by Simon Young

Hold on tight, folks, as the second of our day twos is about to start. If yesterday was anything to go by, we are about to enter a blood-letting so intense Genghis Khan would have been impressed. The reason is the short stacks who managed to crawl into Day 2 now have to get early doubles ups or wither away like a flower that the family dog visits five times a day. Unfortunately for most, the latter is generally their unpleasant fate.

Joining today's field will be a whole bunch of PokerStars qualifiers looking to follow in the footsteps of Chris Moneymaker and win the whole show. Chris is one of three Team PokerStars players in the hunt today - the others being is Daniel Negreanu and Humberto Brenes.

Jeff Norman: In a great position
But top of the tree is Jeff Norman, our qualifier who starts today with a gigantic 281,300 chips.

We'll have the finishing chips stacks up from yesterday's 2A very soon. In the meantime, enjoy the show.