Cheong in Charge After Two Days in San Remo
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Day 2 of the PokerStars.it EPT San Remo saw 482 of the original 879 starters return to the Casino di San Remo to see what they could do about accumulating a chip stack. The early pace was absolutely blistering, and astonishingly, our field has nearly reached the money bubble over the course of these seven furious levels. As the dust is settling, we can see that it's Joseph Cheong with the biggest stack in the room, and his 632,000 chips will make him a dangerous presence at the tables tomorrow.
Cheong began with an above-average stack of 70,000, but Nick Yunis took more than half those chips during the first level when his 
turned a flush. A couple hours later, though, Cheong was all the way up over 300,000. Just a short while ago, though, he broke through the roof when he picked up aces in that huge three-way pot.
As the day wore on, the cream really began to rise to the top of the field. Vanessa Selbst had an above-average stack all day long, and she got a big boost during the closing minutes of the day, just as Cheong did. It was Behbehani on the bad end of that clash, and Vanessa Selbst played the hand like a boss, to be frank. When the money went in on the turn, Behbehani's overpair was drawing slim against Selbst's flush, and a blank on the river has moved the Team PokerStars Pro up to 497,000 at night's end.
Other notables finding themselves flush with chips include Daniel Neilson (584,500), Mustapha Kanit (577,000), Sergey Tikhonov (504,500), and start-of-day big stacks Nick Yunis (435,500) and Chris McClung (402,000).
While there are plenty of good spots to be found during a day of play at EPT San Remo, scores of notables were unable to fade the minefield. Praz Bansi made a bit of a move when he shoved his fairly large stack in with 
, and his opponent made a huge call with pocket eights, flopped a set, and sent the Brit on his way early on. David Sands, Vanessa Rousso, Anton Wigg, McLean Karr, Liv Boeree, and Salvatore Bonavena were also sent packing over the course of the day.
The ~140 survivors will be back here tomorrow to burst the bubble and play down deeper toward the final table. We'll be here, and we hope you'll join us too!
Until then, all that's left is goodnight!