Stacks assessed at latest break

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Looking at the stacks around the empty cardroom as we take another quick break, it seems Bernat Saperas could well be our chip leader as he sits on around 280,000.

With Carlos Oliveira taking a small hit to be left with 225,000 and Santiago Soriano Ramos slowly rebuilding to  the 200,000 mark, the latter's table mate has seized the initiative.

Joao Brito meanwhile has been reduced to 50,000 chips after coming out on the wrong end of two big battles.

First the Portuguese suffered a bad beat in a 100,000+ pot, his tens losing out to a rival's set of nines, and later he found himself in another losing race holding K10 vs A3.

UPDATE - we have since found Michele D'Aniello can better even Saperas, boasting 290,000 at the last interval.