This post contains live updates from day two, levels 15 and 16 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level 15: 2,000-4,000 (400 ante)
Level 16: 2,500-5,000 (500 ante).

9pm: Overnight chips
The full chip count for the remaining 17 players is on the chip count page.

8.45pm: How they went
Phew. After some to-ing and fro-ing when they were down to 19, eventually two went out on one hand. Three players were all in pre-flop, and the player with the worst hand had the biggest stack. The hands were:

Kaspars Renga: [ac][as]
Kimmo Kurko: [qc][qh]
Andrius Tapinas: [10d][10h]

In chips, Tapinas covered Kurko who covered Renga.

Kurko decided to play his PokerStars Blog One Time Chip™ here, and who could blame him. Tapinas, however, kept his in it cellophane wrapper, and that proved to be the wisest policy. The flop came [2d][6s][10s] and the turn [9h] and river [4h] helped nobody. Kurko and Renga were knocked out. Tapinas goes into tomorrow. As do we.

A full wrap will follow, but the key info is this: there are 17 players left and James Keys of Great Britain is at the chip lead. He has 442,000, with Michael Fardan second, with 372,000.

8.40pm: Two busted, day over
Details to come.

8.25pm: Eliminations
Joachim Buch was the 19th player to fall, leaving us one short of the end of the day. The full list of prizewinners is on the prizewinner's page. We've recently said goodbye to:

21 - Timo Peri, Finland
22 - Robert Lundh, Sweden
23 - Peter Eastgate, Denmark
24 - Sigurd Eskeland, Norway
25 - Raigo Aasmaa, Estonia
26 - Joel Sallinen, Finland
27 - Heiki Laja, Estonia
28 - Eduards Rakuss, Latvia

8.20pm: Another one for Keys
When you're a dominant chip leader, you can take a flier with pocket fives and plenty of times you'll end up knocking someone out. So it proved when James Keys had [5d][5c] and Joachim Buch had [jd][9s]. They got it all in pre-flop and the board ran [10h][3c][6h][2c][as] and Buch read no more.

8.10pm: Down to 18
No, we're not there yet. But the recently-announced tournament schedule is that we're playing down to 18 players tonight and to a winner tomorrow.

8.05pm: Eastgate out
The World Champion has left the Baltics. Well, not the whole region yet, but his participation in the Baltic Festival is done. He limped from the button, and Johan Nilsson called from the small blind, with Patrik Kaltrud checking the big. The flop came [as]kc][3c] and after the two blinds checked, Eastgate made a small bet, which only Nilsson called. The turn was [4d] and it went check, bet, call again. And the river was [5s], which Nilsson checked again. Eastgate pushed and Nilsson called instantly. He had [ac][2s] for the straight and Eastgate mucked. That is that.

8pm: Chips
Those long-awaited new chip counts are in, and they're in the usual place, which is the chip count page. James Keys is way ahead, with Michael Fardan on his shoulder and Thomas Partridge not much further back.

Don't forget, you can get all the crucial tournament info by following the links in the widget on the right hand side of this page, or by clicking the red links here.

CLICK HERE FOR CHIP COUNTS
CLICK HERE FOR PRIZEWINNERS TO DATE

7.50pm: Another one down
The day 1b chip leader Aleksandr Lozkin is out. He's made the money, but it's a min cash, after he moved all in for his last 40,000 or so with [ad][10c] and was in kicker trouble against Patrik Kaltrud's [ac][js]. He had a royal flush draw to chop on the flop of [10h][jh][qh] but turn and river were dry and Lozkin departed.

7.45pm: Back!
The remaining 29 players are back, down now to four tables. There's a World Champion among them, let's not forget.

Full chip counts are on their way. In the meantime, spend some time with Tony G, who was preparing for the High Roller event when our video blog team caught up with him.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels 15 and 16 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level 15: 2,000-4,000 (400 ante)
Level 16: 2,500-5,000 (500 ante).

9pm: Overnight chips
The full chip count for the remaining 17 players is on the chip count page.

8.45pm: How they went
Phew. After some to-ing and fro-ing when they were down to 19, eventually two went out on one hand. Three players were all in pre-flop, and the player with the worst hand had the biggest stack. The hands were:

Kaspars Renga: [ac][as]
Kimmo Kurko: [qc][qh]
Andrius Tapinas: [10d][10h]

In chips, Tapinas covered Kurko who covered Renga.

Kurko decided to play his PokerStars Blog One Time Chip™ here, and who could blame him. Tapinas, however, kept his in it cellophane wrapper, and that proved to be the wisest policy. The flop came [2d][6s][10s] and the turn [9h] and river [4h] helped nobody. Kurko and Renga were knocked out. Tapinas goes into tomorrow. As do we.

A full wrap will follow, but the key info is this: there are 17 players left and James Keys of Great Britain is at the chip lead. He has 442,000, with Michael Fardan second, with 372,000.

8.40pm: Two busted, day over
Details to come.

