Brazilian Gustavo Lopez ended Day 2 with the chip lead after 1,416 players scraped through the day. 2,176 players will begin Day 3, and Valentin Vornicu will be the overall chip leader after his superb Day 2A/B showing.

You realise it’s a marathon when you have played over 20-hours of poker, and there are still 2,176 players between you and $8m. It’s the tournament the pros will tell you is the easiest, and also the hardest. It’s a competition where you need your annual supply of luck hand delivered over a 10-day period. It’s the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.

Yesterday, I recapped Valentin Vornicu’s impressive performance where he emerged as the chip leader of Day 2A/B. Today, we will cover the main talking points of Day 2C.

3,252 players survived from the 4,240 that created a WSOP Main Event single day attendance record a few days ago. The plan was the same as Day 2A/B, and that was to play five and a half levels, or 11-hours of poker.