2010 PokerStars.net LAPT Lima

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.net LAPT Lima

Final Results
Winner
Jose Ignacio Barbero
Winning Hand
a7
Prize
$250,000
Event Info
Entries
384
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Main Event

Day 2 Completed

Marathon day comes to an end

What a day. Yesterday was a nice relaxed stroll through eight levels of play but today was a completely different poker animal. The aim was to reach 24 players through hell or high water. In the end it took nearly 12 levels to whittle down to the required number. There was agony and heartache along the way for many and stamina was tested. Players had to wait to the end of level eight (yesterday’s entire day) before they were allowed to break for dinner. The player who coped best with this to end the day as chip leader was Amer Sulaimanon on 801,000. He's followed by Jose Barbero on 646000 and Chris Conradon 576,000.

We came back today with 197 players and all of them had the same goal to start with; make the money. That would mean getting to 48th place. Those who failed to make it to this point were Carter Gill, Michael Piper, Maria Mayrinck, Pascal Perrault and Diego Silva. It took until the 10th level of the day before the bubble burst and the unfortunate soul was Pham Duyen. He couldn't win a race against Jorge Schwalb and had to exit to raucous cheers from his opponent’s supporters on the nearby rail.

From there on it was a mad rush to 24 players as all the hangers on started to shove. Some got back in it, most busted. David Figueroa nearly created the story of the day after two amazing comebacks. He was down to fumes a few hours ago but recovered and was then down to less than a big blind on the bubble. He managed to double-up, quadruple-up and then double-up once more to make it into the money but he faltered once more and was eliminated. Another nice story today was husband and wife team Mauricio Zeman and Pamela Espinosa who both made it into the money and were eliminated within minutes of each other in 31st and 30th.

Our three tables of 24 players will be back tomorrow at midday where we will play down to a final table of eight. Two former LAPT champions in Amer Sulaiman and Jose Barbero will be aiming to make history but they will have to battle their way past 22 hungry players if that’s to happen. It’s good night from Lima, we hope you can join us again tomorrow for the business end of the tournament.

Tags: Amer SulaimanCarter GillDavid FigueroaDiego SilvaJose BarberoMaria MayrinckMauricio ZemanMichael PiperPamela EspinosaPascal Perrault

End of day 2

That's it for the day as we wave goodbye to Luis Jaikel. He'd been crippled a few hands earlier by Jorge Schwalb and left with less than two big blinds. He ended up having to call-in with {2-Diamonds}{5-Spades} against Ben Barrows small blind {q-Hearts}{10-Spades}. Both players hit the flop with {10-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{3-Spades} but {7-Spades}{a-Spades}as the turn and river blanked for Jaikel who takes home $5,580 for his troubles.

Tags: Jorge SchwalbLuis Jaikel

One more to go

We're down to 25 players as Joaquin Culebras and Elton Garcia were eliminated in 27th and 26th place respectively.

Culebras moved all-in for 123,000 with ace-queen from UTG and the action folded all the way round to Karlo Lopez in the big blind. He looked down and saw two black aces. He called and they held; enough said. No ones seems sure how Garcia went out but he had a micro stack so it wasn't at all surprising.

Tags: Joaquin CulebrasElton Garcia

Sent to the Gallos

Lisandro Gallo just loves king-queen. We've witnessed him call three-bets and four-bets with this hand today and on the whole it worked out well for him. Not any more though as it's just eliminated him.

Erick Cabrera raised to 28,000 with {a-Hearts}{j-Clubs} from early position and then called Gallo's shove with {k-Diamonds}{q-Spades} for 62,000. The board ran {a-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}{j-Spades}{2-Clubs}.

Tags: Lisandro GalloErick Cabrera

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 1,000

Lady luck runs out

Pamela Espinosa’s luck has finally run out. LAPT Costa Rica champion Amer Sulaiman was the player to take care of her and in a very tricky manner to. He limped in from the SB with pocket aces and she checked her option with ten-seven. The flop came ten high and all the chips went in.

Sulaiman won the next pot too to send him to the top of the chip counts with 720,000. He has a great shot at becoming the first double LAPT champion now.

Tags: Pamela EspinosaAmer Sulaiman