Have you seen that movie The Revenant? In it, Leonardo DiCaprio plays frontiersman Hugh Glass; a person on a revenge mission after being attacked by a bear after which left for dead by his backstabbing colleagues. In fact, that is what a revenant is - someone who has come again from the dead.

Well, there have beenn't any bears here on Day 1B of LAPT9 Chile, but there were various revenants - i.e. players who busted Day 1A and were back today with a revived tournament life. Should you hadn't guessed, it is a re-entry event here at Viña del Mar.

The possibility to re-buy was too tempting for many, and in spite of everything we had a complete of 307 entries here on Day 1B, and a complete of 565 across both Day 1 flights. That created a juicy prize pool of $737,325, with a handsome $141,785 up top for the winner.

Francisco 'Tomate' Benitez

The player closest to that prize on the end of Day 1B is Uruguay's Francisco 'Tomate' Benitez, who finished the day as our chip leader with 181,800. That tops Day 1A leader Sergio Palma's 167,500, making Benitez the whole big stack going into Day 2. 102 players made it through from this flight, and in total 79 players may be paid, with a min-cash worth $2,500.

Parts of The Revenant were actually filmed in Argentina, and we had a number of other Argentinians within the field today. Two-time LAPT champion Fabian Ortiz was back again, for one, having busted his Day 1A stack around 6pm. He fared much better today and can take 43,900 into Day 2.

Ortiz survived

We also had two other members of that elusive two-time champ club in Mario Lopez and LAPT Player of the Year Oscar Alache. It was a rocky day for Lopez, who busted his first Day 1B bullet earlier after which bizarrely found himself sitting within the very same seat once he'd re-entered. His stack was up and down all day, and he ended the day with 47,400.

Lopez is coming back

Oscar Alache, at the other hand, couldn't survive. The most efficient player of LAPT's Season 8 should wait just a little longer so as to add to his trophy collection, as he busted his stack midway through Level 9.

Alache could be Player of the Year, but he's out of this one

The only player representing the red spade in Chile was Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez, but he could never really get anything going here today. He nursed short stacks all of the way until the last level of the day before being felted.

Leo Fernandez is gone

After Benitez, the largest stacks within the room belonged to Javier Venegas (158,200), Luis Alberto Aray LePiche (143,600), Roberly Felicio (126,200), Yoel Palmer (121,400), 
Andres Hemola (110,900), Carlos Polna (109,000
), Jose Paez (103,300
), and Amos Ben (101,100
). They'll even be joined by Irina Petrova (22,100) and Francisco Belaustegui (28,000) at the lower end of the counts.

You can find all the end of Day 1B chip counts here.

Meanwhile, one of the vital many eliminated players we had today included Bruno Severino, Renata Teixeira, Jorge Cantos, and Pablo Chacra.

Both the Day 1A and Day 1B survivors will combine at 12pm tomorrow for the start of Day 2. There will be a complete of 192 players seeking to become the following LAPT champ (click here for the entire Day 2 chip counts) and blinds may be 600/1,200 with a 200 ante. You should definitely get back and follow the action.

Until then, you'll be able to compensate for the entire live updates from the past two days:

Day 1A live updatesDay 1B live updates

Photos by Carlos Monti.

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