8.25pm: Eliminations
Joachim Buch was the 19th player to fall, leaving us one short of the end of the day. The full list of prizewinners is on the prizewinner's page. We've recently said goodbye to:

21 - Timo Peri, Finland
22 - Robert Lundh, Sweden
23 - Peter Eastgate, Denmark
24 - Sigurd Eskeland, Norway
25 - Raigo Aasmaa, Estonia
26 - Joel Sallinen, Finland
27 - Heiki Laja, Estonia
28 - Eduards Rakuss, Latvia

8.20pm: Another one for Keys
When you're a dominant chip leader, you can take a flier with pocket fives and plenty of times you'll end up knocking someone out. So it proved when James Keys had [5d][5c] and Joachim Buch had [jd][9s]. They got it all in pre-flop and the board ran [10h][3c][6h][2c][as] and Buch read no more.

8.10pm: Down to 18
No, we're not there yet. But the recently-announced tournament schedule is that we're playing down to 18 players tonight and to a winner tomorrow.

8.05pm: Eastgate out
The World Champion has left the Baltics. Well, not the whole region yet, but his participation in the Baltic Festival is done. He limped from the button, and Johan Nilsson called from the small blind, with Patrik Kaltrud checking the big. The flop came [as]kc][3c] and after the two blinds checked, Eastgate made a small bet, which only Nilsson called. The turn was [4d] and it went check, bet, call again. And the river was [5s], which Nilsson checked again. Eastgate pushed and Nilsson called instantly. He had [ac][2s] for the straight and Eastgate mucked. That is that.

8pm: Chips
Those long-awaited new chip counts are in, and they're in the usual place, which is the chip count page. James Keys is way ahead, with Michael Fardan on his shoulder and Thomas Partridge not much further back.

Don't forget, you can get all the crucial tournament info by following the links in the widget on the right hand side of this page, or by clicking the red links here.

CLICK HERE FOR CHIP COUNTS
CLICK HERE FOR PRIZEWINNERS TO DATE

7.50pm: Another one down
The day 1b chip leader Aleksandr Lozkin is out. He's made the money, but it's a min cash, after he moved all in for his last 40,000 or so with [ad][10c] and was in kicker trouble against Patrik Kaltrud's [ac][js]. He had a royal flush draw to chop on the flop of [10h][jh][qh] but turn and river were dry and Lozkin departed.

7.45pm: Back!
The remaining 29 players are back, down now to four tables. There's a World Champion among them, let's not forget.

Full chip counts are on their way. In the meantime, spend some time with Tony G, who was preparing for the High Roller event when our video blog team caught up with him.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels 12 and 13 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level 13: 1,200-2,400 (300 ante)
Level 14: 1,500-3,000 (300 ante).

7.25pm: A breather
Players are now on a 15 minute break and that will allow us to get a full run down of the chip counts after a breathless bubble-some level.

7.20pm: Heinanen, the great survivor
Petri Heinanen, who survived a couple of all ins around bubble time, has just done it again. This time he shoved over Matias Knaapinen's button raise and Knaapinen called. They showed:

Heinanen: [qh][10s]
Knaapinen: [kc][js]

And when the board ran out [10h][3d][9d][ah][5h] that ten on the flop took it down for Heinanen.

7.15pm: Brit on Brit action accounts for Pritchard
Thomas Partridge and Joe Pritchard got it all in pre-flop. Partridge had [jd][jc] and Pritchard [ah][9h], meaning Partridge was already ahead. Although Pritchard picked up plenty of outs on the flop of [8h][4h][8c], the turn [8d] and river [9c] didn't help. Pritchard becomes our 31st placed finisher.

7pm: Double up for Ellis, plus chip leader action
Claus Bek Nielsen opened to 8,000 and Natasha Ellis moved her short stack of 25,000 all in. Nielsen eventually made the call and showed [ks][js], which was almost the same as Ellis's [kd][jd]. But that "almost" played: the flop had two diamonds on it, and there was another on the river, giving the flush, and the 55,000 pot to Ellis.

Meanwhile, these two Brits are the probably chip leaders at this stage:
Thomas Patridge: 240,000
James Keys: 380,000

All stacks are approximate. At the end of this level we'll do a full count and we'll know precisely where we're at.

6.50pm: A cash in three continents for Ellis
As an on-off PokerStars qualifier, Natasha Ellis has travelled a long way across the world, popping up on the LAPT, the APPT and now the Baltic Poker Festival. She has now cashed in her third continent as a PokerStars qualifier and is still going strong.

Another player who has earned quite enough congratulations, but deserves all the plaudits he gets, is the reigning World Champion Peter Eastgate. He has also made the money here, something he seems to do for fun. Again he's the last remaining Team PokerStars Pro to boot.

6.45pm: Bubble drama
The bubble has burst, and it's the Austrian player Christian Schneider who departs in 33rd, the unluckiest spot in the Baltics. It was a battle of the blinds when it happened, with two of the big stacks going at it. Michael Fardan raised with [ad][qc] in the small blind, Schneider found kings in the big blind, and they got it all in. The flop was all right for the kings: [7c][7h][9c] but the turn was an ace, which sent Fardan into the lead. He faded the king on the river and Schneider was gone.

