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PokerStars LAPT Rosario – Day 2 report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2010-09-27 09:04
The PokerStars LAPT’s Rosario Main Event had had a whole bunch of different story lines heading into its Day 2. The continent’s best poker players had pretty much all registered for the $5,000 event, there was an ex champ there looking for his repeat win as well as a bunch of
PokerStars pros (many of whom were slaughtered) and a whole bunch of wild swings and bad beats.
130 players bellied up to the tables on Day 2 of the event. Most of them with one clear immediate objective in mind: to make it to the top 40 and the money. Obviously, not all of them could succeed, but by the end of the day, only 24 players were still in contention. Francisco de Belaustegui finished with the largest stack of chips, separated by less than a BB from second place man, Bolivar Palacios. Nicolas Fierro Gottner was the man to catch for most of Day 2. He built up a monster of a stack, then close to the final whistle, he blew his advantage ending up with a short-stack for Day 3. Fierro Gottner was the one responsible for Palacios’ sudden end of the day rally too.
Terrence Chan had a nice Day 2 too. He gave up an online poker tournament in order to be able to play in the LAPT Rosario Main Event and he probably had no subsequent regrets about his decision. He kept adding to his stack all through Day 2, making it all the way to 4th place in the provisional chip counts by the end of the day.
Matthias Habernig played well too. The German who seems to have developed a peculiar taste for the Latin American poker scene, ended up not far behind Chan in the chip counts.
Nacho Barbero busted out shortly before the money bubble.
