We started with 176. We ended with just 10. Welcome to the day of execution referred to as Day 2 of UKIPT6 London.
Whittling 176 players right down to 10 in only 11 levels of play in a well-structured event just like the UKIPT may need seemed far-fetched initially of the day, but that's exactly what happened. And people remaining 10 players are a skilled bunch indeed. Of course, only eight could make the official final table, so we'll need to lose two players before the large money jumps come into force.
Amazing day for Usman Siddique
Usman Siddique is our chip leader going into tomorrow's final day of play with 4,337,000, but for the last level it was a toss up between him and Warren Russell, who's not far behind with 3,894,000.
Siddique had quite a remarkable day. He became the chip leader a few levels into the day and from then on he always had one of the most room's biggest stacks. He even won the hand of the day, which we simply need to inform you about in just a little detail later on this report (you'll be able to read the entire hand at 8.29pm in our Day 2 live updates).
The biggest name left in our field is that of Jack Salter with 1,231,000, the person who finished 2nd on the EPT10 Grand Final for €765,000. He's had a very good past 12 months, notching up live cashes of greater than $700,000, so it will become interesting to look if he can bag his first UKIPT title.
Jack Salter's a contented man
Ready to enroll in PokerStars? Click here to get an account.Joe Hindry and Jack Hardcastle are both through to our final day, but what's interesting concerning the two up-and-comers is that they are actually good mates from the similar town in Portsmouth. Hindry ended play with 1,622,000 while Hardcastle is our short stack with 365,000. Hindry found a double up in a single of the final hands of the night when his pocket aces held up against Xiaoyang Luo's pocket queens. Luo busted in 11th shortly after for £5,640.
Play up Pompey! Hindry and Hardcastle
They'll be joined by Scotland's David Docherty - who celebrated his 29th birthday yesterday - with 1,283,000, Daniel Harwood with 1,220,000, David Gassian with 820,000, Morten Halvorsen with 720,000, and Anatolis Jevtejev with 636,000.
Docherty's going for the birthday win
The original plan was to either play 10 levels or all the way down to a last table of eight, but because the night went on and we got closer and towards that final table goal, an additional level of play was added in to the mix.
Day 2 is clearly the primary time we've all the field within the same room on the same time, meaning all Day 1 chip leaders could mix together to create some massive pots. There has been an abundance of these today - Richard Kellett flopped quads and Simon Dryan made a royal flush!
Iceland's Daniel Palsson won't be getting any sleep tonight, that's needless to say. Within the hand of the day, Palsson tried to isolate a small all-in player by moving all-in himself with ace-queen for 940,000 - a large stack on the time. However, he'd misread who was within the big blind - thinking it was another short-stacked player, when it was actually chip leader Siddique who awoke with aces. Remember that the aces held and eliminated both players. It was a dramatic hand and a crushing blow for Palsson, however it set Siddique up for the remainder of the day.
The bubble burst firstly of Level 16 when Aaron Lincoln's 6,500 shove with ace-king couldn't beat the flopped straight of Luke Reeves. 95 players cashed, and a few of the notable names who managed to make the cash included breakout player of the year nominee Rainer Kempe (83rd - £1,300); former November Niners Antoine Saout (80th - £1,300) and Felex Stephensen (77th - £1,300); Lithuania's Matas Cimbolas (70th - £1,470); PokerStars staff member Richard Connolly (65th - £1,470); Spain's Leo Margets (61st - £1,470) and Diego Gomez (46th - £1,660); former Irish Open winner James Mitchell (17th - £3,780), and British pro Richard Kellett (16th - £3,780).
James Mitchell - when he had chips
Richard Kellett finished in 16th
Here's how our final ten players might be sitting once they return tomorrow:
| Jack Salter | United Kingdom | PokerStars Player | 1 | 1 | 1,231,000 |
| Usman Siddique | United Kingdom | 1 | 3 | 4,337,000 | |
| David Docherty | United Kingdom | PokerStars Qualifier | 1 | 4 | 1,283,000 |
| Joe Hindry | United Kingdom | 1 | 6 | 1,622,000 | |
| Jack Hardcastle | United Kingdom | 1 | 8 | 365,000 | |
| Warren Russell | United Kingdom | 3 | 2 | 3,894,000 | |
| David Gassian | France | 3 | 3 | 820,000 | |
| Daniel Harwood | United Kingdom | 3 | 4 | 1,220,000 | |
| Morten Halvorsen | Norway | PokerStars Player | 3 | 6 | 720,000 |
| Anatolis Jevtejev | Lithuania | 3 | 7 | 636,000 |
It was a crazy day of action, particularly over the past level of the night. That suggests we're arrange for an unbelievable day of poker right from the off tomorrow - you will not need to miss it. Play kicks off at 12pm so remember to join us here at the PokerStars Blog.
PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 London: Marc Convey and Jack Stanton. Photos by Mickey May, who will do an overly high-pitched squeak right to your ear if you happen to steal her photos. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog
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