Just 71 players remain in the 2020 World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars, with several big names among the top 10 chipcounts after Day 2.

The day began with hundreds of players still in contention to reach the money and these numbers were boosted by the 280 players who traded $5,200 for 20 big blinds and the shot at a million-dollar top prize as registration ran until just five minutes before the cards were shuffled up and dealt on Day 2.

That meant a total number of entries that reached 1,977 including 541 re-entries (1,436 unique players), and while that was 23 entries short of the $10 million guarantee, with registration fees, the tournament had pretty much paid for itself and created a top prize on offer of $1,499,942. 

As you might expect with a dramatically reduced average stack, the eliminations flowed steadily for some time, with a bust-out roughly every 20 seconds from the off. Several big names were high-profile casualties of that initial period, with tournament poker legend Chris Moorman, Damian Salas and Russian poker crusher Artur Martirosian all leaving well before the money bubble burst.