Seat 1: Andrés Vega, 33, Puerto Monti, Chile

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The first Chilean at the final table is Andres Vega and he starts the day fifth in chips. At one point in the day, he was fighting for the chip lead with current leader Amos Ben and was second in chips for a lot of the day. He was the one to eliminate three-time high roller champion, Richard Dubini, but has since dropped well below his peak stack.

Andres has been a professional poker player for about seven years. He mainly plays online tournaments, and has made the final table in one of the most popular PokerStars tournaments, the Sunday Million.

In terms of live poker results, the $12,200 he has already secured in this Main Event will be the largest win of his career, In September 2016 he was the champion in a 40,000 Chilean Peso event at Dreams Casino in Puerto Varas in Southern Chile, where he pocketed US $8,040.