2012 PokerStars.net LAPT Chile

Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.net LAPT Chile

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j7
Prize
$76,560
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Entries
651
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Who Will Be the First Champion of the Latin American Poker Tour Season 5?

Day 4 of the Latin American Poker Tour Chile will kick off in a little under an hour and won’t stop until a winner is determined. For the past five days, the Enjoy Casino & Resort in Vina del Mar has played host to the LAPT’s first Main Event of Season 5, which drew 651 entrants and created a prize pool of $651,840.

Yesterday, the final 32 players whittled themselves down to just eight fairly quickly. The eliminations were fast furious, until the last one when Leonardo Olivares raised to 120,000 in the cutoff, and after the button and small blind folded, Pedro Frankel moved all in from the big for 425,000 total. Olivares called and Frankel turned over {7-Spades}{7-Clubs}, which was off to the races against the {K-Spades}{J-Clubs} of Olivares.

The players and railbirds were on their feet as the flop came out {9-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}{4-Clubs}. Olivares had paired his king to take the lead and left Frankel in need of some major help. The {10-Diamonds} turn certainly wasn't it, and neither was the {8-Diamonds} turn. Frankel was dispatched in ninth place for $10,690 and the LAPT Chile final table was set.

2012 LAPT Chile Final Table

SeatPlayerCountryChips
1Nicholas BattColombia1,470,000
2Javier VenegasArgentina855,000
3Halysson SalaBrazil660,000
4Sergio EscobarColombia1,845,000
5Joao LopesBrazil755,000
6Leonardo OlivaresChile1,100,000
7Felipe VelasquezChile1,840,000
8Aliro DiazChile1,235,000

The big question is, with three Chileans, two players from Colombia, two Brazilians and one Argentinian remaining, can a local capture the LAPT Chile National Poker Championship title?