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LAPT Chile – Pablo Alexander Tavitian Wins
Posted by: Randy Williams - Tue, 2013-03-19 06:37
The LAPT’s Chile stop doubled as the Chile National Poker Championship Main Event this Wednesday in Vina del Mar. The $1k buy-in event saw a total of 756 players belly up to the tables, of whom 259 decided to take advantage of the re-buy option. The final numbers were: 1,024 entries and a prize-pool of $993k. Having started on Wednesday with the first of two day 1 flights, the event concluded on Sunday, when a winner emerged: Pablo Alexander Tavitian made no deals on his way to the top, taking down the top prize of $184.2k. Tavitian bested Leonardo Martins heads-up. The runner-up pocketed $117.2k for his efforts. None of the other players broke through the $100k barrier.
The
poker tournament started on relatively deep stacks of 15k chips and 60 minute blind levels. The two Day 1 chip leaders were Rodrigo Quezada and Norson Saho. 247 players remained standing for the start of the second day, and the field got quickly whittled down further once the action got going. With the money bubble set for 160th place, it was bound to burst on day 2. The unlucky bubble-boy was Christian de Leon Angeles, whose pocket 10s fell to an opponent’s pocket rockets, sending him home empty-handed on the bubble.
Day 3 saw the field play down to the final table as planned.
PokerStars pro “Nacho” Barbero made the final stretch of the event. He played well all through the event and he eventually ended up in 3rd place, taking home a $78.4k reward.
Everyone at the 8-handed final table was guaranteed a min-cash of almost $20k. The first player who bit the dust was Sebastian Miranda, who ended up with $19,220. Sergio Braga was at the final table too: he finished 6th, for $31.7k.
