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3:56pm: Same seat - what are the chances?
Level 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
We can confirm that Mario Lopez has indeed bought back in and is having another shot at winning his third LAPT title.
Here's the weird thing - we have over 200 players in the room right and dozens of tables, but somehow Lopez has wound up sitting in the exact same seat he busted from just 20 minutes ago. Let's hope it's luckier for him this time around. --JS
3:50pm: Updating the rest of action
Level 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
While the PokerStars blog's main focus this weekend will be on the LAPT9 Chile Main Event, there are over a dozen side events taking place over the next few days. A few of those events will start up later today but the 'Ladies NLH' event started simultaneously with this Day 1B flight at 12pm.
That field is almost down to the final table and Daniela Horno, who bagged and advanced through last night's Main Event flight, was on the rail to take in the action. The Chilean has two LAPT scores from Vina del Mar based Main Events, including a final table run in Season 4. Today though, she's here as a fan, enjoying a day off while checking in on some friends in that 'Ladies NLH' event.
Horno will certainly be a headlining player come tomorrow's 12 PM restart, as she's coming back with 73,000 but until then, good luck to the ladies playing for an LAPT9 Chile title. --WOC
3:40pm: Lopez busts again - will he fire another bullet?
Level 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
Two-time LAPT champ Mario Lopez has just been felted from Day 1B. The executioner was Lewis Osualdo, who is almost certainly one of the chip leaders right now.
The flop was all sevens - the [7s][7h][7c] - followed by the [9h] turn. Here's where we picked up the action.
There was already a considerable amount in the pot by this point, then Osualdo bet and Lopez shoved for around 15,000. Osualdo snap-called.
Lewis Osualdo [ks][kd]
Mario Lopez [qh][qc]
The [4h] wasn't the lady Lopez was looking for, and he made his exit. He can still buy-in again up until the end of Level 6 though. Osualdo now has around 90,000 already. --JS
3:35pm: Leo Fernandez - welcome to the party
Level 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
Team PokerStars Pro and proud Argentinian Leo Fernandez is now in the field here on Day 1B. He just picked up a small pot over at his table, but he's down a little from the start of play with 17,000. --JS
3:25pm: Lost in translation...
Level 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
We won't lie, most of the table talk throughout the last two days has been lost in translation and that's somewhat expected when your throw an American and a Britt in the middle of Chile. Luckily for us, we finally heard some English at Table 13, as a player tried to explain what "The night is young." meant to Fabian Ortiz.
The two-time LAPT champion speaks better English than we do Spanish but the phrase didn't register with the Argentinian, so we attempted to step in to attempt to translate. After a few ridiculous hand gestures, we finally reverted back to 8th grade Spanish class and said, "Noche largo."
Ortiz and the rest of the Spanish speaking table laughed and while we might not have been able to explain the phrase in the best way, this Day 1B session is certainly young. We're working through Level 4 and so far, just over 225 players have joined the action. --WOC
3:15pm: Raising the stakes
Level 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
The blinds have gone up - kind of. We're still playing 100/200, but now with a 25 ante. --JS
3:05pm: Bravo gets back to starting
Level 3 - Blinds 100/200
The first few levels of yesterday's Day 1A flight didn't bring much action but players seem to have flipped the script today. We picked up action on a central table with a player limping and Fernando Araujo putting in a raise to 1,200. One player called but when action got to Pablo Bravo, who was in the big blind, he upped the price to play again.
The short stack moved all-in for just over 8,000 and after the limper folded, Araujo called to attempt to score the knockout. The late position player folded and Araujo needed his pocket jacks to hold to send Bravo, who held [Kh][7h] to the rail.
He wasn't going anywhere though, as the [Kd][Qh][7c][8h][Qs] runout got him back up to a 20,000 chip starting stack and brought a quick eye-roll from Araujo. The Brazilian is still well stacked with 27,000 but he would have liked his pocket pair to hold. It didn't and the early trend of Day 1B action looks to be continuing towards Level 4 and the PokerStars blog will be here all day to follow that action. --WOC
2:50pm: Cantos can't beat all the fours
Level 3 - Blinds 100/200
Jorge Cantos is coming off a deep run in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event but after failing to get much traction during yesterday's Day 1A session, the second LAPT stop of the season isn't going as well. His 1B flight looks to have gotten off to a shaky start as well, as Cantos just ran into quads, as Francisco Barraza just turned all the sixes to take in a decently sized pot.
Action was picked up on a board of [6h][3h][2c][6d][Jh] and after he checked from the blinds, Cantos faced a bet of 7,000. He counted down his stack and eventually called, only to see Barraza table [6c][6s] for turned quads. Cantos couldn't beat four-of-a-kind and when the dust settled, was playing just below a starting stack.
Barraza is now playing more than two starting stacks, working 44,000 midway through Level 3. --WOC
2:38pm: Chacra is outta here
Level 3 - Blinds 100/200
We've just lost Pablo Chacra from Day 1B. The player from Argentina has now busted on both days - but as it's unlimited re-entries, it may not be the last we see of him.
