Ospina Leads Again
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At the start of Day 2 of the 2011 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Peru Main Event, Daniel Ospina was the chip leader with 264,200, almost 100,000 more than the 2nd-place player. The end of Day 2 looks strikingly similar. Ospina has bagged the most chips for the second day in a row with 1,140,000. The next closest player, Pablo Gonzales, has 657,000.
It wasn't as simple as all that for Ospina. He started the day trending slightly downwards while players like Derek Lerner, Joao "Jack Bauer" Neto, and Pablo Gonzales overtook him. But Lerner seemed to get steamed by Bauer; Bauer was ultimately undone by reckless aggression; and Gonzales seemed content to sit on his stack. In the second half of the day Ospina exercised a great deal of patience, pounced when he could, and applied a massive amount of pressure to his opponents when he found himself on a table loaded with chips late in the day.
Play started out on a somber note with the announcement that Andre Akkari would not return to play his six-figure stack due to the overnight death of his father. Akkari's stack was blinded off all day and squeaked into the money, finishing in 43rd place. Roberto Brenes was not so fortunate. He wound up as the bubble boy when he made an aggressive play with 
against the hyper-aggressive Bauer and ran into pocket jacks.
For now the huge story is Ospina. He's got a massive lead on the field as we head into Day 3, and plenty of MTT experience to ride that lead all the way to the final table.
We'll have full chip counts and the re-draw later tonight. Until then you can find us at the bar.