Main Event
Day 2 Started
2011 Latin American Poker Tour Peru
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 Latin American Poker Tour Peru
Buy-in
$2,300
Entries
350
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
A Second Day of Peruvian Poker Pandemonium
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Welcome back to the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru for Day 2 of the 2011 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Peru Main Event. When the action left off last night after a crazy Day 1 where no player held the chip lead for more than a level, the field was a third the size it had been to start the day. 116 of the 350 registered players still had chips. Their ranks were headed by a Colombian (by way of the USA) named Daniel Ospina, whose 264,200 chips were almost 100,000 more than the second-place player, Lisandro Gallo.
Today the field will consolidate by another 80%. The cards will be in the air at noon local time (in about 20 minutes) and will fly until only 24 players -- three tables of eight players each -- remain in the field. We anticipate that it will be a shorter day than yesterday's 10 levels, perhaps taking seven or eight levels to reach that point.
However long it takes, PokerNews will be on the floor to provide semi-live updates.
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Cards are in the air for Day 2.
One note on the field: Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari came through Day 1 with 105,900 chips, good for 13th place to start Day 2. Akkari posted to Twitter this morning that his father passed away last night. As a result he is returning to Brazil today and will allow his stack to completely blind off.
The Bad Beats Begin
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
As we're getting the lay of the Day 2 land and figuring out who is where, we're already witnessing the first of what will inevitably be a long day of bad beats. Enio Bozzano put his short stack into the middle on Table 2 with pocket jacks and ran into Wiggers Vanilson's pocket kings. No problem; a jack on the flop gave Bozzano a set and the winning hand. "Un-f***ing-believable!" muttered Vanilson.
The field is operating at eight-handed tables today. Play will remain eight-handed all the way through the end of the tournament.
Lerner Family Rising; Ospina Biding His Time
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Yesterday we focused on one family of players that made it through to Day 2 -- Humberto, Alex and Roberto Brenes -- at the expense of another. Brothers Derek and Aaron Lerner are both in the Day 2 field. Derek started the day with 83,600 chips and has already busted one player and moved another off of pocket queens. He's into six-figure territory. His brother Aaron has to be a little more cautious as he only had 46,800 chips to start play.
The overnight chip leader, Daniel Ospina, hasn't made much noise yet. We saw him win the blinds a few times and otherwise play a small pot against Alex Brenes. Brenes opened pre-flop for 3,700, then checked an all-Broadway flop of 
. Ospina checked behind. Brenes tried a bet of 4,000 on the 
turn, then checked after Ospina called to the 
river. Ospina checked behind, then mucked his hand to Brenes' pair of kings, 
.
On the short stack front, Brad Stebeleski survived a flip situation, all in pre-flop with pocket sixes against an opponent's 
. Stebeleski's opponent flopped a king, but Stebeleski found his two-outer six on the turn.
Ospina Cuts Down One Brenes; One Lerner Still Firing; Guillen Re-Building
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Daniel Ospina has claimed his first victim of the day at the expense of Family Brenes. It was a cooler for Alex Brenes when he ran his queens into Ospina's kings. Alex is the first Brenes to bust from the tournament.
At the other end of the room, Derek Lerner is putting lots of pressure on his table with constant raises and re-raises. He seems firmly in control. One table away, Angel Guillen is back up to 75,000 after taking an early hit. He played a big pot against Jimmy Castano. Castano check-called 3,600 on a flop of 
and 7,100 on the 
turn. He checked a third time when the river fell 
.
Guillen sized up Castano's remaining stack of roughly 40,000 and then bet that amount. Castano tanked for three minutes before folding.
On a more somber note, Someone has draped a Brazilian flag over the empty chair that should be occupied by Andre Akkari this afternoon. As mentioned earlier, the well-regarded Akkari has returned to Brazil after the death last night of his father. Akkari is not the only no-show today; so far Miguel Velaso is also yet to turn up.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Movers and Shakers
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Daniel Ospina is crushing dreams and owning souls at Table 4. He's up to 330,000 in chips. Closely trailing him is Joao Neto, who has more than doubled his Day 2 starting count to about 300,000. Our colleagues at PokerStarsBlog caught Neto in an early hand in which he flopped a set of treys against Mauricio Zeman's pocket aces and doubled to 170,000. He's been flying high since then.
On the other end of the spectrum, we had to bid a sad farewell to American Shirely Rosario. She moved in for about 40,000 after Victor Shuchleib opened for 5,000 and was called by one player. Shuchleib called with pocket 7s against Rosario's and hit a seven on the flop to seal the deal.
The room is buzzing right now not with talk of the tournament, but with talk of the stunning announcement out of New York a short time ago of a massive U.S. federal indictment against the three largest poker sites in the world. It's all anyone not involved in a hand can talk about.
Break Time
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
While the entire poker world tries to process the enormity of what happened in the U.S. this morning, the remaining 87 players here in Lima have been sent on their first break of the day.