The hand that felted him was against Lewis Osualdo. With the board reading [7s][as][3s][tc], Osualdo bet 2,500 and Chacra shoved for his last 12,500. Osualdo counted out calling chips (in this case two blue 5K chips) and eventually threw them in. Chacra turned over [ah][kh], which was trailing Osualdo's [ac][3d].
The [8s] hit the river and Chacra hit the rail, for the second time in two days. --JS
2:25pm: "Ricampechano" multi-tabling through Level 3
Level 3 - Blinds 100/200
Early Day 1 action is relatively slow and even though we've seen some sizable pots play out through the first two levels, Ricardo Gisanz has elected to multi-table through the first few levels of this 1B flight. He's currently playing on PokerStars, where he grinds under the name "Ricampechano" and a few minutes ago, the Chilean had to juggle winning hands on both platforms.
Gisanz jumped back and forth from his laptop to the table, taking in the Level 3 pot and also in the cash game he was playing online. We'll keep an eye on Gisanz progress through this Day 1B flight and we imagine a few more players could find themselves multi-tabling on PokerStars throughout the rest of this LAPT9 Chile series. --WOC
2:15pm: Lopez looks for third title
Level 3 - Blinds 100/200
We just mentioned that defending LAPT Chile champion Oscar Alache has taken his seat and that means that all three two-time LAPT winners that were mentioned yesterday have returned for Day 1B. Alache headlines that group as the Chilean is not only the defending champion of this event but also the LAPT Season 8 Player of the Year.
Fabian Ortiz won in Chile during Season 2 and then added a second title in Panama in 2014, while his fellow Argentinian Mario Lopez has bee on a tear over the last two years. Ortiz won at Vina del Mar in 2014 and then claimed another LAPT title in Uruguay in September of last year, with those wins bookending a EPT Estrellas Main Event win this past summer.
Can lightning strike twice for each of those two Argentinians in Chile? We'll have to wait and see but Lopez is in a tough spot, seated next to another experienced countryman in Pablo Chacra. They'll certainly be players to watch throughout this event and Lopez, along with the other two-time winners, will look to make LAPT history this weekend. --WOC
2:05pm: A few notables
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
Here's our shortlist of notable-name stacks from the first two levels - we're sure this list will grow throughout the day as we get to know the field better. --JS
| Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| Irina Petrova | Russia | 37000 |
| Renata Teixeira | Brazil | 24000 |
| Jorge Cantos | Argentina | 22000 |
| Francisco Benitez | Uruguay | 20000 |
| Pablo Chacra | Argentina | 17500 |
| Bruno Kawauti | Brazil | 16000 |
| Fabian Ortiz | Argentina | 15000 |
| Mario Lopez | Argentina | 14000 |
| Pablo Tavitian | Argentina | 7000 |
2pm: First break of the day
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
The players have gone on a 15-minute break - we'll have a few of the notable chip counts for you momentarily. --JS
1:50pm: Alache arrives
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
Defending champ and one of only four two-time LAPT winners, Oscar Alache, has entered the building. His Day 1A didn't quite go to plan - he had about 60,000 and was among the chip leaders but lost a huge pot to Fernando Reines which made his opponent the chip leader.
Alache, Fabian Ortiz, and Mario Lopez are all trying to become the first player to win three LAPTs. --JS
1:45pm: Petrova looks to join pair in Day 2
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
During yesterday's Day 1A session, we saw a handful of women attempt to survive the ten levels to get to Day 2. In the end, only two were able to do so and today, Irina Petrova will try to do the same. Over the last year, the Russian has recorded stops across the European Poker Tour, including a final table run in a PokerStars Caribbean Adventure side event earlier this year.
She's a long way from home but so was Andrius Bielskis, who hails from Lithuania and ended Day 1A with a ton of chips. Petrova will now try to regain the European form in South America, to not only advance to Day 2 but also record her first career LAPT score in the process.
It's going well - right now she's our chip leader. --WOC
1:35pm: Tavitian hoping to repeat past glory
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
Argentina's Pablo Tavitian knows a thing or two about poker here in Viña del Mar. He won the biggest ever event here back on Season 6 of the LAPT, winning the Chile stop for $184,220. At the final table, he had to defeat two-time LAPT champ Jose Barbero - no easy feat, I can assure you.
He's in the field today and will be looking to get off to a good start on Day 1B. --JS
1:25pm: LOT. OF. ACTION.
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
Wow, this has been a crazy day of play so far. Usually the first few levels are quite conservative - nobody wants to go home after an hour of play, after all - but LAPT9 Chile Day 1B has been the opposite.
Walking around I can see tons of short-stacks already. The blinds are only 75/150 and the starting stack was 20,000!
In one sick hand, Juan Pablo Lucero secured a double up (albeit only to 17,000) when his pocket sixes pipped his opponent's flopped set to the post. His [6h][6d] was up against his opponent's [jh][td] on a [js][9s][qc][jc][6c] board - meaning a miracle river gave him the win, and crushed the other player down to just 1,400. --JS
1:15pm: Schafer rivers Ortiz to say alive
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
"I got an all-in and double up." I said, to which my colleague Jack Stanton replied, "Already!?"
Yes, all-in, call and double up just a few minutes into Level 2 and two-time LAPT winner Fabian Ortiz was the one shipping that double as his flopped top pair couldn't hold. Action was picked up on a board of [9c][8s][2s] and after a flurry of raises Claudio Schafer's 7,975 chip short stack got in the middle.
He held [Qs][ts] and he'd need to hit to stay alive against Ortiz's [Kh][9s]. The Argentinian held top pair and a spade blocker but after the [3c] fell on the turn, he'd cut out the necessary chips to pay the bet, as the [As] completed the board and Schafer's flush.
Our Spanish to English translator might not be turned on just yet (we'll wait until the PokerStars Brazil guysto hit the floor for that) but Ortiz did not look impressed by the river, a card that dropped him back to a starting stack and pushed Schafer up near 16,000. --WOC
1:05pm: The theme of Day 1B so far
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
Big bets - that's the trend I keep noticing as I walk around the room and familiarize myself with the players. In one hand, I saw a c-bet of 1,025 into a 775 pot. In another, a flop bet of 3,200 into an 1,800 chip pot.
If the action continues like this throughout the day, there's going to be some crazy action. Don't go anywhere. --JS
1pm: Wow - that was fast
Level 2 - Blinds 75/150
We're still getting to know the field and find out exactly who's playing, but we've already gone through Level 1. The blinds are now 75/150. --JS
12:35pm: Riera ignoring LAPT fashion trend
Level 1 - Blinds 50/100
If we've noticed one thing about Chilean or South American poker players, it's that they love their sunglasses. From well known names like Bruno Politano and Damian Salas to stone amateurs, seemingly every table in the room has a a few players behind some stylish shades.
Table 4 is currently eight-handed and the only player that seems to have missed the sunglass memo is Oscar Riera. He's sans sunglasses but that doesn't mean that he's at a disadvantage, as the Argentinian has taken in a few pots throughout the last orbit to move himself near the 25,000 chip mark.
While the rest of his table hides behind their shades, Riera is going to attempt to make his way through this Day 1B flight the old fashioned way. --WOC
12:20pm: Chacra's back; waiting on Alache
Level 1 - Blinds 50/100
Pablo Chacra is back again today, after his Day 1A didn't run as hot as he would have liked. He was short-stacked for most of it, so is probably thrilled to see 20,000 in chips back in front of him once again.
We're expecting to see a lot of the departed Day 1A players here today - notably LAPT Player of the Year Oscar Alache, who just happens to be the defending champ. He assured us that both he - and his mum, Bernardita Orrego - will be back in play on Day 1B.
I asked Oscar last night why his mum is playing in her first LAPT. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree,2 he said. --JS
12:10pm: Better luck for Renata Teixeira
Level 1 - Blinds 50/100
While it wasn't entirely reported yesterday, Renata Teixeira had a rough Day 1A session. The Season 8 LAPT Chile runner up was crippled after a blind versus blind encounter, where her opponent held 8-deuce off-suit to her pocket threes, and from that point treaded water until she was sent to the rail.
Early in this Day 1A session, Teixeira is back in the action, looking to run better than yesterday. She'll have to wait though, as her table is only three-handed and waiting for a fourth to get the cards in the air. We'll certainly follow the Brazilian's action throughout this Day 1B flight and we imagine we'll see the player that bested her last year, Oscar Alache, later today as well. -- WOC
12:05pm: Ortiz is back for more
Level 1 - Blinds 50/100
Two-time LAPT champ Fabian Ortiz is back in the mix today on Day 1B. He'll be looking for a better run than he had yesterday - a day which saw him, Mario Lopez, and Oscar Alache (AKA all of the two-time winners here in Chile) bust before the end of the day.
The Argentine is looking as sharp as ever, so we hope things run smoothly for him today. --JS
12pm: Cards are in the air
Level 1 - Blinds 50/100
Play has kicked off here at Day 1B - the room's not quite full yet but we already see plenty of familiar faces that played yesterday. Stay tuned. --JS
11:40am: Day 1B all set to launch
After an action packed Day 1A session, the PokerStars blog is back for what should be another exciting starting flight. Day 1B of the LAPT9 Chile $1,500 Main Event will likely crush yesterday's number of 258 players, creating a massive starting flight that is sure to be filled with big name players from across Latin America.
Again, just as a reminder to player and fans alike, Vina del Mar is our host this weekend and after a LAPT player party last night and 24 hours in Chile, we may never leave. Luckily, we have work for the next few days to keep us busy and over the next 12 hours, we'll bring you all the updates from this second and final LAPT9 Chile starting flight.
Those updates will start when cards get in the air at 12 PM, so stay tuned for all the LAPT9 Chile action...
PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at LAPT9 Chile: Will O'Connor and Jack Stanton. Photos by Carlos Monti. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog
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