2012 PokerStars.net LAPT Grand Final

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.net LAPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
75
Prize
$289,300
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,700
Prize Pool
$1,343,100
Entries
367
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Beris Finds a Card

Under the gun, Iaonnis Beris came in raising, and the table folded around to the small blind. There, Engelberth Varela made a three-bet to 55,000, and Beris shoved all in for 162,000 total. Varela made the call, and the race was on.

Showdown
Beris: {A-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}
Varela: {10-Diamonds} {10-Spades}

Beris stood up to sweat his fate, and he has a little crowd of supporters in the room who pressed up against the stage and began to yell their support. The brief frenzy was quickly quieted as the {10-Clubs} {J-Hearts} {3-Hearts} flop drew a forlorn look from the at-risk player. "Ten on the flop," he said in his language, informing his rail of the bad news.

Beris was already tucking his chair under the table when the blank {2-Spades} turned, but he found a card on the river. The {Q-Hearts} peeled off the deck, and Beris and his fans broke back into frenzied celebration. The Venezuelan has found his Broadway double to climb back to average in chips, while Varela's stack drops back to about half of his former self.

Player Chips Progress
Ioannis Beris
Ioannis Beris
338,000
147,000
147,000
Engelberth Varela
Engelberth Varela
145,000
-176,000
-176,000

Tags: Engelberth VarelaIaonnis Beris

Quiroga Three-Bets, Nestola Four-Bets

From early position, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu raised to 14,000. Robinson Quiroga three-bet from the hijack seat and made it 39,000 to go. In the next seat, Daniel Nestola four-bet to 100,000. Everyone folded and Nestola won the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Daniele Nestola de
Daniele Nestola
640,000
85,000
85,000
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
395,000
-3,000
-3,000
Robinson Quiroga
Robinson Quiroga
150,000
15,000
15,000

Tags: Robinson QuirogaDaniel NegreanuDaniel Nestola

Two Pair vs. Two Pair

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

On the turn, the board read {10-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{4-Clubs} in a hand between Mayu Roca and Carlos Ibarra. Roca fired 75,000 and Ibarra tank-called, taking a couple minutes of thought. The river completed the board with the {9-Clubs} and Roca bet 35,000. Ibarra called.

Roca tabled the {10-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} for two pair, but Ibarra had rivered a better two pair with the {10-Spades}{9-Spades} and won the pot.

Tags: Mayu RocaCarlos Ibarra

Limp-Shove and Get There

Gasperino Nicolas limped into the pot under the gun with a short stack, and the action came around to Josh Ewing in the small blind. He made a raise to 24,000, and that folded Caio Pimenta out of his big blind. Nicolas quickly announced a reraise all in for 102,000 total, and Ewing quickly called with the best hand, the covering stack, and a chance at the knockout.

Showdown
Nicolas: {A-Clubs} {3-Clubs}
Ewing: {Q-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds}

The {Q-Clubs} {J-Hearts} {6-Clubs} flop was a good sweat for both players, and Nicolas began imploring the dealer to find a club in the deck.

Turn: {K-Clubs}

Nicolas yelled out barbarically and slammed his fist down on the felt, rattling everyone's chips on the table. He still needed to fade a board pair on the river, and the {10-Hearts} was clean and safe.

That's a very loud double for Mr. Nicolas, and it moves him back up across the 200,000-chip mark.

Player Chips Progress
Joshua Ewing
Joshua Ewing
320,000
-140,000
-140,000
Gasperino Nicolas
Gasperino Nicolas
215,000
78,000
78,000

Tags: Josh EwingGasperino Nicolas

Engelberth Varela Eliminated in 22nd Place (R$9,220)

Engelberth Varela - 22nd place
Engelberth Varela - 22nd place

Engelberth Varela has just been eliminated at the hands of Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. Varela was all in preflop with {Q-}{J-} against Negreanu's {A-}{K-}.

