127 Players Push Through to Day 3 With Ivan Banic In The Lead

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Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars European Poker Tour Dublin Main Event came and went in a flash on the Emerald Isle on Tuesday.

A total of 341 survivors from the event's two starting days returned to the Royal Dublin Society with plans to battle it out through six 75-minute levels. Some 15 more entries were added to the mix before play started, and by the time the dust settled, 127 pushed through to Wednesday's Day 3.

With registration officially closed, prize pool information was released part way through the day. A grand total of 605 players meant a �2,934,250 prize pool was created that will pay 87 spots. A minumum cash is worth �9,100, the top six players will all earn six figures and Irish poker glory, and a �561,900 first-place prize awaits the winner.

The inside track on the title currently belongs to some pretty big names, as bosses like Anthony Zinno, Mike McDonald, and Dominik Panka all built big stacks heading into Day 3.

Team PokerStars Pros Luca Pagano, Liv Boeree, and PokerStars Team Online's Jaime Staples and Mickey Petersen also remain in contention, but the end-of-day chip leader was none other than Croatia's Ivan Banic, who amassed at least a part of his stack in a somewhat bizarre hand where he exposed his cards, flopped a set, but still managed to get paid off by an opponent with a flush draw.

Well-known heroes like Steve O'Dwyer, Chris Moorman, and Dzmitry Urbanovich are also still in with a shot headed to Day 3.

It wasn't all wine and roses for the entire field, however, as 2014 WSOP Main Event champ Martin Jacobson, Friend of PokerStars Felipe "Mojave" Ramos, serial EPT PokerStars qualifer and EPT Berlin champ Kevin MacPhee, EPT Dublin �10,200 Single-Day High Roller winner Charlie Carrel, EPT Dublin �25,750 High Roller champ Mustapha Kanit, and Team PokerStars Pros George Danzer, Theo Jorgensen, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Jake Cody, and Jason Mercier were among those who did not survive the day.

Day 3 will kick off at 12 p.m. local time in Dublin on Wednesday with the money bubble clearly in sight and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand for all the action from start to finish.

Tune in then as PokerNews will feature exclusive live coverage of the EPT Dublin Main Event through the bubble and beyond.

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Francisco Oliveira	Portugal	285,000
1	2	Kevin Killeen	Ireland	36,400
1	3	Jakub Michalak	Poland	169,400
1	4	David Vamplew	United Kingdom	91,000
1	5	Dominik Panka	Poland	203,700
1	6	Fernando Brito	Portugal	40,300
1	7	Willliam Batista Arruda	Brazil	170,700
1	8	David Lappin	Ireland	39,000

2	1	Stefan Schillhabel	Germany	142,000
2	2	Edouard Mignot	France	64,000
2	3	Simen Birkelund	Norway	153,000
2	4	Patrick Clarke	Portugal	51,600
2	5	Miltiadis Kyriakides	Greece	165,000
2	6	Linus Loeliger	Switzerland	95,500
2	7	Marcin Wydrowski	Poland	119,600
2	8	Orpen Kisacikoglu	Turkey	213,000

3	1	Yang Zhang	China	149,200
3	2	Anthony Zinno	United States	279,800
3	3	Przemyslaw Piotrowski	Poland	56,300
3	4	Stephen Malone	Ireland	140,300
3	5	Luca Pagano	Italy	230,000
3	6	Jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	157,600
3	7	Alessio Casiraghi	Italy	25,800
3	8	Ezequiel Lebed	Argentina	120,000

4	1	Adrian Mateos	Spain	172,000
4	2	Jarrod Rex	United Kingdom	128,500
4	3	Ismael Bojang	Austria	109,100
4	4	Tudor Purice	Romania	323,700
4	5	Mikhail Petrov	Russia	322,600
4	6	Or Hadad	Israel	86,800
4	7	Morten Jensen	Denmark	38,400
4	8	Richard Dubini	Argentina	138,000

5	1	Michael Wang	United States	107,000
5	2	Joao Baumgarten	Brazil	99,300
5	3	Alexandre Rivero	Brazil	68,600
5	4	Patrick Schopf	Austria	108,100
5	5	Rhys Jones	United Kingdom	76,700
5	6	Gaelle Baumann	France	192,600
5	7	Sven Magirius	Germany	166,500
5	8	Andrew Chen	Canada	79,700

