Poker news tagged with 'humberto brenes'

The 10 nominees (selected by the public for the sixth year in a row) for the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame were announced by World Series of Poker on Tuesday. The list of nominees include 5 returning candidates (highlighted in blue) and five new players, including Daniel Negreanu who turned 40 this year and now meet the criteria* to be inducted.

Read more » 2014 Poker Hall of Fame: And The Nominees Are...

307 players signed up for the LAPT Punta del Este Main Event this time. So far, day 1 and 2 have been played. Now, 24 players are fighting for a seat at the final table. Among them we find Team PokerStars Pro's Jose Ignacio Barbero (Argentina) and Humberto Brenes (Costa Rica) in the top of the remaining field. Chip leader as Day 3 of the tournament is about to start is Cesar F. Mostafa with his 529,00 stack. Closets to him in chips is the last female in tournament, Daniela de Lima Zapiello with 485,000.

Next player to go out of the tournament (24th place) will receive $7,300, and the winner will get nothing less than $279,330. In other words, we can expect that even the short stacked players will give the big stacks a fight to remember since its a quite steep payout structure.

PokerStars and Latin America Poker tour will visit Punta del Este in Uruguay between 17th - 20th March. The main event expects to attract more than 300 players who will pay the buy-in of $3500+$200. Notable players that already have registered are Victor Ramdin, Greg Raymer and, Humberto Brenes. Also worth mentioning is that LAPT Nuevo Vallarta tournament that was stopped half way through in December last year will finally get a winner as they have decided to run the final table with the remaining 9 players on the side of the LAPT Punta del Este main event.

Read more » PokerStars: LAPT Punta del Este

Yesterday the final table in the $25k High Roller tournament was played. The final Table included some of the best tournament poker players in the world and millions of people around the world were watching and discussing the hands and the players on different forums on the web. The favorite to win the final table was the 27 year old Frenchmen Bertrand"ElkY" Grospellier who had already won a World Poker Tour (WPT) and a European Poker Tour (EPT). And Elky left no one disappointed who believed in him before and during the tournament as he won it and received $433,500 in first prize.

Read more » PCA: Elky wins the $25k High Roller Event

Tonight's final table in the $25k High Roller tournament includes 8 players fighting for a first price of $433 500. On the final table we find many interesting poker players, such as Humberto Brenes and Daniel Alaei for example. But probably the most interesting player to follow will be Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier who won both a World Poker Tour (WPT) and a European Poker Tour (EPT).

Read more » PokerStars Caribbean Adventure: $25k High Roller tournament final table tonight (live stream)