Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 300
2010 PokerStars.net LAPT Punta del Este
LAPT Punta del Este Main Event
Day: 2
Mas Fichas Para El Tiburon!
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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.
Gonzalez Gone But Not Going
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.
Humberto Doubles Up
for the mystery player and 
for Humberto.The board ran out
as Brenes doubled up to just over 60,000.
Our Very Own Lucky Charm
Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick is having himself a nice Day 2 so far, essentially doubling up from his starting stack of close to 80,000. We'd like to think his luck has something to do with the pep talk Lynn gave him just before play started this afternoon. Check out what Stevie had to say:
You can see all of Lynn's videos from Punta del Este over on PokerNews TV.
Play On!
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
Hold Everything
And There Go the Rest
The board ran out
with the two live players checking through the turn. On the river, one of them fired out 4,500 with a strangely-bluffy 
, and his opponent made a good call with 
to take the side pot. He took the main pot too; Fernandez's cards had long since been in the muck by that point, and he finally was able to stand and wish his table luck as he departed.
Fernandez Flips Out
against his opponent's 
. The board ran out
and Fernandez had to ship 39,300 to his opponent.