Level 42, Blinds: 125,000/250,000 (31,250)

"Rochinh2011" ended their run in 7th place after getting less than 10 big blinds in against "kryingkid" but was dominated and couldn't find any outs.

Player	Chips	Progress
kryingkid	5,340,000 3,876,000	3,876,000
Rochinh2011	Busted

Level 44, Blinds: 200,000/400,000 (50,000)

"Illraise8" was next off the final table when they couldn't win a race with king-eight over the fours of "brubsb".

Player	Chips	Progress
brubsb	3,554,000 1,238,000	1,238,000
Illraise8	Busted

Level 38, Blinds: 60,000/120,000 (15,000)

It didn't take long for the first elimination to happen on the final table after "iNFOsHOVE" got the second-shortest stack in with a suited king-ten but couldn't win the race against the pocket eights of "Rochinh2011".

Player	Chips	Progress
raw_dawg	5,112,000 588,488	588,488
Rochinh2011	4,176,000 1,018,836	1,018,836
mylly8	3,600,000 -345,831	-345,831
DragoDanzig	2,520,000 -39,366	-39,366
brubsb	2,316,000 -220,148	-220,148
kryingkid	1,464,000 -163,140	-163,140
Illraise8	1,284,000 -47,429	-47,429
crizelda	864,000 -41,736	-41,736
iNFOsHOVE	Busted

There were more than 2,100 entries (including rebuys) over the Day 1 flights for the 888poker XL Retro Main Event, and 415 players returned yesterday for Day 2 action. That put $508,070 into the prize pool to be divided 240 ways and it didn't take long to make it into the money with the bubble bursting less than an hour after play began.

The pace of the day continued, and shortly after the four-hour mark, Brazilian player "pereira132" bubbled the final table to end Day 2. That left nine players standing, but they bagged up their chips to return to action today to finish it out.

"raw_dawg" leads the way into Day 3 with just over 4.5 million, but second-place "mylly8" of Finland is just shy of four million going into the final day of play. The action on Day 2 ended in Level 38, so that's where things will pick up for Day 3 with blinds at 60,000/120,000/17,500.

XL Retro Final Main Event Table Chip Counts

The live action kicks off at 3 pm ET, but the final table will be streamed with cards up on 888pokerTV with a one-hour delay. PokerNews coverage will stay with the live stream delay with action scheduled to begin at about 4 pm ET.