6.30pm: Closing in on the bubble
That was the last significant action of level 13 and we're now into the next one. Which is level 14, following custom. The blinds here are 1,500-3,000 (300 ante) and 34 players remain. It's bubble time very soon - and don't the video blog team know it:

6.25pm: Englishman No 2
At the same time that Keys was still piling up that huge stack won in the pot against Katja Thater, his countryman Thomas Partridge was all in on the table next door. The board was all out [9c][5s][2d][10s][7h] and Partridge was all in. It was a massive pot against Patrik Kaltrud. Eventually the Norwegian player folded, giving Partridge everything in the middle. When he counted it into stacks, it was close to 180,000.

6.15pm: Thater unlocked by Keys
It was almost certainly the biggest pot of the tournament so far and it has just accounted for the Team PokerStars Pro Katja Thater. She has been on a tear today, and got beyond 110,000 at one point, which is 85,000 more than what she started with. But after three and four betting pre-flop, it was kings against jacks for the money. The British player James Keys had the jacks, and Thater had the kings. But there was a jack on the flop and that's a cruel, cruel blow for Thater. "It's been two years like this," she said, as she reported the details of her own demise.

Keys is past 220,000 and is leading this thing.

6.10pm: Shoving, calling, doubling
There's already about 15,000 in the pot and a flop of [ah][7h][5c] out when Matias Knaapinen and Einar Olafsson get involved. Knaapinen checks, and Olafsson bets 6,600 but is then forced to ask for more. Knaapinen check-raises to 14,000. Olafsson answers, moving all in with a stack that covers Kaapininen. That's fine: Knaapinen calls instantly and shows [5h][5d], well ahead of Olafsson's [ac][6h]. The turn and river are blank and Knaapinen's set is good enough to double up.

6pm: Ellis triples
Natasha Ellis was down, and now she's up again. Somehow - I didn't see it - she was down to her last 11,200 in chips and she got them all in against two players. One of them, Ville Wallin of Finland, she had covered, another Joachim Buch, she did not. And it was Buch in the lead when they showed their hands pre-flop:

Buch: [ac][js]
Ellis: [kh][9h]
Wallin: [qh][5s]

The flop only favoured one of them. It came nine high. And then Ellis managed to fade all running cards, a jack or an ace or a queen, and all but tripled up to around 35,000 total.

5.45pm: Brits versus Tönsberg versus Katja Thater
There's was I getting excited about four Britons still in the Main Event -- James Keys, Thomas Partridge, Natasha Ellis and Joe Pritchard -- when the residents of Tönsberg, Norway, go and ruin the party. Isn't that always the way? Until recently, Tönsberg had three players remaining in the tournament -- Frode Langemyr, Patrik Kalterud, and Morten Ramm -- which is impressive enough, even before you learn that Tönsberg is a town of about 36,000 inhabitants.

Ramm, the comedian, has had his last laugh, though. As has, in the last five minutes, Langemyr. He ran kings into Katja Thater's aces and the Team PokerStars Pro now has more than 120,000. Right in the mix.

5.40pm: Tables
With the Main Event now down to five tables a lot of the big stacks are obviously close by one another. Kimmo Kurko is now betting immediately into Claus Bek Nielsen, for example, which can't be fun.

5.31pm: The leader
Here's Claus Bek Nielsen today:

And this is his closest challenger, Michael Fardan.

5.30pm: Refreshed
They're due back from the dinner break at 5.30pm, and when they return they will have chip stacks detailed on the chip count page. Claus Bek Nielsen is out front, but he's hotly pursued by his countryman Michael Fardan.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels 12 and 13 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level 13: 1,200-2,400 (300 ante)
Level 14: 1,500-3,000 (300 ante).

7.25pm: A breather
Players are now on a 15 minute break and that will allow us to get a full run down of the chip counts after a breathless bubble-some level.

7.20pm: Heinanen, the great survivor
Petri Heinanen, who survived a couple of all ins around bubble time, has just done it again. This time he shoved over Matias Knaapinen's button raise and Knaapinen called. They showed:

Heinanen: [qh][10s]
Knaapinen: [kc][js]

And when the board ran out [10h][3d][9d][ah][5h] that ten on the flop took it down for Heinanen.

7.15pm: Brit on Brit action accounts for Pritchard
Thomas Partridge and Joe Pritchard got it all in pre-flop. Partridge had [jd][jc] and Pritchard [ah][9h], meaning Partridge was already ahead. Although Pritchard picked up plenty of outs on the flop of [8h][4h][8c], the turn [8d] and river [9c] didn't help. Pritchard becomes our 31st placed finisher.

7pm: Double up for Ellis, plus chip leader action
Claus Bek Nielsen opened to 8,000 and Natasha Ellis moved her short stack of 25,000 all in. Nielsen eventually made the call and showed [ks][js], which was almost the same as Ellis's [kd][jd]. But that "almost" played: the flop had two diamonds on it, and there was another on the river, giving the flush, and the 55,000 pot to Ellis.

Meanwhile, these two Brits are the probably chip leaders at this stage:
Thomas Patridge: 240,000
James Keys: 380,000

All stacks are approximate. At the end of this level we'll do a full count and we'll know precisely where we're at.

6.50pm: A cash in three continents for Ellis
As an on-off PokerStars qualifier, Natasha Ellis has travelled a long way across the world, popping up on the LAPT, the APPT and now the Baltic Poker Festival. She has now cashed in her third continent as a PokerStars qualifier and is still going strong.

Another player who has earned quite enough congratulations, but deserves all the plaudits he gets, is the reigning World Champion Peter Eastgate. He has also made the money here, something he seems to do for fun. Again he's the last remaining Team PokerStars Pro to boot.

6.45pm: Bubble drama
The bubble has burst, and it's the Austrian player Christian Schneider who departs in 33rd, the unluckiest spot in the Baltics. It was a battle of the blinds when it happened, with two of the big stacks going at it. Michael Fardan raised with [ad][qc] in the small blind, Schneider found kings in the big blind, and they got it all in. The flop was all right for the kings: [7c][7h][9c] but the turn was an ace, which sent Fardan into the lead. He faded the king on the river and Schneider was gone.

6.30pm: Closing in on the bubble
That was the last significant action of level 13 and we're now into the next one. Which is level 14, following custom. The blinds here are 1,500-3,000 (300 ante) and 34 players remain. It's bubble time very soon - and don't the video blog team know it:

6.25pm: Englishman No 2
At the same time that Keys was still piling up that huge stack won in the pot against Katja Thater, his countryman Thomas Partridge was all in on the table next door. The board was all out [9c][5s][2d][10s][7h] and Partridge was all in. It was a massive pot against Patrik Kaltrud. Eventually the Norwegian player folded, giving Partridge everything in the middle. When he counted it into stacks, it was close to 180,000.

6.15pm: Thater unlocked by Keys
It was almost certainly the biggest pot of the tournament so far and it has just accounted for the Team PokerStars Pro Katja Thater. She has been on a tear today, and got beyond 110,000 at one point, which is 85,000 more than what she started with. But after three and four betting pre-flop, it was kings against jacks for the money. The British player James Keys had the jacks, and Thater had the kings. But there was a jack on the flop and that's a cruel, cruel blow for Thater. "It's been two years like this," she said, as she reported the details of her own demise.

Keys is past 220,000 and is leading this thing.

6.10pm: Shoving, calling, doubling
There's already about 15,000 in the pot and a flop of [ah][7h][5c] out when Matias Knaapinen and Einar Olafsson get involved. Knaapinen checks, and Olafsson bets 6,600 but is then forced to ask for more. Knaapinen check-raises to 14,000. Olafsson answers, moving all in with a stack that covers Kaapininen. That's fine: Knaapinen calls instantly and shows [5h][5d], well ahead of Olafsson's [ac][6h]. The turn and river are blank and Knaapinen's set is good enough to double up.

6pm: Ellis triples
Natasha Ellis was down, and now she's up again. Somehow - I didn't see it - she was down to her last 11,200 in chips and she got them all in against two players. One of them, Ville Wallin of Finland, she had covered, another Joachim Buch, she did not. And it was Buch in the lead when they showed their hands pre-flop:

Buch: [ac][js]
Ellis: [kh][9h]
Wallin: [qh][5s]

The flop only favoured one of them. It came nine high. And then Ellis managed to fade all running cards, a jack or an ace or a queen, and all but tripled up to around 35,000 total.

5.45pm: Brits versus Tönsberg versus Katja Thater
There's was I getting excited about four Britons still in the Main Event -- James Keys, Thomas Partridge, Natasha Ellis and Joe Pritchard -- when the residents of Tönsberg, Norway, go and ruin the party. Isn't that always the way? Until recently, Tönsberg had three players remaining in the tournament -- Frode Langemyr, Patrik Kalterud, and Morten Ramm -- which is impressive enough, even before you learn that Tönsberg is a town of about 36,000 inhabitants.

Ramm, the comedian, has had his last laugh, though. As has, in the last five minutes, Langemyr. He ran kings into Katja Thater's aces and the Team PokerStars Pro now has more than 120,000. Right in the mix.

5.40pm: Tables
With the Main Event now down to five tables a lot of the big stacks are obviously close by one another. Kimmo Kurko is now betting immediately into Claus Bek Nielsen, for example, which can't be fun.

5.31pm: The leader
Here's Claus Bek Nielsen today:

And this is his closest challenger, Michael Fardan.

5.30pm: Refreshed
They're due back from the dinner break at 5.30pm, and when they return they will have chip stacks detailed on the chip count page. Claus Bek Nielsen is out front, but he's hotly pursued by his countryman Michael Fardan.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels 11 and 12 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level 12: 1,000-2,000 (200 ante)
Level 11: 800-1,600 (200 ante).

2.45pm: Nice catch for Katja
At the last break (a matter of 15 minutes ago), Katja Thater had 16,000. She now has more than 50,000, thanks to a flopped set of sevens to crack kings. Nice catch.

Johan Nilsson has also had a crushing 15 minutes. He's up to 140,000 now. In other tournament news, the overnight chip leader Bo Erichsen has just been moved to the unenviable seat immediately to Peter Eastgate's right.

It's been a steady day for Erichsen so far: he has about 58,000 still, slightly fewer than his starting total, but still healthy. Eastgate is getting involved in pretty much every pot, though, so Erichsen's stack could start to move in either direction very soon.

