Over the weekend the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), a $2,300 buy-in event has been raging in San Paulo, Brazil. The final table was sorted out just before teatime on Sunday with Daniele Nestola holding the lion’s share of the chip count.
Nestola headed the table of the PokerStars event with 1.8 million tokens to his name, with Carlos Ibarra on just over 1.2 million and third place being filled by Gasperino Nicolas with less than 100,000 behind on 1.190 million chips. Vitor Torres is the short stack with the uphill struggle sitting with only 273,000 in front of him.
Last eight decided
Just missing out on the final table was Joshua Ewing in ninth place; running out of chips he chanced his arm on a pair of fours. Nicolas with pocket kings fared much better and Ewing left the table with R$22,390 and brought the curtain down on Day 3’s proceedings.
Big name makes the final table
The biggest ace face on the table is that of PokerStars’ Daniel Negreanu, who has a useable 702,000 chips to his name and currently holds fifth place in his first appearance at a LAPT event. The final table seating plan looks like this:
Seat 1. Felipe Morbiducci 347,000
Seat 2. Daniel Negreanu 702,000
Seat 3. Jonathan Markovis 991,000
Seat 4. Carlos Ibarra 1,297,000
Seat 5. Daniele Nestola 1,892,000
Seat 6. Juan Gonzalez 548,000
Seat 7. Gasperino Nicolas 1,190,000
Seat 8. Vitor Torres 273,000
Play will get underway Monday afternoon and everyone still has their eyes on the R$324,600 first prize. Good luck to all those players around the table, and you can guarantee the winner will be celebrating with a big Latin American party.
John
- hailing from Watford, UK John became hooked on the game of poker ever since his uncle taught him the rules of 7-card stud during a home game at the young age of 15. He caught the online bug three short years later after turning 18 and began regularly playing Texas Hold'em SNGs.
