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11:30 Day 3 a half hour away...

With close to 200 players coming back for yesterday's Day 2 session, the tournament area was buzzing prior to that restart. Today, with just 32 players coming back for Day 3, the energy is still there, it's just more contained. Four tables will return, with a wide variety of storylines having the ability to play out as this LAPT9 Chile Main Event field plays down to a final table of eight.

That means we could have a slightly shorter day than usual, especially if this group keeps the fast pace that saw over two dozen players hit the rail in the final two levels last night. That pace saw Ricardo Matamala shoot to the top of the leaderboard late in Day 2, winning a pivotal hand at the death with a flopped set.

He'll come back as the only player of the 800,000 chip mark but a few big stacks and big names are behind him. Jorge Teodoulou and Alex Vega each finished with over 700,000 and Bruno Politano, the man leading a four-headed Brazilian monster into Day 3, comes back with just shy of 650,000. Those players are top of the leaderboard but the biggest name in this field will come back below the chip average, just like he did for Day 2.

Fabian Ortiz has already won two LAPT titles and his first came at Vina del Mar in 2009. He's hoping that Chilean lightening can strike twice en route to his third LAPT victory but he'll have his work cut out for him from the start, as he'll return with just shy of 265,000. Regardless of which players headline the action once we get to our eight-handed final table, the penultimate day of this LAPT9 Chile Main Event should be an exciting one.

The PokerStars blog will be here to follow all the action starting at 12pm, with a recap of Day 2 here and a list of the returning player's chip counts, along with payout information, on the right hand side of this page. -- WOC

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at LAPT9 Chile: Will O'Connor and Jack Stanton. Photos by Carlos Monti. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog