Dinner break has come and gone for players here on Day 2 of the Estrellas Barcelona Main Event. And plenty of who came to play today's Day 2 have gone as well, because the 984 who started the day have now been whittled all the way down to just 240.

We've got counts to share, revealing some serious surges and new names atop the leaderboard because the average stack is now approaching 350,000.

Checking out the chips

We noticed Jose Carlos Garcia, the young player from Poland who final tabled both the LAPT Bahamas event in January (finishing fourth) and the EPT Grand Final in May (finishing fifth) pushing up as regards to the leaders through the late afternoon.

Then earlier than the break the player referred to as "TryToExploit" enjoyed an enormous push, moving as much as 1.6 million and well away from the chase pack nowadays. We talked with the 22-year-old in Monaco at a time when he was in "Pole position" there as well.

Jose Carlos Garcia

Germany's Kai Kresovic and Ivan Castro Ortega of Spain were both hovering across the 1 million-chip mark as Garcia's nearest challengers, with Eugen Fritzler of Germany sitting just about them with about 950,000.

Eugen Fritzler

Lucas Monnier of France could also be right there with that group with about 930,000, followed by Carl William Watts of France with 840,000.

Carl William Watts

Meanwhile Shahaf Hadaya (805,000), Diogo Cardoso (785,000), Ezequiel Kleinman (780,000), and Edgar Almeida (775,000) are all likewise thriving.

Your top 10 in list form:

Jose Carlos Garcia (Poland) -- 1,600,000Kai Kresovic (Germany) -- 1,000,000Ivan Castro Ortega (Spain) -- 1,000,000Eugen Fritzler (Germany) -- 950,000Lucas Monnier (France) -- 930,000Carl William Watts (France) -- 840,000Shahaf Hadaya (Israel) -- 805,000Diogo Cardoso (Portugal) -- 785,000Ezequiel Kleinman (Argentina) -- 780,000Edgar Almeida (Brazil) -- 775,000

Hovering slightly below them is start-of-day chip leader Pablo Gordillo who has chipped back up around 750,000.

Pablo Gordillo

Team PokerStars Pro Online member Liliya Novikova -- a pacesetter earlier today -- continues to be across the 500,000-chip mark, with Team PokerStars Pros Andre Akkari in regards to the same. Their fellow red-spade-sporter Matthias de Meulder is holding on to boot with 190,000.

They've now gotten past the min-cashes and the not-quite-min-cashes and the small-but-not-min cashes and the good-but-still-small cashes. However the big, really-big, and super-duper-big scores await those making it much deeper. Stay tuned.

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Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.

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