$5,200 Mar del Plata Main Event Day 1b | 2009 PokerStars.net LAPT Mar del Plata

04-17-2009 17:06 UTC-4

Ibuki Fukui and Umbrella Man Updates

[user24788]

Ibuki Fukui stormed back and his stack is now at 10,300.

Sadly, there's a little rain on Umbrella Man's parade. Zach Hall lost about half of his chips and barely has 10,000.

Tags: Ibuki Fukui Umbrella Man

04-17-2009 17:10 UTC-4

Players Take a 90-Minute Dinner Break

[user24788]

Time for an Argentinian steak! See you in 90 minutes. Approximately 92 players are remaining.

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 50

04-17-2009 18:52 UTC-4

Players Return From Dinner Break - 88 Players Remaining

[user24788]

We will be playing approximately 5 more levels. Action will be halted with 3 minutes or so left in Level 11.

04-17-2009 18:53 UTC-4

Top 5 Chip Counts

[user24788]

Horacio Courdin - 42,000
Vincenzo Gianelli - 33,000
Gualter Salles - 30,000
Alex Brenes - 29,000
Alexandre Gomes - 29,000

04-17-2009 19:04 UTC-4

Prize Pool Information Released

[user24788]

The LAPT finally released the official numbers. $381,030 will be awarded to the first place winner. There were 291 total runners and the top 27 will receive a share of the prize money.

Entrants: 291
Total Prize Pool: $1,411,350

Payouts:
1st - $381,030
2nd - $211,700
3rd - $141,140
4th - $105,860
5th - $77,620
6th - $63,520
7th - $49,400
8th - $35,280
9th - $28,220
10th - 12th - $24,700
13th - 15th - $21,160
16th - 18th - $17,640
19th - 27th - $14,120

04-17-2009 19:11 UTC-4

Ibuki Fukui Doubles Up

[user37786]

We were alerted to this hand as Ibuki Fukui thumped the table as the river card was dealt. His {J-Hearts}

had held up against his opponent's {K-Hearts}

with the board showing {5-Clubs}

. The other player couldn't connect with his flush draw or overcards and so Fukui has doubled up to around 25,000.

"You need your hands to hold," he said, as he stacked his freshly-won chips.

Tags: Ibuki Fukui

04-17-2009 19:23 UTC-4

No Action for Gomes

[user24788]

With the blinds at 300/600 and a 75 ante, one player opened with a 2,100 raise. A second player called. Alex Gomes moved all in on the button for over 25,000. Leo Fernandez was in the big blind with a short stack around 7,000. He tanked for several minutes while a swarm of media buzzed around the table. Chris Moneymaker and Dennis Phillips wandered over to check out what all the fuss was about. Fernandez agonized for a few moments. It appeared as though he wanted to move all in for the rest of his chips. He eventually folded and action returned to the original raiser, who quickly folded along with the other player. Gomes won the pot but didn't show his hand, much to the dismay of his tablemates.

Tags: Alex Gomes

04-17-2009 19:30 UTC-4

Leo Fernandez Triples Up

[user37786]

Left almost for dead when he lost about 90% of his chips in a hand early on, Leo Fernandez just tripled up to lift his stack to around 15,000. An early position player moved in for around 6,000, the player two seats to his left called, and from the big blind Fernandez committed the last of his chips.

He held {J-Hearts}

to the original raiser's {A-Hearts}

and the caller's {A-Clubs}

. Fernandez managed to dodge the big cards that would doom him as the board ran out {7-Diamonds}

to triple him back into contention.

Tags: Leo Fernandez

04-17-2009 19:43 UTC-4

74 Players Remaining

[user24788]

The pace has picked up since the dinner break. There are 74 players remaining. Among the notable still in the field... Humberto Brenes, Joe Hachem, Andre Akkari, Alex Gomes, Leo Fernandez, Maria Stern, and Umbrella Man.