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Postponed LAPT Mexico finally consumed
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-03-20 05:29
I‘m sure you remember that about three months ago, the LAPT’s Mexico stop in Nuevo Vallarta was vilely interrupted by the Mexican authorities, the same ones who had given the green light for the tournament’s organizers some time before.
Anyway, when only 89 players were left of the 242 initial registrants, the game was put on hold. The organizers had promised the surviving players that the event would continue, and now they made good on their promise.
The 89 players had played down to the final 9 online, so there were only 9 players bellying up to the live final table. The original plan had been to let the 9 battle it out during the LAPT’s Chile stop, but that had been scrapped. The final table has eventually unfolded before the Uruguay LAPT event and it saw Rory Cox take down the long overdue first prize.
PokerStars put an additional $50,000 into the prize-pool to further motivate the action.
Cox started the final table in the chip lead, holding a massive advantage over the rest of the field. The first hour of the event was eliminations-free. Victor Ramdin became the first casualty of the final table, bounced by Helen Prager of the U.S. Alex Brenes followed him to the rail, a victim of Pavel Naydenov’s A,Q.
The pressure continued to mount for the short-stacks, who soon found themselves forced to make the decisive move. Bolivar Palacios was one of the short-stacks who fell in 7th. He was followed by Martha Herrera and Steven Thompson.
Leonardo Emperador put his tournament life on the line shoving all-in with his K,8o against Rory Cox’s pocket Qs. The board failed to land the K Emperador was hoping for and thus he was eliminated in 4th. Naydenov was bounced by Cox next, after his flush draw failed to fill up against the latter’s two pair.
Despite the overwhelming chip lead that Cox held over Prager at the beginning of the heads-up stage, the latter stormed back, doubling up several times and taking the lead eventually. The final hand of the day saw Cox’s A,10 defeat Prager’s K,7 on a board of A,J,8,5,J.
