Another player has bitten the dust on the feature table; this time Marcos Sanchez being the unfortunate one.
Making his way to the feature table just over ninety minutes ago with over 150,000 in chips, things obviously didn't fare to well, and he now sits on the rail as we tick into the final sixty players remaining.
The players have really begun tightening up their play now that we're less than one table away from the bubble. Out of the 55 players left, 48 of them will make the money. Short stacks aren't moving in as fast and when they do, it's not without an elaborate Hollywood act followed by excessive celebration if they survive. There's just under 10 minutes until the one-hour dinner break so we doubt we'll break the bubble before then.
On a flop of 
, we found Claudio Baptista calling Vilson Polmann's all in.
Baptista: 
Polmann: 
With Polmann needing a heart, ten or running cards to best Baptista's top pair, the 
on the turn changed little, but it would be the 
on the river to see him double through to 160,000 as Baptista slipped to 68,000 in chips.
The remaining 54 players are heading on their one-hour dinner break.
Make sure to join us back here at 10:45 pm BRT for the resumption of play.
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
The cards are now back in the air!
Only six more eliminations are needing until we are in the money!
Oh . . . and of course the $247,441 first prize!
Here are an assortment of chip counts.
Andre Luiz Scaff - 335,000
Matthias Habernig - 325,000
Marco Caicedo Jaramillo - 265,000
Ademir Strechar - 235,000
Paulo Rink - 205,000
Kwang Ho Han - 145,000
Scott Davies - 145,000
David Bortnik - 140,000
Guilherme Marques Garcia - 135,000
Paulo Santiago - 125,000
Leo Fernandez - 110,000
Guillermo Montero - 110,000
Homero Ribeiro - 110,000
Mario Mascioto - 105,000
Francisco Azocar - 93,000
William Valladares Hurtado - 70,000
Alessandra Correa Dos Santos - 65,000
Richard Gui - 65,000
Claudio Baptista - 63,000
With Brazil being relaxed at both the best and worst of times, so far nearly all of our breaks throughout both days of the LAPT Florianopolis Main Event haven't resumed on time.
This may be both or neither of a staff or player issue, but on resumption of play after dinner, the tardiness on one table was definitely a player issue!
Once the orders of shuffle up and deal were issued, one of the remaining seven tables only had one player seated.
The cards hit the air and the player kept picking up the blinds and antes to increase his stack as we near the bubble.
Unfortunately only after a few hands, his party was spoiled by a few players, before the remainder of the table decided that their break was finally over, and consequently decided to play some poker.
Only in Brazil!
Sander Aalders and Paulo Santiago got all the money in preflop for a massive pot worth 180,000 chips. Aalders was the player at risk in the hand and he held the worst of it in the flip with the . Santiago held the 
.
The flop was kind to Aalders when it came 
. The turn gave him trips with the and the river completed the board with the 
. Aalders made a full house and doubled up to 180,000 while Santiago was left with 62,000.
