Day 2 has seen us through to 77 players left (so far) and with the bubble at #73 we should get there relatively soon.

There are still 4-5 players out front – at this point Paul Klann, Andrew Walter, Michael Linster, Josh Field, and Daniel Suid are all around the 700K+ mark.

Level 1 of the $5000 + $300 tournament is about to end and registration in the tournament has already reached 35 players with a steady flow of people still joining. We’ll be posting some photos soon.

It looks like Matthew Salsberg is considering playing Event 8:

@playgroundpoker how late is registration open for the high roller?

— matt salsberg (@msalsberg) May 6, 2013

The dinner break has just ended and blinds have increased to 2.5K/5K/a500 with 109 players still alive. Players are in the money when they reach 72 remaining, so it’s very possible that we’ll get there tonight – certainly at the pace things have been going all day today.

The big stacks in the tournament are all at around 500K or above (up to around 700K) and the chip average is 204.2K.

As we get closer to the 45-minute long dinner break after level 6, the tournament continues to move at a pretty torrid pace. There are a few players who have built up some very large stacks, including current chip leader Robert Brown who is playing almost 700K, plus several players hovering around the 500K mark: Michael Linster, Josh Field, Brian Beggs, Eddie Bangash, and now Derek Lerner, who is just stacking a huge pot.

Blinds are currently 2K/4K/a500 and there are 15 minutes left before the break.

Day 2 has just completed its second break of the day (breaks are after every 2nd level) with 149 players left in contention of the 294 that started the day and 735 entries that started one of the Day 1s.

A quick tour of the tables during the break and we found there to be some very large stacks being built by Josh Field, Brian Beggs, Ravi Raghavan, Matt Kay, plus Players Club members Jeff Gross and Jonathan Driscoll. Also among the larger stacks are Andrew Graham, Jason Hallée, Shannon Shorr, Nick-Real Seide, Jason Duval, and Ronnie Bardah.

Day 2 is 15 minutes into the third level of the day and of the 294 players who started today the field is down to 204 who will be playing for 10 hour-long levels total today.

Of the high-profile players in the field, Players Club member Trishelle Cannatella, Joe Serock, and Darryll Fish have busted so far, and frequent Playground players Ben Menache, Dany Hamel-Boulay, Jonathan G (Jon14), Jino Veizi, and Garen Galenti have also been eliminated.