2.35pm: Leader
"Is it possible that a player called Yet Sang Wong could have 111,000 chips?" asked chip counter, media co-ordinator, surrogate mother to 500 poker players across the world, Mad Harper. It was possible, and it was the truth. At the end of the last level, the Dutchman had edged ahead of even Peter Eastgate and Johan Nilsson. I dropped by to see how he'd done it and found Wong in a pot against Sigurd Eskeland. The flop was [kd][kh][4d] and Wong checked, Eskeland bet 4,500 and now Wong raised to 13,800. Called by Eskeland. The turn was [6c] and this time Wong led out, making it 22,500. Eskeland folded this time, but proved that yes, it is possible that he's gone from 31,000 overnight to more than 110,000.

2.25pm: Chips!
The full chip counts are now in. Check out the chip count page for all the info.

2.20pm: Return
Players have returned from their break and we're off again. We took an official chip count at the break, the findings of which will be on the chip count page as soon as possible. This man, Johan Nilsson, will be near the top.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels 11 and 12 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level 12: 1,000-2,000 (200 ante)
Level 11: 800-1,600 (200 ante).

4.25pm: Afternoon tea Dinner
With that, we're off to dinner. There are 45 players left as we continue to slice through the field. I'm fairly sure that it's Claus Bek Nielsen still in charge at the moment with close to 200,000, although he's lost a bit from his high point. A full chip count is currently being undertaken, which will appear on the chip count page as soon as it's done.

Back in a few minutes. Well, 60.

4.20pm: Double up
Nice time to double up for Jari Karkkainen. He was the overnight short stack with only 6,900, but now he has close to 60,000 after the most recent hand. I think they got it all in pre-flop - him and Eric Brix that is - and Brix had [9d][9s] to Karkkainen's [ac][js]. The board was kind to the Finn: it ran [ks][3d][10d][4s][qh] for the straight.

Brix is down to about 20,000.

4.05pm: Dinner preparations
There are 15 minutes until the dinner break, and some will enjoy their meal more than others. For instance Katja Thater and Imre Leibold will be savouring it: the Team PokerStars Pro has now risen to around 95,000, while Leibold, after despatching JC Alvarado, is getting somewhere close. They are also neighbours on table 13.

Similarly closely positioned are Natasha Ellis and Thomas Partridge. They're sitting in the two and three seat of table 12, and each have around 80,000. They've also discovered that they are two of about four British players in the field. For once in Tallinn, British journalists do not outnumber players!

3.55pm: Alvarado downed
The Team PokerStars Pro JC Alvarado has endured a day today that is almost the flipside of his opener. Back then, he soared close to the chip lead, but now he is out having never gained any traction at any point. His elimination hand seemed to be standard. He was down to less than about 18,000 and when Imre Leibold opened to 5,000, Alvarado called in his big blind but then shoved instantly on the flop of [9d][ks][6c]. Most observers, including Leibold, could see that this was pre-meditated, and Leibold instantly called with [jh][jc]. Alvarado's pocket threes weren't good enough.

The pro from Mexico is now free to focus on this evening's High Roller event, which is starting at 5.30pm.

3.50pm: Oh, I should probably tell you
We're now into level 12, where the blinds are up to 1,000-2,000 (200 ante) and there are 53 players left. We've already gone through about half the field, but there's still some way to go.

3.45pm: Ace-king good
Two hands played out simultaneously on neighbouring tables, with A-K the winner both times. "No diamond, no diamond!" came the cry from Kimmo Kurko on table 23, who was involved in a three-way coup. He had [ah][kh], Einar Olafsson had [ad][ks] but the player really at risk was Dmitriy Michnik with [8s][8h]. The flop was out, with two diamonds on it and an ace. Michnik's prospects were looking bleak, and Olafsson had the chance to make a backdoor flush to win a huge pot. As it turned out the diamonds didn't come, and neither did an eight, meaning Olafsson and Kurko chopped Michnik's chips between them.

There was a good deal of fists thumped on tables a few metres to the left. There, Madis Ormisson and Sami Toivonen got all their chips in pre-flop, Ormisson with [9h][9c] and Toivonen with [ah][ks]. Once the [kh] flopped the fist pumping began and it didn't end until Ormisson was sent packing.

3.30pm: Take me to your new chip leader
Claus Bek Nielsen, who has been looking somewhat alien-esque in his pointed hood and black shades, is now a runaway chip leader here. "He had a set," explained a media representative with characteristic verbosity. However he managed it, he's up to about 250,000.

3.25pm: Video, video
Here's the Danish tennis star Kenneth Carlsen, and the Norwegian comedian Morten Ramm, having a natter.

3.15pm: Leader to rail in three levels
Bo Erichsen, the overnight chip leader, is now out. It had seemed that maybe Peter Eastgate might be his assassin, since Erichsen had been moved to his right, but it turns out that the danger was lurking on the other side, in the shape of Michael Fardan. Erichsen raised under-the-gun and Fardan called in the big blind with [kd][qd]. The flop came [10s][9c][7d] and Fardan checked. Erichsen bet -- he had pocket eights -- and Fardan called. The turn came [jd] which was a monster for Fardan, giving him the nut straight and the second-nut flush draw. The [9d] on the river only improved matters for Fardan.

Erichsen was crippled, down to about 4,000, and that went in on the next hand. Out.

