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Sihao Zhang Leads Final 51 in Irish Open Online Main Event

From a starting field of 2,945 just 51 players remain in the Irish Open Online Main Event on partypoker after Day 2.

Each of them is guaranteed €6,567, but they will all be looking at the mammoth first prize of €462,100 that awaits the winner.

Leading the way is Luxembourg's Sihao Zhang who is within touching distance of five million chips, and is more than a million chips ahead of Ireland's Tomas Glynn and Canada's William Blais.

Irish Open Online Main Event Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts

Sihao ZhangLuxembourg4,974,266
Tomas GlynnIreland3,678,862
William BlaisCanada3,651,502
Joao BarbosaNetherlands3,500,702
Christian SampaoliArgentina3,198,644
Lander LijoUnited Kingdom3,186,214
Charles MartinUnited Kingdom3,058,950
Jakob MiegelGermany3,009,223
Andras NemethHungary2,986,539
Tom MiddletonUnited Kingdom2,655,259

There are several notables still in the field, with Andras Nemeth, Tom Middleton, Parker Talbot, Igor Yaroshevskyy, WSOP final tablist Nick Marchington, Vojtech Ruzicka, Sam Vousden and Michael Sklenicka all advancing to Day 2.