Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez Sits in the Top Five on Day 2 of the PokerStars Festival Chile Main Event

Team PokerStars Pro, Leo Fernandez, built up a healthy stack last night and sits in fifth place in the counts coming into Day 2 of the PokerStars Festival Chile $500,000 Guaranteed Main Event at Casino Enjoy Viña del Mar. Play begins at noon local time and will conclude once 24 players are remaining or after 10 levels of play.

Argentina's Jorge Teodoulou leads the way with 247,700 chips. He looks to continue this trend throughout Day 2 in search of his first recorded live tournament victory. Colombia's Juan Sebastian Gomez sits in second place overall with 237,700 chips, and Chile's Miguel Zarzar rounds out the top three with 228,000 after finishing as the chip leader on Day 1a.

This feature event attracted a total of 329 entries, with 109 contenders coming back for Day 2 to battle it out for a shot at the Main Event Title.

Other notables finding bags from their qualifying flights were, Javier Swett (60,500), Amos Ben (82,900), Alex Manzano (145,200), PokerStars online qualifier Robert Heidorn (108,300), Richard Dubini (72,200), Norberto Korn (71,900), Rodrigo Borquez (52,100), Andres Jeckeln (51,600), and Fernando Gordo (35,200).

Play will recommence at level 11, and blinds will begin at 800/1,600 with a 200 ante. There will be a 20-minute break every two hours, and an 80-minute dinner break is scheduled at the end of level 16. The prizepool and payouts will be posted during play on Day 2.

Here is a look at the seating assignments and chip counts for the day:

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Nicolas Alonso Fuentes Vidal	Thailand	18,600
1	2	Imanol Arambaru Cordero	Argentina	63,900
1	3	Diego Zamarbride	Argentina	80,000
1	4	Cristobal Leiva	Argentina	31,300
1	5	Hua He	China	71,700
1	6	Victor Andres Vega Pizarro	Chile	33,400
1	7	Muhammad Sadiq	Chile	20,000
1	8	Ezequiel Waigel	Argentina	50,800

2	1	Caio Fernando De Almeida	Brazil	30,600
2	2	Jorge Ottaviano	Argentina	21,600
2	3	Rodrigo Rishmague	Chile	34,600
2	4	Luigui Scarpeccio	Argentina	32,200
2	5	Hernan Panulti	Argentina	68,300
2	6	Leor Behar Riffo	Chile	23,300
2	7	Carlos Schmidt	Argentina	95,100
2	8	José Pedro Da Silva Paulo Demeyére	Brazil	27,700

3	1	Sanjay Sahijwani	Chile	76,500
3	2	Sergio Dario Tello	Argentina	200,200
3	3	Norberto Andres Korn	Argentina	71,900
3	4	Milton De La Fuente Palma	Chile	62,300
3	5	Ruben Araneo	Argentina	17,000
3	6	Jose Krauss Echeverria	Chile	36,500
3	7	Rodrigo Zambra Bastias	Chile	52,200
3	8	Teunis Kooij	Netherlands	90,000

4	1	Diego Lizana Besa	Chile	44,600
4	2	Daniel De Mula	Argentina	45,500
4	3	Jose Antonio Martinoli	Chile	141,400
4	4	Joaquin Barcena	Argentina	154,200
4	5	Felix Barriga Parra	Chile	52,900
4	6	Daniel Foti	Argentina	120,800
4	7	Arnaldo Mesas	Argentina	66,300
4	8	Sebastian Yanicelli Willink	Argentina	114,400

5	1	Gabriel Alonso Gómez Mellado	Chile	77,500
5	2	Nicolas Malandre Godoy	Chile	108,400
5	3	Pedro Sepulveda Santis	Chile	36,300
5	4	Jonathan Markovits	Ecuador	75,400
5	5	Gabriel Lopez Urra	Chile	30,300
5	6	Matias Robledo	Argentina	56,400
5	8	Felipe Morales Seguin	Chile	30,800

6	1	Christopher Franco	Chile	23,800
6	2	` TBC	Argentina	73,400
6	3	Javier Eduardo Swett Hormazabal	Chile	60,500
6	4	Oscar Toloso	Argentina	89,300
6	5	Robert Heidorn	United Kingdom	108,400
6	6	Raul San Martin Guasanow	Chile	46,600
6	8	Fernando Javier Gordo	Argentina	35,200

7	1	Rodrigo Delgado	Chile	78,500
7	2	Rodrigo Borquez Morales	Chile	52,100
7	3	Jorge Teodouou	Argentina	247,700
7	4	Luis Alejandro Vasquez Rissetti	Chile	96,400
7	5	Cristopher Cancino Sepulveda	Chile	47,000
7	6	Aquiles Espinoza Elias	Chile	72,500
7	7	Cristian Sandoval Cataldo	Chile	78,600
7	8	Leonel Otazo Aguilera	Chile	155,800

8	2	Quirima Gonzalez Marquez	Chile	42,300
8	3	Manuel Mauricio Munoz Alarez	Chile	44,000
8	4	Miguel Zarzar Alcalde	Chile	228,000
8	5	Ariel Akerman	Argentina	17,600
8	6	Eugenio Celume Muaum	Chile	57,600
8	7	Patricio Andres Rojas Parra	Chile	26,600
8	8	Andres Federico Jeckeln	Argentina	51,600

9	1	Ricardo Andres Chauriye Rabah	Chile	33,300
9	2	Henrique Onodera	Brazil	83,500
9	3	Gustavo Omar Moscon	Argentina	76,200
9	5	Francisco Carreira Pacheco	Brazil	35,500
9	6	Richard Dubini	Argentina	72,200
9	7	Horacio Jorge Ale	Argentina	47,400
9	8	Joan Franco Pandolfino	Argentina	49,700

10	1	Hector Valenzuela	Chile	135,700
10	2	Wladimir Tarifeno	Chile	159,200
10	3	Williams Elvis Espinoza Baza	Chile	62,100
10	4	Alex Vega Alarcon	Chile	109,200
10	6	Jonathan Vilares Nunez	Chile	118,800
10	7	Juan Parra Garces	Chile	159,400
10	8	Tomas Carvallo Ossa	Chile	120,200

11	1	Jose Luis Capdevila	Chile	109,500
11	2	Jaime Zamanillo Mayol	Chile	135,000
11	4	Daniel Vejar	Chile	71,600
11	5	Cristian Velasquez Tapia	Chile	57,400
11	6	Mikael Andersson	Finland	68,000
11	7	Luis Maria Scarpeccio	Argentina	73,200
11	8	Sebastian Ruiz	Chile	47,200

12	1	Andres Roberto Finkelberg	Argentina	39,500
12	2	Teofilo Tristan Arbe	Argentina	157,800
12	4	Juan Sebastian Gomez Giraldo	Colombia	237,700
12	5	Francisco Salazar Monnard	Chile	48,800
12	6	Lucas Baruc Gomes Silva	Brazil	48,600
12	7	Alex Javier Manzano Ramirez	Chile	145,200
12	8	Akash Mazumdar	United States	28,600

13	1	Jose Miguel Selame Musalem	Chile	23,800
13	2	Workel Contreras Gerardo	Mexico	44,000
13	3	Aurel Bogdan	Romania	59,500
13	4	Janir Muller	Brazil	125,900
13	5	Walter Federico Hahn	Argentina	56,800
13	7	Felipe Ortiz Panatt	Chile	39,400
13	8	Rodrigo Perez Perez	Chile	138,800

14	1	Alberto Alarcón García	Peru	25,200
14	2	Jorge Ricardo Postigo	Peru	36,700
14	4	Mac Hudson Hilaire Vernet	Chile	133,800
14	6	Jose Tadeo De S Palomares Bogarin	Mexico	79,000
14	7	Jorge Ottaviano	Argentina	55,100
14	8	Cristian Arturo Aceiton Ruiz	Chile	54,400

15	1	Matias Ezequiel Ruiz	Argentina	82,300
15	2	Leonardo Fernandez	Argentina	152,900
15	3	Martin Hugo Piñeiro	Argentina	129,700
15	5	Amos Ben Haim	Chile	82,900
15	6	Mariano Balfagon	Argentina	126,600
15	7	Cristian Andres Scherpf Arrigorriaga	Chile	20,500
15	8	Camilo Ernesto Florez Solis	Colombia	45,100