3pm: Ellis on the up
Natasha Ellis has been trying to get out to see the Tallinn Old Town since day one, but her continued participation here has so far scuppered any sight-seeing. She ground through an unexciting day 1a, finishing with about 22,000 after stealing blinds late on, and then headed to the bar in the Swissotel for a nightcap. Day 1b, the scheduled day for tourism, was largely spent recovering from that nightcap, and now today she is back at the tables - and thriving. After a slow couple of levels, she found kings to double up through a pair of tens. And now she has just knocked out Marja Suonvieri, a PokerStars qualifier from Finland, in a classic queens against A-K duel. In this event, Ellis' [qd][qs] beat Suonvieri's [ah][ks] all in pre-flop. Ellis took the 15,000 and is now past 50,000. The Old Town will still be there next week.

2.45pm: Nice catch for Katja
At the last break (a matter of 15 minutes ago), Katja Thater had 16,000. She now has more than 50,000, thanks to a flopped set of sevens to crack kings. Nice catch.

Johan Nilsson has also had a crushing 15 minutes. He's up to 140,000 now. In other tournament news, the overnight chip leader Bo Erichsen has just been moved to the unenviable seat immediately to Peter Eastgate's right.

It's been a steady day for Erichsen so far: he has about 58,000 still, slightly fewer than his starting total, but still healthy. Eastgate is getting involved in pretty much every pot, though, so Erichsen's stack could start to move in either direction very soon.

2.35pm: Leader
"Is it possible that a player called Yet Sang Wong could have 111,000 chips?" asked chip counter, media co-ordinator, surrogate mother to 500 poker players across the world, Mad Harper. It was possible, and it was the truth. At the end of the last level, the Dutchman had edged ahead of even Peter Eastgate and Johan Nilsson. I dropped by to see how he'd done it and found Wong in a pot against Sigurd Eskeland. The flop was [kd][kh][4d] and Wong checked, Eskeland bet 4,500 and now Wong raised to 13,800. Called by Eskeland. The turn was [6c] and this time Wong led out, making it 22,500.

Eskeland folded this time, but proved that yes, it is possible that he's gone from 31,000 overnight to more than 110,000.

2.25pm: Chips!
The full chip counts are now in. Check out the chip count page for all the info.

2.20pm: Return
Players have returned from their break and we're off again. We took an official chip count at the break, the findings of which will be on the chip count page as soon as possible. This man, Johan Nilsson, will be near the top.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels nine and 10 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level ten: 600-1,200 (100 ante)
Level nine: 400-800 (100 ante).

2.10pm: Level over
That's the end of level 10, so while players take a break, have a watch of a video:

2.05pm: Partridge plucks at Thater
Katja Thater raised to 3,200 from early position and Thomas Partridge, in the cut off seat, made it 6,000. Thater called. The flop came [5s][3s][qs] and Thater bet 6,000. Partridge moved all in for 26,000 and that sent Thater into the tank. "You have only one spade?" she asked, but receiving no reply from Partridge, she mucked. Partridge showed [ah][3c] and then quickly disappeared for the break at the end of the level.

2pm: Elite series poker
Johan Nilsson is one of the best bridge players in Sweden, and has been on the board of the biggest bridge club in Europe for 16 years. This week, he's in the Baltics for poker - and he's adapted pretty well indeed. He's our chip leader at the moment, with about 115,000, and that's already close to double what he started with. Late last night, he bagged up 65,000 and today the chips have been flooding in. He knocked out two short stacks in the first level, when his A-Q out-flopped pocket sevens and K-J, and then he was the gracious beneficiary of a mis-judge all in shove by a player with pocket fives. By the point the money went in, his big blind 10-7 had made two pair. The second level is drawing to a close, and the Swede looks likely to have the most at the moment.

1.40pm: Pre-flop aggression
Madis Ormisson, with about 32,000, made it 3,600 to play from the hijack and Christian Schneider, from the button, re-raised to 9,000 from his stack of close to 50,000. Antti Kärkkäinen, who covered them both, asked for a count from Schneider, before announcing that he was all in, an increasingly common four bet. Neither of the others fancied risking their whole stack and quietly got out the way.

1.35pm: Thater picking her spots
Katja Thater, having made a successful squeeze play earlier, has just demonstrated the benefit of taking every situation as it comes. She mucked A-K pre-flop this time after a raise and a flat call when she was on the button felt a little suspicious. She was right: one opponent had pocket kings, another pocket nines and a nine on the flop ended that one.

1.20pm: Lozkin loving it
Yesterday's chip leader Aleksandr Lozkin has started today where he left off last night. He had 65,300 over night, but now he has close to 95,000 and is clearly keen to make a charge on this one.

JC Alvarado, who was also among the chip leaders on his day one, has found it slightly tougher going today. He is down to about 45,000, although will always be adding a few more. Just recently, he looked at a cut-off raise to 2,500 from Shawn Grant and immediately bumped it up to 6,200 from the button. Grant folded.

1.10pm: Thater squeezing
Thomas Partridge opened to 3,000 under-the-gun and Mike Beck Meincke called from the cut off. Katja Thater was in the big blind and had seen enough: she moved all in for about 21,000. Patridge winced and folded; Meincke clearly considered calling, but eventually he folded to, showing pocket eights. That saw no reason to return any information, sliding her cards into the muck and adding another six grand to her stack.

