Hugo Kahan faced a tough decision against Luis Yepez. Kahan opened for 31,000 in front of Yepez, who squeezed out his hand and then moved all in for 120,000. Kahan slumped his head down to the level of the felt as he pondered his decision, then confidently slammed a stack of calling chips into the middle of the table. He was pumped to see that his was racing Yepez's . Yepez called for an ace several times but whiffed on a board of . The two men then shook hands before Yepez departed in 22nd place.
Try out this hand and see how it grabs you. Daniel Ospina opened pre-flop to 22,000. Juan Carlos Rodriguez had next action and made it 44,000 to go. Ospina called, then checked a paired flop of . Rodriguez made a curiously small bet of 22,000 that Ospina called. Both players checked the turn and river. At showdown, Ospina insisted that Rodriguez open his hand first. As the last aggressor, Rodriguez was required to do so and showed . Ospina grimaced and mucked his hand.
Brad Stebeleski came down from Canada for this LAPT event and will be going home with double his buy-in. He moved a short stack into the middle pre-flop with and found himself dominated by Daniel Ospina's . Statisticians claim that ace-eight wins one out of four times, but this wasn't one of those times. Ospina's ace-queen held to send Stebeleski to the rail in 23rd place.
For some short stacks today, hands will play themselves. After Michel Barham opened to 27,000 pre-flop, small blind Hernan Reyes moved all in for 76,000. Big blind Leonardo Zepeda moved in behind him in the big blind for a total of 200,000, forcing Barham out of the hand. Zepeda tabled but was drawing against Reyes' . The board rolled out all middle cards, to secure Reyes' double-up.
Not even ten minutes of play has produced the first elimination of Day 3. The tiniest stack to start the day (56,000) belonged to Miguel Velasco. He shipped it into the middle with a bare ace and ran into Carlos Rodriguez' pocket queens. The hand was basically over on a queen-high flop, though Velasco did turn an ace. It wasn't enough to prevent his elimination in 24th place.
While the rest of the world continues to grapple with the fallout of the news emanating from New York, the 2011 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Peru Main Event marches on. 24 players return in about 30 minutes for Day 3, each with his or her eye on the top prize of $207,400. Sitting at the top of the heap, for the second day in a row, is Colombian player Daniel Ospina.
We've already written a bit on how Ospina is the "real deal" online, having made more than $100,000 in profit playing MTTs last year alone. He's the "real deal" in the live poker world too, as he ably demonstrated yesterday. He started the day with the chip lead and ended it with the chip lead but it was anything but smooth sailing in between.
Today the plan is to play down to the final table. Ospina, with almost double the chips of his nearest competitor and 16% of the chips in play, will be looking to crush dreams and own souls. We'll see if he's able to do that once cards are in the air, in about thirty minutes time. Stick around!
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was racing Yepez's 
. Yepez called for an ace several times but whiffed on a board of 
. The two men then shook hands before Yepez departed in 22nd place.
turn and 
. Ospina grimaced and mucked his hand.
and found himself dominated by Daniel Ospina's 
. Statisticians claim that ace-eight wins one out of four times, but this wasn't one of those times. Ospina's ace-queen held to send Stebeleski to the rail in 23rd place.
