You have to love a guy who wears a t-shirt inspired by the movie The Big Lebowski. Robbie Renehan, a 29-year-old who qualified for the 2012 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Colombian National Poker Championship by winning a qualifier on PokerStars, is the guy who's been parading John Goodman's face around the Allegre Casino all week, telling people to "MARK IT ZERO, DUDE." You have to love a guy who recognized that his position yesterday wasn't the best and that he'd need "a little luck of the Irish", as he...more
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LAPT5 Colombia champion Robbie Renehan
LAPT5 Colombia: The luck of the Irish
Day 4
LAPT5 Colombia: Fregona's inspired run ends
Jayr Fregona was short-stacked on Day 1. He was short-stacked on Day 2. He started Day 3 in 21st chip position of 25 players. And he started Day 4 as 8th of 8. Despite being that perpetual short stack, Fregona kept surviving. Sometimes, in players' efforts to get all the...more
LAPT5 Colombia: Experience falters
I don't know what the final three players ate on the dinner break. Usually players come back from dinner lethargic and not willing to mix it up. Here in Medellin, the first two hands back from dinner produced all in three-bets, with the second of the two actually going to...more
LAPT5 Colombia: Colombians implode as Vanegas loses his cape
Tournament poker is a damn funny thing. In the first couple of levels, Weider Vanegas could do no wrong. He started third in chips and notched the first three eliminations to climb to the chip lead with 3.7 million in chips. Vanegas, wearing a red "The Flash" shirt and with...more
Day 3
LAPT5 Colombia: No more waiting
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. Sometimes this job turns into a bit of a waiting game. You're waiting for someone to bust. And while you might have acquaintances, even friends, who are playing in the tournament, your loyalties go out the window...more
LAPT5 Colombia: Anatomy of an elimination
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. At this stage of the game, with the stacks shallow, getting lucky and getting good cards is as important as playing great poker. Because no matter how great you play, if you get unlucky you can bust...more
LAPT5 Colombia: ¡Vivan los cortitos!
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. Given how quick the eliminations were coming in the first two levels of the day, it was only a matter of time before the tournament reverted to the mean and the short stacks started doubling up. First...more
Day 2
LAPT5 Colombia: Ospina on top again
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. When we started Day 2 of the 2012 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Colombia Main Event, Ruben Ospina was the chip leader with 171,300. And when we ended Day 2, Ospina was still the chip leader. He...more
LAPT5 Colombia: A round with the leader
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. For all the time I've spent watching people play poker - and after four years, I can say it's more time than I ever thought I'd spend watching people play poker - I'd like to believe I've...more
LAPT5 Colombia: Post of the hour
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. COINFLIP OF THE HOUR After the button player opened for 9,500, Brazilian Fellipe Nunes shoved all in for 74,500, drawing a cluck of exasperation from his opponent. That player hemmed and hawed for a few minutes before...more
Day 1b
LAPT5 Colombia: When the big wheel starts to spin
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. The chip bags are out and players are furiously scribbling their names, counting, re-counting, and triple-counting their stacks, shoving it all into a chip ag and heading for the doors. Day 1b of the 2012 PokerStars.net Latin...more
LAPT5 Colombia: Guillen gunning again
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. We've been keeping a close eye on Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen today. Earlier this season, Guillen sparkled on his way to a runner-up finish at LAPT Punta del Este. That finish was worth $126,000, a nice...more
LAPT5 Colombia: The in-between moments
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. When you travel to an event like LAPT5 Colombia, the poker predominates. This is, first and foremost, a poker tournament. Everybody's here to plunk down $2500 for the Main Event (and more, perhaps, in side events) to...more
Day 1a
LAPT5 Colombia: Déjà vu as Torres leads again
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. Before play started this morning, I wrote about the surprises that might be in store for us over the next five days at the 2012 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Colombia Main Event. We know that Sunday...more
LAPT5 Colombia: Faces in the crowd
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. We're getting into the late stages of Day 1a now, with about half the starting field of 115 players still sitting at the tables. This is the time of night when chip leaders usually start emerging, but...more
LAPT5 Colombia: You don't bring me flowers
¿Busca la transmisión en vivo de LAPT5 Colombia en español? Haz click aquí. There's a flower festival taking place in the Premium Plaza shopping mall this week. That's the shopping mall where the Allegre Casino - host venue for LAPT5 Colombia - is located. The flower festival is a welcome...more
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