Negreanu had raised from the cutoff seat and Varela shoved approximately 140,000 from the big blind. Negreanu called, held and sent Varela to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
600,000
205,000
205,000
Engelberth Varela
Engelberth Varela
Busted

Tags: Daniel NegreanuEngelberth Varela

Battle of the Blinds

Josh Ewing and Caio Pimenta are two of the more accomplished players left in this field, and we just picked up action between them in a battle of the blinds.

It was Ewing in the small, and he started the action with a limp for the minimum 8,000. Pimenta decided a raise was in order, and he made it 22,000 to go. But Ewing came right back with a reraise to 66,000, but there was one more raise still to come. Pimenta announced it, then firmly slid out 129,000 total, drawing a long pause from Ewing.

The young American had about 305,000 chips left in front of him as he pondered, and he eventually decided a fold was the proper play. He flashed the {A-Spades} and mucked, and Pimenta quietly dragged the pot to move back close to where he began the day.

Player Chips Progress
Caio Pimenta br
Caio Pimenta
575,000
75,000
75,000
Joshua Ewing
Joshua Ewing
305,000
-15,000
-15,000

Tags: Caio PimentaJosh Ewing

Leite Nursing His Short Stack

A two-hand sequence with the short stack, Fabio Leite here.

In the first hand, Leite was under the gun, and he used a blue T5,000 chip to pay his ante. He received 4,000 in change, and those chips remained out in front of his stack as the cards were dealt out, and the two players to Leite misread the chips as a big blind. They both folded out of turn, and Leite now shoved all in for 69,000. The floor was called, and the ruling was in favor of Leite to allow his shove to stand. The table folded, and he picked up the blinds and antes.

On the next hand, Leite was in the big blind, and he called a raise to 21,000 from Carlos Ibarra. That was as far as he would go, though, quickly check-folding the {9-Hearts} {A-Hearts} {4-Clubs} flop to slip back to 66,000.

Player Chips Progress
Fabio Leite
Fabio Leite
66,000
-35,000
-35,000

Tags: Fabio LeiteCarlos Ibarra

Amauri Grutka Eliminated in 21st Place (R$9,220)

From the hijack seat, Amauri Grutka raised to 16,000. Felipe Morbiducci called from the small blind and the flop came down {Q-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{3-Hearts}. After Morbiducci checked, Grutka bet 21,000. Immediately, Morbiducci announced a raise. He took a few moments and then slid out the amount — 61,000. Grutka came back with a shove for about 175,000 total and Morbiducci snapped.

Grutka: {A-Spades}{9-Clubs}
Morbiducci: {A-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}

Grutka was well behind the top pair, top kicker for Morbiducci and needed a lot of help to stay alive. The {5-Hearts} on the turn left him drawing dead before the {3-Spades} completed the board on the river. Morbiducci won the pot and Grutka was eliminated.

While Grutka was making his exit, Daniel Negreanu leaned forward over the table to get a closer, more clearer look at the board and the two hands. "I'm trying to figure out if I really just saw what I saw or if I just way too hungover," he commented with a smile after Grutka left the stage.

"Welcome to Brazil, Daniel," said one of the other players from across the table.

Player Chips Progress
Felipe Morbiducci
Felipe Morbiducci
600,000
198,000
198,000
Amauri Grutka br
Amauri Grutka
Busted

Tags: Amauri GrutkaDaniel NegreanuFelipe Morbiducci

Robinson Quiroga Eliminated in 20th Place (R$9,220)

Robinson Quiroga - 20th place
Robinson Quiroga - 20th place

Robinson Quiroga was very short on chips when he took his stand with {K-} {5-}. Felipe Morbiducci's {A-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} was sufficient to make the call, and Quiroga was five cards from the exit.

The board came out {2-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {6-Hearts} {8-Spades} {3-Hearts}, and Quiroga could not get over the hump. He's been sent off in 20th place, stopping by the cashier to pick up a check for R$9,220 on his way out the door.

Player Chips Progress
Robinson Quiroga
Robinson Quiroga
Busted

Tags: Felipe MorbiducciRobinson Quiroga