Main Event
Day 1 Completed
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
Official End-of-Day Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
272,100 | |
|
206,000 | |
|
203,400 | |
|
193,300 | |
|
|
192,600 | |
|
|
183,500 | |
|
171,600 | |
|
|
150,100 | |
|
150,100 | |
|
148,000 | |
|
|
138,000 | |
|
|
135,600 | |
|
|
129,700 | |
|
|
128,700 | |
|
|
122,400 | |
|
121,800 | |
|
115,400 | |
|
113,600 | |
|
112,300 | |
|
|
112,000 | |
|
|
106,900 | |
|
|
105,900 | |
|
|
103,500 | |
|
100,800 | |
|
|
100,100 |
Csome Says Come Get Some After Day 1
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Day 1 is history for the 2011 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Sao Paulo Main Event. A record-shattering field of 536 players came out to kick things off with a bang and created a prizepool worth R$2,391,630. First place is worth a whopping R$615,840 and at the end of the day, 168 players remained.
Topping the pack was Leandro Csome. He bagged up 271,100 in chips and looks to have a very healthy margin between himself and second place. A couple of the other big stacks to end the day were Gerardo Godines with 194,000 and Rodrigo Vieira with 179,000.
Team PokerStars was out in full force today. The team members who failed to make it through the day were Gualter Salles, Jorge Arias, Joao Nunes, Diego Brunelli, Leo Fernandez, Andre Akkari and Fredy Torres. Don't worry though because Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck, Christian de Leon, Angel Guillen, Humberto Brenes and Nacho Barbero are all still in the hunt. Barbero bagged up one of the largest stacks of that bunch and will return tomorrow to continue the quest for LAPT title number three.
A few of the other notables to hit the rail during Day 1 were World Series of Poker bracelet winners Max and Maria Stern, young Brazilian professional Felipe Ramos, ex-footballer Paulo Rink and Christian Kruel.
With just about a third of the field remaining, the players will return tomorrow at 12:00 PM local time here in Sao Paulo, Brazil to keep this train moving. The plan is to play all the way down until just 24 remain. That could very well mean we're going to be in for a long one tomorrow, so pack some lunch, dinner, a midnight snack and a heck of a lot of coffee.
We'll see you right back here at PokerNews for all the live updates!
Three More Hands
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
The clock is paused with 15 minutes remaining in the level. The tournament officials have drawn the 
, signifying that three more hands will be played at each table tonight before chip bags are brought out.
Dearly Departed
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
With 20 minutes to go in the day, Joao Nunes and Jorge Arias are conspicuously absent from the remaining field of 180. They appear to have busted.
Godines Running Great
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
A player with a big stack who's running great is almost an unstoppable force. Right now Gerardo Godines is that unstoppable force. A short-stacked opponent shoved into Godines on a flop of 
. Godines called with a big draw, 
, and was up against one pair, 
. The turn 
gave Godines some chop outs, but the whole pot was shoved in his direction after the river fell 
to pair his queen. Godines now has about 188,000 chips.
Barbero Rebuilding
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Easy go, easy come for the only player to win back-to-back LAPT titles. Jose "Nacho" Barbero was in the big blind and watched as a middle position player opened to 3,000 and was called by the button. The small blind then moved all in for about 12,000. Barbero tanked. He cut 26,700 chips off of his stack of about 52,000 and put them across the betting line. Everyone else folded, leaving Barbero heads-up with the small blind. It was a race, with Barbero's pocket fives the slightest of favorites against the small blind's 
. The flop brought three hearts, but no ace or king, 
. The turn and river were both black cards, 
and , ending the small blind's day.
Barbero is up to 70,000.
Godines Notches Another Elimination
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
We haven't called out Gerardo Godines much today, which is an oversight on our part. Godines is up to 176,000 after taking out a short stack. The chips were all in pre-flop, with the pocket queens of Godines ahead of his opponent's ace-jack. Godines flopped top set, but the flop also gave his opponent an inside straight draw around a king. The turn and river blanked out to send the pot to Godines.
Barbero Calls Check-Raise, Folds Turn
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
On the flop of 
, one player checked to Nacho Barbero and he bet 3,000. His opponent check-raised to 8,100 and Barbero called.
The turn card paired the board with the 
. A bet of 13,300 was fired into Barbero and after a minute in the tank, he gave it up and dropped back to 58,000 in chips.
Filho Do Rei!
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
"Filho do rei! Filho do rei! Filho do rei! Filho do rei!" rang the yells from Andre Luiz Scaff as his 
held up against the 
for an opponent. The board ran out 
and Scaff finished with a queen-high straight to win the pot. He was all in for 49,400 on the flop and now has about 120,000 in chips.
"Filho do rei" tanslates to Son of the King and everyone heard the cry around the building. Last year, Scaff was heard yelling the same phrase throughout the LAPT Florianopolis Main Event. He went on to finish in sixth place there for USD $36,974.