News From the "Lounge"
The secondary tournament area with five tables is filled with five tables and there is barely any table open next to the lounge. A few new faces there include Nicolas Cardyn, 2016 Irish Open Champion Daniel Wilson and Arnaud Peyroles while PokerStars Team Pro Felipe Ramos is very short. The Brazilian just shoved for less than 20 big blinds and scooped the blinds and antes.
Cardyn, sitting between Sebastian Malec and Javier Gomez Zapatero, just three-bet to 2,000 out of the big blind and just Zapatero as initial raiser called. The flop fell 
and both players checked. On the 
turn, Cardyn bet 2,600 and Zapatero folded.
One table over, a very short-stacked Dmitrii Shchepkin doubled his last 7,275. After a raise to 900 and the call by the cutoff, Shchekpin shoved out of the small blind. The initial raiser folded and the cutoff eventually called with the 
. Shchepkin turned over 
and survived a sweat on the board of 
.
The overall chip leader thus far also appears to be in the secondary tournament area, it is Jonathan Clark with almost three times the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
85,000 | |
|
33,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
31,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
17,000
17,000
|
17,000 |