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The second official day of action at the Epic Poker League Main Event 2 played out yesterday at Las Vegas’ Palms Resort Casino. Exactly 50 players started the day and the field was whittled down to just 23 with several levels of action.

Fabrice Soulier is the player occupying the top spot on the leaderboard, with a healthy chip stack of just over 453k.

A good portion of Soulier’s chips came in a massive pot taken from Greg Mueller. Soulier boldly called with 9-9 against Mueller’s Q-J suited. The board was no help for either player, giving Soulier the pot and Mueller the rail. A similar incident occurred later on, when Andrew Robl pushed all in with Q-10 suited against the K-6 suited of Soulier. Kings on both the flop and the river secured the pot for Soulier and eliminated Robl.

A number of other hugely popular fan favorites were sent to the rail as well, including Huck Seed, Tom Dwan, Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth and current WSOP November Niner Ben Lamb. All but three of the Pro/Am qualifiers are now eliminated as well, with the exceptions being Sean Getzwiller, Nam Le and Jaime Kaplan. Kaplan wasn’t as strong as on Day 1, but still managed to carry 245,000 chips into Day 3.

Some of the more notable names that still remain in the tournament include Matt Giants, Isaac Baron, Adam Levy and Erik Seidel, all of whom cashed in EPL Main Event 1. Chino Rheem, the outright winner of Main Event 1, remains as well. They’ll need to make the top 12 in order to be payed out this time.

Players will reconvene for Day 3 tomorrow, when the remaining players will be pared down to a final table of eight. A total of $2.3 million is up for grabs.