by Brad Willis and Change100 The final accounting It was a grand experiment today. We live-blogged a $25/$50/$5 cash game as it played out in front of the television cameras. The minimum buy-in? $10,000. The players? High-rollers from all over the place. When it was all said and done eight hours later, Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen was the big winner. For a complete look at how this started, what it meant, and what happened throughout the day, scroll to the bottom of this post and read from the...more
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LAPT Rosario: PokerStars qualifier Martin Sansour wins Grand Final
by Brad Willis and Change100 The road to Argentina is the road to the end of the world. Drive far enough down its coasts and through its mountains, and you might just fall off the planet. Oh, sure, there is a greater chance you'll just get frostbite on the...more
LAPT Rosario: Levels 22-27 updates (25,000-50,000-5,000)
6:50pm: Martin Sansour wins the LAPT Rosario, Bolivar Palacios eliminated in second place On the second hand of heads-up play, Bolivar Palacios open-raised, Martin Sansour moved all-in and Palacios made the call. Palacios: A♦Q♣ Sansour: A♣K♣ Dominated and the LAPT title at risk, Palacios needed some serious help on...more
LAPT Rosario: Final table player profiles
Out of the 254 players who started the LAPT Grand Final in Rosario, Argentina, only eight remain. The final table players come from around South America, the USA, and Sweden. They have many final tables among them, but only one, Matthias Habernig, has an LAPT championship. For a better look...more
LAPT Rosario: La Mesa Final
If any of our final table players ever dreamt of seeing their name in lights over twenty feet high, well, today they'll get their wish. As the TV crew scrambles to prepare the stage and set up the audience viewing area, another slickly edited video package introducing our eight finalists...more
LAPT Rosario: Bianchi leads final table, Habernig goes for back-to-back titles
It's hard to find a Red Bull in South America. I'm sure it's available somewhere, but south of the equator their preferred variety of energy drink comes in a black can emblazoned with a red lightning bolt and the word "SPEED." That's right, folks. Speed in a can. Not everyone...more
LAPT Rosario: Levels 17-22 updates (10,000-20,000-2,000)
5:48pm: Final table set With the final table set, the remaining players are taking a break for the night and will return tomorrow to determine the champion. A full wrap of the day is on the way. 5:23pm: Gustavo Flessak eliminated in 9th place, final table set Gustavo Flessak...more
LAPT Rosario: In search of the final table
The lights. The bright, shining, make-you-squint lights. Those are usually the first indication that the stakes have changed. When TV cameras and big boom microphones appear in your face, the chip bags are stuffed with big denomination fichas, and every bustout gets you so much closer to fame, the lights...more
LAPT Rosario: Tight chip lead going into Day 3
This looked, by all accounts, to be Nico Fierro's. He could've almost folded to the chip lead from the middle of the day, Could he do it? Could Chile's Nico Fierro go wire-to-wire as the chip leader to the final table? He looked good for it. It seemed there was...more
LAPT Rosario: Levels 13-17 updates (3,000-6,000-500)
10:05pm: Robby Westrom eliminated, 24 remain Robby Westrom got his chips in with the best of it, taking his A♣K♠ up against A♦Q♥. A queen on the flop and another on the turn dashed his hopes of advancing to Day 3 and he hit the rail in 25th place....more
LAPT Rosario: Levels 9-12 updates (1,000-2,000-200)
4:28pm: Players take a 15-minute break While our players enjoy a stretch and a little fresh air, we're going to close out this post. We'll be back in a few with the blinds up to 1,200/2,400 with a 200 ante. 4:26pm: Barbero, Phillips ousted We are down to two...more
LAPT Rosario: Day 2 Preview
Buenos dias, Rosario. We've rubbed the sleep out of our eyes thanks to some of South America's finest java and in about thirty minutes' time, the 126 players who survived Day 1 of the LAPT Grand Final will return to the tables, unbag their chips, and pick up where they...more
LAPT Rosario: Fierro en Fuego
I have yet to figure out the city of Rosario. The acres of impossibly green farmland on its outskirts recalls the American midwest. The packed-together high-rise apartments that line Boulevard Orono bring to mind some of the South American seaside enclaves we've visited elsewhere on the LAPT, like Vina del...more
LAPT Rosario: Day 1, levels 5-8 updates (300-600-75)
9:20pm: Wait. The world just blew up With just a couple hands left in the night, Nico Fierro nearly doubled his stack, again at the expense of Hugo Franca. It was A♣A♥ versus A♦K♦. The 6♣[2♥K♣[2♦2♣ board was an ugly one. Franca, who had 215,000 an hour ago, now...more
LAPT Rosario: Levels 1-4 updates (150-300 blinds)
4:25pm: Level ends, players break With the end of level 4, players are headed out for a 15 minute break. We'll be closing out this post of updates and starting one anew in the meantime. 4:15pm: Dominik down Last year's Grand Final champion Dominik Nitsche's seat is now filled...more
LAPT Rosario: Close encounters of the Grand Final kind
We sit inside a giant, dark room inside the biggest and most luxurious gaming spot on the continent of South America. This alone should be reason enough to impress us. This, however, is not all that's knocking us back like the iconic Maxell "Blown Away" ad campaign (that most poker...more
LAPT Grand Final set for Argentina
The Latin American Poker Tour is ready close out its biggest and best season yet with a final stop in the exotic city of Rosario, Argentina. The Grand Final main event runs September 23-36 and is expecting hundreds of players from around the world to one of South America's most...more
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