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Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Grand Prix De Paris is now in the books and over 100 players were sent to the rail. A field of just 61 players will start on Day 3 after 167 began Day 2, and no player has better positioning than Franck Pepe, who holds 432k in chips. Pepe already proved his ability to excel in a major tournament last year when he finished second in WPT Amneville.

Mikko Sundell, the Day 1 chip leader, continued to put on a strong showing and built his chip stack to just over 334k. The field is incredibly dangerous right now with top players such as Alexandre Brivot, Guillaume Darcourt, McLean Karr, Matt Waxman and Dori Yacoub all possessing chip stacks between 200k and 370k.

Some of the more notable eliminations on Day 2 included Mike Sexton of poker announcing fame and Dominik Nitsche. The latter player engaged in a showdown with Fred Magen. A pair of 9s was nowhere near strong enough to topple Magen’s pocket queens, especially given the additional queen that came in the flop.

Sexton took a genuinely bad beat late in the day when he pushed all in with pocket aces. He went up against Q-J of clubs, and three additional clubs on the flop all but secured his loss. He drew dead on the turn and river and quickly made his exit to the rail.

Some of the other players that were also met with elimination on Day 2 included Olivier Busquet, Casey Kastle, Tony Dunst, Joe Ebanks and Jeff Vertes.

Despite such a large number of eliminations, it could have been even worse given that Day 2 was unexpectedly cut short. That means that there will be some catching up to do on Day 3, when the remaining players will compete for a piece of the $3.16 million that’s available to the top 36 players.