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LAPT Florianopolis – Day 2 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-08-08 11:05
After some uncharacteristically rainy weather on the first day of action, the sun finally broke free from under the blanket of think clouds for the second day of the LAPT’s Florianopolis stop.
Mathias Habernig was the one who topped the 183-player field of survivors who bellied up to the tables on Day 2 of the
PokerStars sponsored event. At the end of the day, he no longer had the lead though. Canada’s Rudy Blondeau sat top the provisional leader board, as all remaining Day 2 survivors were safe in the knowledge that they’d managed to survive the money bubble.
Habernig held on to his chip lead for a while in the beginning. He was joined atop the chip leader board of the
poker tournament by Alessandra Correa Dos Santos. Kwang Ho Han, second in chips, found no shame in taking on Habernig once the two of them were seated at the same table. Angel Guillen had a decent early Day 2 run, but once he got moved from the televised table, he whittled away and he was eventually bounced with nothing to show for his Florianopolis efforts.
After the dinner break, the money bubble was suddenly tantalizingly close. Wallacy Marcal seemed to be the one destined to become the bubble boy, but he won a coin-flip to stay alive and then managed to chip up a little, taking down another pot, and staving off elimination. Alexandre Fracari was the one who paid the price of Marcal’s heroic stands. His pocket Js fell to Francisco Azocar’s As, 10s and he was out on the bubble.
12 more players busted out after the bubble as Blondeau managed to build a large enough stack to clinch the chip lead.
Habernig remained in the top 8 with 298k chips.