6	1	Pierre Calamusa	France	61,000
6	2	Adrien Allain	France	297,000
6	3	Pratyush Buddiga	United States	193,200
6	4	Pierre Neuville	Belgium	52,200
6	5	Carlos Chadha	Canada	148,500
6	6	Felix Lambertz	Germany	63,500
6	7	Rodrigo Perez	Argentina	96,600
6	8	Mike McDonald	Canada	291,000
7	1	Michal Rudnik	Poland	116,100
7	2	Jean-Philippe Goulet-Ratelle	Canada	106,700
7	3	Ivan Banic	Croatia	381,200
7	4	Thiago Nishijima	Brazil	42,600
7	5	Bernardo Dias	Brazil	70,500
7	6	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	167,700
7	7	Fabrice Halleux	Belgium	78,600
7	8	Christoph Vogelsang	Germany	280,100

8	1	Florian Decamps	France	25,000
8	2	Iliodoros Kamatakis	Greece	183,200
8	3	Thiago Crema	Brazil	63,400
8	4	Mazin Khoury	United Kingdom	168,700
8	5	Nikolay Tsanev	Bulgaria	143,700
8	6	Andrew Abernethy	United Kingdom	30,800
8	7	Kees van Brugge	Netherlands	96,000
8	8	Filipe Oliveira	Portugal	55,500

9	1	[Removed:4]	Germany	191,200
9	2	Jonathan Concepcion	Spain	60,600
9	3	Frank Williams	United Kingdom	137,400
9	5	Davide Marchi	Italy	91,300
9	6	Adrian Buckley	United States	126,600
9	7	Charles La Boissonnire	Canada	197,700
9	8	Liv Boeree	United Kingdom	147,600

10	1	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	90,900
10	2	Jude Ainsworth	Ireland	184,400
10	3	Alexander Goulder	United Kingdom	127,900
10	4	Ben Heath	United Kingdom	125,500
10	5	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	67,000
10	6	Rodrigo Portaleoni	Italy	92,300
10	7	Vebjorn Monstad	Norway	130,700
10	8	Michail Karapanos	Greece	57,800

11	1	Artem Litvinov	Russia	130,000
11	2	Nick Abou Risk	Canada	90,300
11	3	Mikael Jean	Lebanon	320,000
11	4	Ivan Deyra	France	297,100
11	5	Timothy Adams	Canada	154,200
11	6	Alex Komaromi	Uruguay	209,800
11	7	David Boyaciyan	Netherlands	224,500
11	8	Nick Petrangelo	United States	252,500

12	1	Jean-Noel Thorel	France	250,000
12	2	Scott Margereson	United Kingdom	191,600
12	3	Niko Koop	Germany	43,500
12	4	Koray Aldemir	Germany	174,000
12	5	Brian Ganon	Argentina	158,900
12	6	Alex Difelice	Canada	359,500
12	7	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	142,500
12	8	Zvi Stern	Israel	140,800

13	1	Tomas MacNamara	United Kingdom	166,500
13	2	Fergal Cawley	Ireland	212,400
13	3	Brian Reinert	United States	61,500
13	4	Cathal Shine	Ireland	91,900
13	5	Yew Kan	China	165,400
13	6	Benjamin Winsor	United Kingdom	137,900
13	7	Yiannis Liperis	United Kingdom	69,900
13	8	Fabrice Soulier	France	69,000

14	1	Diego Ventura	Peru	56,600
14	2	Ivica Pezelj	Germany	27,400
14	3	Gilles Bernies	Germany	311,700
14	4	Matias Ruzzi	Argentina	42,200
14	5	Andras Koroknai	Hungary	134,200
14	6	Nikolaus Teichert	Germany	112,300
14	7	Maria Lampropulos	United Kingdom	192,900
14	8	Kuljinder Sidhu	United Kingdom	262,000

15	1	Guy Goossens	Belgium	65,000
15	2	Thomas Lentrodt	Germany	235,400
15	3	Alexandre Meylan	Switzerland	77,700
15	4	Lucas Reeves	United Kingdom	207,800
15	5	Gergely Bartos	Hungary	38,800
15	6	Namir Mohamed	Ireland	157,200
15	7	Jiachen Gong	Canada	323,200
15	8	Christopher Kruk	Canada	303,400

16	1	Antoine Saout	France	97,900
16	2	James Akenhead	United Kingdom	150,800
16	3	Julien Martini	France	48,600
16	4	Jaime Staples	Canada	289,600
16	5	Sadan Turker	United Kingdom	249,500
16	6	Chris Moorman	United Kingdom	78,800
16	7	Anton Wigg	Sweden	45,500
16	8	Ian Hunter	United Kingdom	103,100