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Updates from level 25 and 26 of LAPT Playa Conchal, brought to you by Brad Willis and Change100. Approximate chip counts, updated throughout the day, are available on the chip counts page. The LAPT tournament structure can be found on the LAPT tournament structure page. The full payout structure is...more

Updates from level 25 and 26 of LAPT Playa Conchal, brought to you by Brad Willis and Change100. Approximate chip counts, updated throughout the day, are available on the chip counts page. The LAPT tournament structure can be found on the LAPT tournament structure page. The full payout structure is...more

Updates from level 21 and 22 of LAPT Playa Conchal, brought to you by Brad Willis and Change100. Approximate chip counts, updated throughout the day, are available on the chip counts page. The LAPT tournament structure can be found on the LAPT tournament structure page. The full payout structure is...more

Those people behind the LAPT can be a bit of a tease, can't they? It's just been a couple of weeks since we were able to announce the first stop of the LAPT's third season. We're all headed down to Playa Conchal, Costa Rica in November. After that announcement, however,...more

For this Nitsche, God is not dead. Dominik Nitsche is 18 years old. He is still in high school. Heck, he may have some homework to finish after this. And after playing in his first ever live tournament, he's an LAPT champion. After he knocked out fellow big stack Mark...more

This is a live blog of the LAPT Mar del Plata Grand Final, brought to you by bloggers Brad Willis and Change100. This post will updated on a regular basis. Click refresh for the latest information. The latest selected chip counts can be found on the LAPT Chip Counts page....more

At about 6pm today in Costa Rica, the heavens opened and it rained. And when it rains during the rainy season in a country covered in rain forest, it really, really, really, really rains. Somewhere deep inside the Caliari Country Club, in the capital, San Jose, it had been raining...more

We're in level 24 of the LAPT event in San Jose, Costa Rica. Blinds are 15,000-30,000 (3,000). The tournament is heads up. Updates will appear in this post. Click Refresh on your browser for latest news. Valdemar Kwaysser, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, wins LAPT San Jose, earning $274,103 6.20pm: Max Steinberg,...more

As they prepare for heads-up play, meaning loads of hand-shaking, strategy discussions, and photography, it seems like a good time to post the following. I'd intended to post it at the dinner break, but we might not make it that far. So, here it is.Throughout the first couple of days...more

A couple of weeks ago, two young Dutchmen left their homes in Amsterdam for a holiday in South America. When they return to Europe in a few days from now, one of them will be $228,000 richer, and will be known as the first ever champion of the PokerStars.net Latin...more

Julien Nuijten, from Amsterdam, Holland, wins LAPT Rio, earning $222,940 Vitaly Kovyazin, PokerStars qualifier from New York, is elimiminated in second place, earning $117,750 8.05pm -- This one is all over. Julien Nuijten, the 19-year-old from Amsterdam, takes it down. He finally gets a hand to stand up. Julien bets...more

Hello and welcome back to Rio for the final day of the first ever event on the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT). We started on Friday with 314 players contesting a $785,000 prize pool and now, two days and 305 eliminations later, we're down to our final nine. The...more

All good things must come to an end, and now the first season of the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) is in the record books. After Julien Nuijten in Rio de Janeiro, Valdemar Kwaysser in San Jose, the third and final champion has also been decided. And he is also...more

11.40pm -- Jose Miguel Espinar, Spain, champion of LAPT Punta del Este, earning $241,735 Alex Brenes, Costa Rica, eliminated in second place, earning $127,675 It all goes in next hand and Brenes has A-10 against Espinar's king-five. But a king flops and it stay good, giving the title to the...more

11.10pm -- We have a ten minute break at the end of the level and white chips are coming into play. 11.05pm -- After a period of small-ball jousting, there's a raise and a re-raise pre-flop with Espinar repopping Brenes to the tune of about 250,000. Brenes thinks and thinks,...more