Humberto Doubles Up
for the mystery player and 
for Humberto.The board ran out
as Brenes doubled up to just over 60,000.
2010 PokerStars.net LAPT Punta del Este
LAPT Punta del Este Main Event
Day: 2
for the mystery player and for Humberto.The board ran out
as Brenes doubled up to just over 60,000.
Gonzalez Gone But Not Going
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Stephen Chidwick came in raising to 5,500, and Jose Gonzalez three-bet to 15,000, leaving himself about 25,000 behind. When it came back to Chidwick, he stacked together a covering tower of orange and blue chips and slid them forward. Gonzalez threw the rest of the chips into the middle, and the cards were on their backs:
Chidwick:
Gonzalez:
The board ran out sour for Gonzalez, coming
. Pretty standard so far. Except Gonzalez didn't want to leave. He began a relatively tame argument with the dealer and with Chidwick, saying that Chidwick hadn't set him all in. Despite the fact that all of the chips were pulled into the center of the table and the cards showed Gonzalez had gone broke, he vehemently denied that he was out of chips on basically no grounds whatsoever. It was hard for us to gather any more details from the machine-gun Spanish he was spurting, but he was clearly looking for an excuse to get a few chips back.Finally, someone called the floor over, and the matter was settled quickly. The floor man explained to Gonzalez that the chips and the cards told the story, and Gonzalez was covered and therefore eliminated. Despite the ruling, Jose sat in his chair for several more minutes before finally heading off to the rail.
Strange.
Chidwick's back up to 165,000 after that knockout.
Mas Fichas Para El Tiburon!
We caught up a bit late, but Humberto Brenes and Jhon Rua had gotten tangled up in a preflop raising war that put more than 40,000 chips in the pot. The flop came out
, and the Rua began stacking out a bet. He counted out 45,000 before eventually knocking the table with a frustrated fist.Brenes made a bet of 18,000, committing nearly half of his remaining stack to the pot. Rua hemmed and hawed and tapped the felt in acknowledgement as he sent his cards back into the muck. Much to Humberto's delight.
He passed his two cards to two of his table mates and told them to turn them over. The first player revealed Brenes'
, and the second flipped over his 
."Humberto never bluff! He is a lucky man!!" Somehow, Humberto can pull of the speaking-about-yourself-in-third-person thing.
That self-proclaimed lucky man has clawed his way up to 90,000 chips after a slow and quiet first 12 levels.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 300
Barbero Bluffs His Way to Over 250,000
, Jose Ignacio Barbero bet 20,000 into a pot of about 30,000.
His opponent in the hand called, bringing out the
on the river. Barbero took a few moments before betting 33,000, forcing a fold from his opposition. Barbero turned up with a smile and is up to 265,000.
Stephen Chidwick Eliminates Philippe D'Auteuil
against Stephen Chidwick's .The board fell
, upping Chidwick's stack to 220,000.
Proof That Humberto DOES Bluff
On a board of
, Humberto Brenes and Clas Thorsell had built a pot of about 15,000 chips in the middle of the table. Brenes was first to speak, and he led out with 12,700 chips.Thorsell went deep into the tank for a minute or two as Brenes hummed away to the music on his iPod. Eventually, he began singing along quietly, and another minute or two of this serenade passed. Finally, Thorsell made the call. Brenes knocked the table, unwilling to show. He had a complete bluff, and Thorsell must have been proud to show up
, his king good enough to win that sizable pot.
Boys Chasing Girls
Daniela de Lima Zapiello is now at the head of this class, sitting pretty with a stack of 280,000. She's one of two remaining ladies in the field, and she's miles ahead of her fellow-female Veronica Dabul. Her towering stacks put her clearly in front of the other 56 men in the room, and Zapiello's rise to the top is no fluke. She's picked her spots well for two days straight, losing small pots and winning big ones.
It looks like she's involved in another big pot right now...
Zapiello Zaps Another
The flop came down
and she checked to her opponent. He wasted little time moving all in for 30,000 with 
and she didn't waste much time in making the call with .The
hit the turn and for good measure she made a straight on the river with the 
, vaulting her to 345,000.
It's Always that Dang River
Showdown
Capdevila:
Roca:
The flop was pretty useless for the pocket jacks as it came
. The 
on the turn wasn't any help either, but the river card was certainly a bit more useful. The ripped off the deck, giving Roca the surprise trips and securing his eleventh-hour double up. He's all the way up to about 115,000 courtesy of that timely two outer.