Day 1 Photos
Here are a few more photos from Day 1.
2011 LAPT Brazil
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 LAPT Brazil
Buy-in
R$4,600
Entries
536
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Swimming with the Shark
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Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Humberto Brenes seems to be getting the best of Table 21 so far today. He's being his usual chatty self while amassing chips and dodging traps. Sitting with the button for his most recent hand, Brenes raised one limper to 475. That player, the cutoff, called and then check-called another 600 on a flop of 
. Both players checked the 
turn and the 
river. The cutoff clearly had been looking for a river check-raise; he showed down 
, the nuts. Brenes smiled and waved an admonishing finger at that player before mucking his cards.
Maridu Gives Us the Scoop on Kruel
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck is always so helpful out on the floor with filling us in on information that we may have missed. She's especially good at this when helping out us American bloggers on the Brazilian tournament floor.
She just called us over to be sure to tell us about Christian Kruel's day so far. She mentioned that he was on the wrong end of some hands early, including his 
being flushed out by 
after he flopped two pair. He got all the way down to about 7,000 in chips before the last break, but has come back in a hurry to about 29,000.
First, Maridu told us that Kruel stacked a player holding on the flop of 
. Kruel held the nuts with the two case sixes in his hand for quads. "He flopped quads, not turn or river, he flopped them!" Maridu made sure to emphasize. "Then, he had set over set where he stacked someone else," she added.
According to Maridu, Kruel was the first really big Brazilian player who taught a lot of the newer pros their game and gave them the skills to become big-time players.
Easy Game
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
For those wondering how Jose "Nacho" Barbero manages to be successful so consistently, take notes on the following hand. Two players limped into the pot pre-flop. Barbero, with the button, also called. Both blinds were in the pot as well for a five-way flop of 
. Action checked to Barbero, who casually dropped 600 over the betting line. Only the small blind called.
The turn was the 
. The small blind checked, then quickly called another 1,300 from Barbero. When the river fell to put a straight on board the small blind checked a third time. Barbero over-bet the pot by stacking up six yellow (1,000) chips and pushing them across the line. Barbero's opponent leaned back in his seat, put both hands on top of his head, then said, "Call." His 
, a spade flush, went down to Barbero's 
, the nut spade flush.
Updated Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
48,000
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
|
|
43,000 | |
|
|
42,000
2,500
|
2,500 |
|
37,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
31,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
||
|
27,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
||
|
|
26,500
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
|
24,700
4,700
|
4,700 |
|
|
23,600
3,600
|
3,600 |
|
|
||
|
22,000 | |
|
|
||
|
22,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
21,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
21,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
19,900
-7,100
|
-7,100 |
|
16,600
-2,900
|
-2,900 |
|
|
||
|
|
7,400
-12,600
|
-12,600 |
|
|
||
|
|
4,400
-15,600
|
-15,600 |
Gomes Nods and Mucks
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
We came to Alex Gomes' table and caught the end of a big pot. With 15,000 already in the middle, Gomes was facing a bet (or raise back) of 5,000. All five board cards were already in the middle of the table, 
. Gomes absent-mindedly tossed a blue (5,000) chip across the betting line, then nodded as if to say "That's what I thought" after his opponent opened for three queens. Losing that hand dropped Gomes to 33,000.
Day 1 Photos
Here are a few photos from Day 1.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Break Time
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Two levels have been completed. The players are now on a 15-minute break.