1.05pm: New level
We've effortlessly moved into the second level of the day, the 10th overall. An even 100 players made it this far, with Peter Eastgate leading them.

12.50pm: Eastgate leader
Peter Eastgate has doubled up in what seems to be the biggest pot of the day so far. With [7c][8c] in the hole, Eastgate defended his big blind to an early-position raise from Tero Jokela. The flop came 10-4-6 rainbow, but the real action kicked off when the turn brought a 9. All the money went in and Eastgate's straight had bettered Jokela's pocket jacks, sending Eastgate up to around 100,000. He's the first player into six figures.

12.40pm: Nielsen on the rack
Claus Bek Nielsen and his neighbour got involved in an ugly pre-flop raising battle that proved costly to the Dane. It was folded to Nielsen on the button, who made it 2,200. The small blind, Mikhail Mun of Russia, made is 7,200 but Nielsen wasn't convinced. He dwelled for a good while before making it 14,500 but that didn't impress Mun, who shoved for about another 29,000. Nielsen had him covered but was clearly daunted by the prospect of shipping more than three quarters of his stack in the opening level.

"You made it so big that I have to call this," Nielsen said. Well, there's "have to" and "don't have to" and Nielsen eventually opted for the latter. He folded and Mun took his stack to about 50,000, while Nielsen is down to the high 20,000s.

It was a bad couple of hands for Danish journalists as Jonas Huttel, another of that breed, was sent to the rail. He ran A-K into jacks to double up a short stack, and then moved his own dwindling pile all in pre-flop, running 10-8 into A-J and getting no help. Huttel is now chatting to his friend Peter Eastgate.

12.30pm: Kristoffersen eliminated; blame it on the (Es)Stones
Gunnar Rabe opened from under the gun to 2,500 and Heiki Laja, on the button, put in a re-raise, making it closer to 8,000. In the big blind, the small stack Mats Kristoffersen under-called all in, which put the decision back on Rabe. We've seen a lot of the Swede deep in EPT tournaments, where he's always a PokerStars qualifier, and always still around on at least day two. This is how come: he folds this hand and claps his hand in self congratulation when he sees Laja's pocket kings and Kristoffersen's pocket jacks. The board runs all the way and the kings hold up, sending Kristoffersen to the rail and give Laja another few thousand to take him past 50,000.

12.20pm: Eliminations:
As usual, there have been a flurry of quick eliminations at the start of the level and, in the blink of an eye, we're down to 117.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels nine and 10 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level ten: 600-1,200 (100 ante)
Level nine: 400-800 (100 ante).

2.10pm: Level over
That's the end of level 10, so while players take a break, have a watch of a video:

2.05pm: Partridge plucks at Thater
Katja Thater raised to 3,200 from early position and Thomas Partridge, in the cut off seat, made it 6,000. Thater called. The flop came [5s][3s][qs] and Thater bet 6,000. Partridge moved all in for 26,000 and that sent Thater into the tank. "You have only one spade?" she asked, but receiving no reply from Partridge, she mucked. Partridge showed [ah][3c] and then quickly disappeared for the break at the end of the level.

2pm: Elite series poker
Johan Nilsson is one of the best bridge players in Sweden, and has been on the board of the biggest bridge club in Europe for 16 years. This week, he's in the Baltics for poker - and he's adapted pretty well indeed. He's our chip leader at the moment, with about 115,000, and that's already close to double what he started with. Late last night, he bagged up 65,000 and today the chips have been flooding in. He knocked out two short stacks in the first level, when his A-Q out-flopped pocket sevens and K-J, and then he was the gracious beneficiary of a mis-judge all in shove by a player with pocket fives. By the point the money went in, his big blind 10-7 had made two pair. The second level is drawing to a close, and the Swede looks likely to have the most at the moment.

1.40pm: Pre-flop aggression
Madis Ormisson, with about 32,000, made it 3,600 to play from the hijack and Christian Schneider, from the button, re-raised to 9,000 from his stack of close to 50,000. Antti Kärkkäinen, who covered them both, asked for a count from Schneider, before announcing that he was all in, an increasingly common four bet. Neither of the others fancied risking their whole stack and quietly got out the way.

1.35pm: Thater picking her spots
Katja Thater, having made a successful squeeze play earlier, has just demonstrated the benefit of taking every situation as it comes. She mucked A-K pre-flop this time after a raise and a flat call when she was on the button felt a little suspicious. She was right: one opponent had pocket kings, another pocket nines and a nine on the flop ended that one.

1.20pm: Lozkin loving it
Yesterday's chip leader Aleksandr Lozkin has started today where he left off last night. He had 65,300 over night, but now he has close to 95,000 and is clearly keen to make a charge on this one.

JC Alvarado, who was also among the chip leaders on his day one, has found it slightly tougher going today. He is down to about 45,000, although will always be adding a few more. Just recently, he looked at a cut-off raise to 2,500 from Shawn Grant and immediately bumped it up to 6,200 from the button. Grant folded.

1.10pm: Thater squeezing
Thomas Partridge opened to 3,000 under-the-gun and Mike Beck Meincke called from the cut off. Katja Thater was in the big blind and had seen enough: she moved all in for about 21,000. Patridge winced and folded; Meincke clearly considered calling, but eventually he folded to, showing pocket eights. That saw no reason to return any information, sliding her cards into the muck and adding another six grand to her stack.

