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LAPT Florianopolis – Matthias Habernig wins
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2010-08-11 01:18
Matthias Habernig survived 4 days of intense poker tournament action to win the
PokerStars LAPT’s Florianopolis event. The Austrian was the one who calmly held up the Ac,10c, the last hand he played, sitting behind a trophy and a stack of all the chips involved in play, at the end of the final day of action. The content look on his face was most probably due to the $247,441 he’d picked up for the feat.
He survived an initial starting field of 364 players.
The 8 participants who took to the green felt on the final day were all guaranteed a minimum payout of $18,476, but of course, none of them was willing to settle for that much.
Rudy Blondeau, the Canadian who had led the action at one point in the poker tournament, was the one to be bounced first from the final table. His pocket rockets fell to Alexandre Richard Martin’s runner-runner straight.
The next victim also rode a pair of Aces to his demise: Rodrigo Scartezani shoved all-in on his rockets, to be called by Dayan Vardanega’s pocket 9s.
Andre Luiz Scaff was the next player to bust out. He was bounced by Habernig. Robson Vinicious Kozan picked up a pair of Js and decided to stake his tournament life on them. For a moment there it did indeed look like he’d made the right move, as Martin’s pocket 5s were thoroughly dominated in the match-up, until another 5 landed on the board, sealing Kozan’s fate.
Habernig then swung into action again, doing away with Miguel Velasco.
The heads-up stage of the
poker tournament saw Habernig hold a huge chip lead over Vardanega. Vardanega did take over at one point during heads-up play but Habernig eventually stormed back to close out the deal.
