Live coverage Day2 WSOP-E

Update 00h35: END OF DAY 2

It's the end of Day 2! Steven has survived to be one of the last 69 players and will come back tomorrow to be ITM and try to win the WSOP-E, London 2010 bracelet.

Steven will need to double up quickly as he has only a 42k stack with a 140k average.

Update 00h00: STEVEN LOST A BIG POT

John Dolan pushes his last 33k and Steven, with TT, decides to go all'in. The board 7 6 3 / 5 / 4 gives the straight to his opponent and Steven is down to 42K!

Update 23h30: LEVEL 12

After a 20 minute break, the players are in the tournament zone to play the last 90 minute level of the day.

The blinds are now 1000/2000 and 300 of ante.

Update 22h40: UPDATE

Confrontation between Steven SB and Greg Mueller in BB. Our dutch player has now 83k.

88 players are still in the tournament.

Update 21h40: LEVEL 11

The tournament continues in level 11 with blinds at 800/1600 and a 200 ante.

Update 21h35: INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN VAN ZADELHOFF

Update 21h31: TOP 10 CHIP LEADERS

Viktor Blom 450,000
Darren Woods 310,000
Phil Ivey 296,000
Thomas Bichon 290,000
Dan Shak 275,000
Barny Boatman 255,000
Andrew Pantling 240,000
Rob Akery 225,000
Bojan Gledovic 220,000
Nick Schulman 218,000

Update 20h07: DINNER BREAK

The players have now a 90 minute dinner break.

Udpate 20h05: 107k!!!

Steven now has 107k after a confrontation (77 Vs AK) with Antonio Esfandiari.

Go Steven!

Update 20h00: TABLE CHANGE

Steven's table has been broken up and our Dutch player has been moved to a new table with Antonio Esfandiari and Barry Greenstein.

Udpate 19h35: NEW PLAYERS AT STEVEN'S TABLE

There are now some new faces at the Steven's table: Negreanu, Isildur, Timoshenko... Get 'em Steven!

Update 18h52: THE TOP 10 CHIP LEADERS

Phil Ivey 302,000
Viktor Blom 290,000
James Mitchell 210,000
Barny Boatman 185,000
McLean Karr 185,000
Andrew Pantling 183,000
Thomas Bichon 180,000
Nick Schulman 169,000
Darren Woods 161,000
Quinn Do 155,000

Update 18h40: PAYOUT STRUCTURE

1 830,401
2 513,049
3 376,829
4 278,945
5 208,119
6 156,530
7 118,643
8 90,617
9 69,754
10 54,114
11 54,114
12 54,114
13 42,454
14 42,454
15 42,454
16 33,285
17 33,285
18 33,285
19 26,400
20 26,400
21 26,400
22 26,400
23 26,400
24 26,400
25 26,400
26 26,400
27 26,400
28 21,106
29 21,106
30 21,106
31 21,106
32 21,106
33 21,106
34 21,106
35 21,106
36 21,106

Update 18h40: LEVEL 10

The blinds are now 600/1200/200.

Update 18h20: BREAK

20 minute break. During this break, Steven told us that he had no good hands during the past level. He now has 75k.

126 players are still in the tournament and the average is 82,400.

Update 16h50: LEVEL 9

The blinds are now 500/1000/100.

147 players are still in the tournament and they can continue to dream about the bracelet and the 830,401£ first place prize!

Let's go Steven!

Update 16h30: BREAK

Another 20 minute break in the Empire Casino. 149 players are still in and the average is 69,700.

Update 15h45: UPDATE

This was not a good level for Steven who lost a confrontation with a set over set (88 Vs TT) and some pots with a draw. Steven has now 80,000 chips.

Update 15h00: LEVEL 8

After the 20 minute break, the players are returning to their seats.

The blinds are now at 400/800 with a 100 ante.

Update 14h35: STEVEN DOUBLES UP

With blinds at 300/600, a player open raises at 1600. Mortensen and another player call and Steven with KK decides to squeeze at 7,8k... only Mortensen calls.

The flop 9h 7h 3d is showed and Steven Cbet to 15k. The Spanish player 3bet to 38k and after a short reflection, Steven shoves for 65k... snap call of Mortensen with KhQh for a flush draw.

The turn and the river will not help Mortensen and Steven has now 150k!!!

Update 14h00: UPDATE

Steven has been very aggressive so far today and he now has 67k.

Update 13h10: LEVEL 7

The blinds are now 300-600 and with a 75 ante.

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Welcome everybody for the live coverage of the WSOP-E in The Empire Casino of London.

346 players have participated in this Main Event. After 2 days of intensive poker, only 195 are still remaining. Among them, there’s our Everest Poker player, Steven van Zadelhoff. Steven is slightly above the average with 58k chips.

The temporary chip leader is James Mitchell who won the 2010 Irish Open and has now 178,850 chips. Just behind him is the November Nine, John Dolan with 173,700.

Among the survivors, there are a lot of big names as Antoinio Esfandiari, Phil Ivey, Carlos Mortensen, Nick Schulman, Phil Laak, Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, Liv Boeree, Freddy Deeb, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Patrik Antonius, Roland de Wolfe, Barry Greenstein, and Daniel Negreanu.