1.05pm: New level
We've effortlessly moved into the second level of the day, the 10th overall. An even 100 players made it this far, with Peter Eastgate leading them.

12.50pm: Eastgate leader
Peter Eastgate has doubled up in what seems to be the biggest pot of the day so far. With [7c][8c] in the hole, Eastgate defended his big blind to an early-position raise from Tero Jokela. The flop came 10-4-6 rainbow, but the real action kicked off when the turn brought a 9. All the money went in and Eastgate's straight had bettered Jokela's pocket jacks, sending Eastgate up to around 100,000. He's the first player into six figures.

12.40pm: Nielsen on the rack
Claus Bek Nielsen and his neighbour got involved in an ugly pre-flop raising battle that proved costly to the Dane. It was folded to Nielsen on the button, who made it 2,200. The small blind, Mikhail Mun of Russia, made is 7,200 but Nielsen wasn't convinced. He dwelled for a good while before making it 14,500 but that didn't impress Mun, who shoved for about another 29,000. Nielsen had him covered but was clearly daunted by the prospect of shipping more than three quarters of his stack in the opening level.

"You made it so big that I have to call this," Nielsen said. Well, there's "have to" and "don't have to" and Nielsen eventually opted for the latter. He folded and Mun took his stack to about 50,000, while Nielsen is down to the high 20,000s.

It was a bad couple of hands for Danish journalists as Jonas Huttel, another of that breed, was sent to the rail. He ran A-K into jacks to double up a short stack, and then moved his own dwindling pile all in pre-flop, running 10-8 into A-J and getting no help. Huttel is now chatting to his friend Peter Eastgate.

12.30pm: Kristoffersen eliminated; blame it on the (Es)Stones
Gunnar Rabe opened from under the gun to 2,500 and Heiki Laja, on the button, put in a re-raise, making it closer to 8,000. In the big blind, the small stack Mats Kristoffersen under-called all in, which put the decision back on Rabe. We've seen a lot of the Swede deep in EPT tournaments, where he's always a PokerStars qualifier, and always still around on at least day two. This is how come: he folds this hand and claps his hand in self congratulation when he sees Laja's pocket kings and Kristoffersen's pocket jacks. The board runs all the way and the kings hold up, sending Kristoffersen to the rail and give Laja another few thousand to take him past 50,000.

12.20pm: Eliminations:
As usual, there have been a flurry of quick eliminations at the start of the level and, in the blink of an eye, we're down to 117.

As poker tournament reporters across the world, we grow fearful of some of the most innocuous words. This morning, for instance, our tournament director Teresa Nousiainen told dealers and players that we were to play "at least eight levels" and those two words "at least" sent shivers down the spines of the small media posse here in Tallinn.

We should have seen it coming. From the starting field of 307 players, 121 made it through their day one. By tomorrow night we are going to have to have lost 120 of them, so we've got a lot of hacking and slaying to do.

We're going to need every moment of that "at least" eight levels, and probably "at least" another eight levels tomorrow. It's going to be engaging stuff as the most populous tournament ever hosted in the Baltics reaches its business end. But it's also going to be a feat of endurance all round.

The money bubble will burst when we hit 32, and you can see the full prize structure on the payout structure page. You should also spend one click on the chip count page, where you'll see the way the field shapes up.

Top of the tree is the day 1a leader, Bo Erichsen, who knocked out Shaun Deeb with the most recent hand he played. Then there's the Estonian duo of Ermo Kosk and Aleksandr Lozkin. Lurking behind them are the Team PokerStars Pros JC Alvarado (58,000), Peter Eastgate (36,700) and Katja Thater (26,600), all of whom have the pedigree to go creeping up that leaderboard.

We'll be going level-by-level on our coverage today: more hands, less chatter. That's surely for the best.

Stay tuned. It's going to be a long one.

As poker tournament reporters across the world, we grow fearful of some of the most innocuous words. This morning, for instance, our tournament director Teresa Nousiainen told dealers and players that we were to play "at least eight levels" and those two words "at least" sent shivers down the spines of the small media posse here in Tallinn.

We should have seen it coming. From the starting field of 307 players, 121 made it through their day one. By tomorrow night we are going to have to have lost 120 of them, so we've got a lot of hacking and slaying to do.

We're going to need every moment of that "at least" eight levels, and probably "at least" another eight levels tomorrow. It's going to be engaging stuff as the most populous tournament ever hosted in the Baltics reaches its business end. But it's also going to be a feat of endurance all round.

The money bubble will burst when we hit 32, and you can see the full prize structure on the payout structure page. You should also spend one click on the chip count page, where you'll see the way the field shapes up.

Top of the tree is the day 1a leader, Bo Erichsen, who knocked out Shaun Deeb with the most recent hand he played. Then there's the Estonian duo of Ermo Kosk and Aleksandr Lozkin. Lurking behind them are the Team PokerStars Pros JC Alvarado (58,000), Peter Eastgate (36,700) and Katja Thater (26,600), all of whom have the pedigree to go creeping up that leaderboard.

We'll be going level-by-level on our coverage today: more hands, less chatter. That's surely for the best.

Stay tuned. It's going to be a long one.