Poker news tagged with 'lapt punta del este'

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.

Karl Hevroy had almost double the chips than any of the other players when the final table begun last Saturday. Karl Hevroy continued playing amazing poker on the final table and kept the lead until he was the last man standing. For the win he received USD$283,500 and wrote history as he became the first poker player to win a LAPT event with a prize pool greater than USD$1 million.

Read more » PokerStars - LAPT Punta del Este: Karl Hevroy takes home the tournament and writes history

Now there are only 9 players left in the main event of LAPT Punta del Este. In the lead we find the Norwegian Karl Hevroy with an amazing stack of 1,079,000 chips. Almost double the chips of the other eight players.

Read more » PokerStars - LAPT Punta del Este: Final table

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.

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