Monday, day 2 of the PokerStars.comEuropean Poker Tour Barcelona , turned out to be relatively short EPT standards. Six 75-minute levels were completed, and the pace of action seemed to make the day still firmly than it otherwise would have to pass through. At the end of the day Xavier Carruggi France, held the broadest chip bag in the room, and his stack of 577,700 is the one that everyone will be chasing on day 3.
Things started innocently enough with the half of the starting field--407 players, to be exact--to return to the Casino of Barcelona for the push to the money. However, within minutes, led a flood of players back through the exit door because a steady downpour of eliminations took place. More than 60 players were sent off in the first level; another 60 went during the second level. At the end of the night with the money bubble remained 141 approaching in a hurry. The last 120 players with chips will earn salary this week.
So what happened, then? Saar Wilf won a pot first, so great that it might be two days before we see another one like it. It started with a crippled and three-way action, and Wilf 
ended the great 
flush 
run on the 
Council. 
, He worked with Ghenadi Victor and Wilf gave all he could have asked for action. By the time the showdown arrived, there were 750,000 chips and more than 300 big blinds piled up in the middle of the table. Ghenadi never showed his cards, but they certainly could not win the nut flush, and Wilf himself leapfrogged to the front of the pack just like that. A cooling off period of followed, but he still ended up with the pressure tomorrow with 430,700. That is good enough for fourth place overall as the cost field down the back stretch of this event.
Others who will be great to start the day 3 stacks include wielding Tony Petterson, Martin Schleich, Raul Mestre, Guillaume Darcourtand the pink-haired. Previous two EPT cashes, both previously Darcourt has little ones. But he's on a bit of a stove these days, fresh from his deep run into the WSOP Main Event, where sometimes, he looked like he could be walking away with that event, but he was cooled in a large pot during day 7. He had to settle for a salary of the 35th place worth almost a quarter of a million dollars. He is gunning for a EPT Trophy this week, and his stack of 380,100 put it in fine shape now--seventh place overall.
Oh Vanessa Selbst, and then there is. The Team PokerStars Pro and double NAPT champion has her sights firmly on this field, and they may well be the EPT betting favorite to win at this stage. They started the day on one of the harder tables in the room but quickly did her part to make her life easier. A few jobs in the day, they added a double knock-out 
as her strong against the corresponding James Mitchell and bait-queens of Marcin Horecki.
Just like that two dangerous players were sent, and the Selbst was just getting started. Fellow Michael Schurpf big stack was her next victim. He and Selbst both stacked enough to have a big pot all-in preflop. ACEs were a big favorite against Selbst Schurpf of Queens, but a third Queen on the shot of the River to the top of the graves. They ended the day with a pile of the top-ten of 364,500 chips.
Not everyone had such a happiness, though. Arnaud Matternanother Team Pro,, was one of the first to fall. He would do the the same way about again if he could. Mattern had a chance to triple to when his push with pocket Kings was called down by both bag dozens and ace-ten. The fallen ace, as well as Mattern, and he was out the door soon followed by Matt Waxman, Luca Pagano, Melanie Weisner, Nacho Barbero, Jason Mercier, and Sebastian Ruthenberg, among others.
The 141 players who managed to stave off elimination tournament on Tuesday will back in the room when they are trying to play to 24 players. The figures as a long day if that goal is to be met, but no one seems to mind if the action continues to heat up in the EPT Barcelona.
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