benedetto Passantino | 60500 |
| Edward Barton | 57000 |
| Stephen Nimako | 56000 |
| Hosein Akbari | 52000 |
| Joseph Chacholiades | 50500 |
| Ronald Blank | 49500 |
| Stephen Bussutil | 39500 |
| Andrew Campbell | 35000 |
| Gholam Torshizi | 33000 |
| Simon Luke | 33000 |