Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2010 PokerStars.net LAPT Lima
Main Event
Day: 3
Jose Barbero leads the field going into the final table
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After an arduous 12-hour slog yesterday a total of twenty-four players came back ready to battle their way through to the final table. LAPT Playa Conchal winner Amer Sulaiman had built up a large 800,000 stack yesterday but that's never going to guarantee you a final table finsih. In fact if yesterday was a gruelling mountainous marathon then today was an 800-metre sprint on a track populated with rabid wolves and landmines. With such brutal conditions and many players relatively short the field sprinted off at breakneck speed with - are you ready for this? - eight players being pulled down or blown up in that first hour.
After those first few hectic hundred metres we saw several players attempt to break away from the field. Ben Barrows, Erick Cabrera, Danny Manriques and Chris Conrad all gave solid attempts to build a dominating lead before the bell for the second lap had been rung. It was the latter, Conrad, that came the closest and if it hadn’t been for a single brutal river card the young American would have likely have finshed the day with double whatever his closest rival could muster. What he hadn’t counted on was the burning hot streak of Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero. The Argentine made a huge four-bet shove with 
at the 12,000/24,000 level into Conrad’s 
and duly spiked the 
on the river. Twenty minutes later the Team PokerStars Pro won the flip that knocked Conrad out. That's just how the LAPT rolls.
That left ten but it wasn’t long before Danny Manriques and Nicasio Toranzo fell as well. Manriques with 
to Barrows’ 
and Toranzo, somewhat brutally given the action was four-handed, with 
to Ismael Cadiz’s 
. That left us with eight all of which are now guaranteed an $18,600 payout but one, and only one, player will be bagging $250,000 for crossing the finishing line with all the chips. Jose Barbero leads with 1,817,000 and could be the first player to win two LAPT titles, back-to-back no less.
Join us tomorrow to see which get picked off from the back of the pack and who is left for the hectic Latin spring finish at the end of the day. Play begins at 12 noon.
| Final table seat draw |
| 1. Erick Cabrera 1,426,000 |
| 2. Ismael Cádiz 1,123,000 |
| 3. Ben Barrows 1,154,000 |
| 4. Silvio Martins 594,000 |
| 5. Valerio Valera 236,000 |
| 6. Rene Aguilar 699,000 |
| 7. Jose Barbero 1,817,000 |
| 8. Carlos Augusta 434,000 |
Payouts from 12th to 9th
9. Nicasio Toranzo, $13,040
10. Danny Manriques, $13,040
11. Chris Conrad, $11,160
12. Jose de la Guardia, $11,160
Nicasio Toranzo out in 9th ($13,040)
Ismael Cadiz has been playing incredibly tight so when he got it all-in after a series of raises it's understandable thay Nicasio Toranzo didn't instantly call with . It would have been a huge, huge fold four-handed with a quarter of his stack in the pot and Toranzo grudgingly made the call to be shown by Cadiz in a horrific cooler of a hand.
Toranzo trippled up the next hand but went busto the hand after shoving for 86,000 with 
. Ben Barrows called in the big blind with 
and that Toranzo became the official 8-handed final table bubble boy.
That's it for the day. An end of play wrap will follow shortly.
Danny Manriques eliminated in 10th spot ($13,040)
Danny Manriques hasn't played many hands today and has had the cut of a frustrated card-dead player. The action folded around to him on the button and he moved all-in for around 15 big blinds from the button before Ben Barrows moved all-in from the next seat. The big blind folded to leave it at heads-up showdown:
Manriques:
Barrows:
The board came 
to bust Manriques. Barrows had been bleeding chips the last level so this gets hm right back in the mix with around a million.
A word in the ear for Manriques
The floor manager has just had to have a word in Danny Manriques ear for walking away from the table before it's his turn. Nicasio Toranzo had raised to 83,000 under the gu when Manriques took a stroll from the small blind unfairly affecting the rest of the table's play. Whether it changed Erick Cabrera's mind or not can't be known but Cabrera did raise to 170,000 after Manriques left. A little naughty.
Despite that drama not a huge deal has happened at the outer table recently. Ben Barrows' under the gun 71,000 raise was three-bet to 215,000 by Toranzo - almost exactly half of his stack - which was more than enough to win the pot.
Chris Conrad eliminated in 11th place ($11,160)
It was only a matter of time before Chris Conrad and Jose Barbera tangled again and once again a pre-flop raising war saw the two all-in. This time it was a straight race as Barbero held 
to Conrad's .
Again it was the Argentine who got lucky by hitting a set on the 
flop. It was over by the 
turn before the river came . The two shook hands and Conrad headed off, probably to drown his sorrows. Barbero is over the two million mark now.
Chris Conrad is all-in against Jose Barbero
Details to come...
Things slow down then the blinds speed up
The last little segment of play after Barbero's suckout has seen the tournament slow right down but just when it was needed the blinds have cranked up. The jump from 12,000/24,000/a2,000 to 15,000/30,000/a3,000 should really help to force those shorter stacks into action.
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 3,000