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12:30pm: Schemion wakes up with aces
Level 9 - Blinds 400/800 (ante 100)

Speaking of Ole Schemion and Fabian Quoss playing into the wee hours last night (see below), Schemion is also here and on one of the first hands of Day 2 happily picked up pocket aces versus Andrea Cortellazzi's pocket queens. A ten-high runout enabled Schemion to enjoy an early double-up to start his day.

That'll wake a person up. Schemion's table is likely on the alert as well now that he's suddenly up around 60,000 and an average stack. --MH

12:25pm: The TV table
Level 9 - Blinds 4000/800 (ante 100)

If you notice a lack of updates about Vanessa Selbst, Dominik Nitsche, Patrik Antonius, Justin Bonomo, Martins Adeniya or Fabrice Soulier over the first couple of levels there's a very good reason for that.

That table has been picked as the first feature table of the day and from today, for the first time ever, EPT Live is broadcasting cards-up coverage from Day 2 of the main event.

Below is the table in all it's glory. Eva Jiretorn is one of more than 120 players who won their way to this event via Spin and Go's on PokerStars.

12:11pm: Rise and shine, Fabian
Level 9 - Blinds 400/800 (ante 100)

Today's redraw has ended up creating a formidable collection of talent at Table 24, with Ismael Bojang, Fabian Quoss, Gabriel Nassif, Oliver Price, and Lex Veldhuis all sitting side-by-side in a row to take up more than half the table.

Quoss looked like he just stifled a yawn before an early hand was dealt, something for which he can be forgiven. After all, he and Ole Schemion were up after 5:30am playing the not-so-accurately titled Single Day High Roller last night, with those two slated to finish out the tournament later tonight.

Price asked Quoss about how things ended last night and he filled in the details. "Couldn't sleep right away when I got back," he added, noting how he's only going on a few hours of rest today.

Quoss and Schemion will be back at it at 9pm tonight, which means both will be able to play to the end of Day 2 before they get back at it. --MH

12:10pm: Newbies
Level 9 - Blinds 4000/800 (ante 100)

Here's the complete list of newbies for today. That's another 24 players, so I think that puts us at 1,091. That will still need to be confirmed.

Maximilian Hornung, Alan Rocamora Garcia, Christian Mosbach, Massimiliano Patroncini, Anatoly Gurtovoy, Nils Maibaum, Ilan Boujenah, Erik Seidel, Igor Kurganov, Ole Schemion, Alain Daien, Hector Alvarez Rodriguez, Payam Anskrina, Ramin Hajiyev, Mehmet Tezol, Pierre Ailment, Ivan Luca, Yingui Li, Salman Behbehani, Murad Akhundov, Dermot Blain, Bryn Kenney, John Juanda and Diego Zeiter. --HS

12:10pm: Two rooms
Level 9 - Blinds 4000/800 (ante 100)

So many players entered this event that play today - for now anyway - is spread across two rooms. There are 11 tables in use in what's more commonly the cash game area. We suspect these will be the tables that get broken first.

Among the big names currently plying their trade in this area are Yaxi Zhu, Galle Baumann, Nacho Barbero, Matas Cimbolas, Stephen Chidwick and Ole Schemion.

The latter two are sat side by side with Chidwick having position. Schemion only entered the event this morning as he's been too busy winning super high rollers (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/en/blog/tournaments/ept/2016/ept12-grand-final-schemion-scythes-throu-161399.shtml) and crushing one day €50,000 single-day high rollers (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/en/blog/tournaments/ept/2016/ept12-grand-final-50000-single-day-high--161415.shtml) to have time to do anything else. -- NW

12:02pm: Day 2 begins
Level 9 - Blinds 400/800 (ante 100)

Players have filled the spacious tournament room here at the Sporting Club and the first of six Day 2 levels is now under way. --MH

11:35am: How many more?
Level 9: Blinds 400/800 (ante 100)

It's Day 2 of the €5,000 main event at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final. Over the previous two days, 1,067 players have registered, making this the largest Grand Final main event in history.

But registration only closes just before play today, so there will likely be a few more joining the fray.

Take a look at the official website of the EPT, with tournament schedule, news and results.

Also all the schedule information is on the EPT App, which is available on both Android or IOS.

PokerStars Blog reporting team on the EPT12 Grand Final main event: Stephen Bartley, Martin Harris, Howard Swains and Nick Wright. Photography by Neil Stoddart. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog