Two-Time LAPT High Roller Amos Ben Leads the Penultimate Day of the PokerStars Festival Chile Main Event

The sun is shining in the 'Garden City' of Vina del Mar, and Day 3 is set to kick off at noon local time for this penultimate day of the PokerStars Festival Chile $500,000 guaranteed Main Event.

First place is paying $97,360 and just 32 players are in contention from the 329 entries between the two starting flights. A min-cash was worth $2,840, with a total of 47 spots being paid out by the end.

Two-time LAPT high roller champion, Amos Ben, leads the way with 796,000 chips after crushing his way through the field in the last few levels of Day 2 yesterday. He admitted to firing several bullets in this, but had a smile on his facing while explaining that he made the most of his last chance now that he has bagged the chip lead. Miguel Zarzar (632,000) sits in second after spending most of the day at the top of the counts, and Hector Valenzuela (471,000) rounds out the top three counts.

The day ended early yesterday, and Day 3 is scheduled to complete at the end of ten levels or until just eight players remain. Day 4 is tomorrow, and will be the final day where a winner will be crowned.

As usual, there will be a 20-minute break every two levels, and a dinner break will be scheduled by the tournament staff once play is underway today.

Here is a look at the Day 3 seating assignments and chip counts:

Table	Seat	Player Name	Chip Count
1	1	Richard Dubini	287,000
1	2	Rodrigo Zambra	282,000
1	3	Tomas Carvallo	381,000
1	4	Daniel Vejar	125,000
1	5	Victor Vega	388,000
1	6	Pedro Sepulveda	87,000
1	7	Aurel Bogdan	251,000
1	8	Juan Parra	188,000

2	1	Sergio Tello	341,000
2	2	Martin Piñeiro	130,000
2	3	Daniel Foti	293,000
2	4	Muhammad Sadiq	110,000
2	5	Camilo Florez	156,000
2	6	Diego Lizana	405,000
2	7	Miguel Zarzar	632,000
2	8	Cristian Velasquez	158,000

3	1	Rodrigo Delgado	245,000
3	2	Hector Valenzuela	471,000
3	3	Andres Finkelberg	125,000
3	4	Jose Luis Capdevila	223,000
3	5	Juan Sebastian Gomez	419,000
3	6	Amos Ben	769,000
3	7	Francisco Salazar	87,000
3	8	Alejandro Sicuro	160,000

4	1	Jorge Ottaviano	121,000
4	2	Hernan Panulti	352,000
4	3	Walter Hahn	251,000
4	4	Joaquin Barcena	155,000
4	5	Nicolas Malandre	269,000
4	6	Wladimir Tarifeno	108,000
4	7	Oscar Toloso	10,500
4	8	Christopher Franco	127,000