Welcome to Day 4, the last day of the LAPT Peru Grand Final where the overall Main Event champion of Latin American Poker Tour Season 7 might be determined.
We have a large number of variety some of the contenders at today's final table. Players from 35 different countries originally comprised the 692-entry field for the Grand Final, and all eight seats on the final table could be occupied by players with different nationalities. But while all eight have come to Lima from different locations, all of them have something in common -- the danger to earn a career-best tourney score today, let alone earn an everlasting place in LAPT history.
Before action begins, let's get to grasp our final tablists just a little better.
Seat 1: Jakub Kyrian (Czech Republic) -- 1,710,000
As the one final table player not from Central or South America, 26-year-old Jakub Kyrian carries an outstanding résumé of cashes with him over the Atlantic, many approaching the Czech Poker Tour plus cashes at the UKIPT and at this year's PokerStars Marbella Poker Festival.
With nearly $175,000 in total career tourney earnings, the architecture student's biggest previous score came after winning the €550 German Poker Tour Main Event in May of this year, good for a prize worth just over $46,000.
Seat 2: Jerson Backmann (Mexico) -- 3,005,000
Current chip leader Jerson Backmann of Mexico has a few prior tourney cashes to his credit, including small one in an everyday Deepstacks event on the World Series of Poker summer before last and a $14,500 score for winning the $300 NLHE $30K Guarantee on the 2014 Summer Classic on the Wynn in Las Vegas in July.
A systems manager whose favorite pastime is boxing, that is Backmann's first ever LAPT. He have been playing poker for 12 years and lists Humberto Brenes as having inspired to become a greater player, crediting "the Shark" with having giving him good advice about which books to read and the way to review the game.
Seat 3: Oscar Alache (Chile) -- 2,235,000
"He have been on fire," explained LAPT photographer Carlos Monti yesterday after the Chilean Oscar Alache took over the chip lead late within the afternoon.
Carlos is true. Earlier this year in Chile Alache won the second one chance event at LAPT7 Chile for a virtually $40,000 score, afterwards describing his win for PokerStars.tv. Then in September he earned three more cashes including two final tables on the Latin Poker Series Millions II in Panama City.
Seat 4: Daniel Campodonico (Uruguay) -- 1,005,000
Like Alache, 67-year-old Daniel Campodonico was enjoying a handsome run of tourney successes of late, using expertise learned after a half-century of playing the game.
Campodonico final tabled a $500 NLHE Turbo side event at LAPT6 Uruguay, finishing third, one of the cashes he's had in Uruguay over recent years. In May of this year he won a $500 NLHE event within the Nogoro Poker Series in Punta del Este for $31,277, then in July he won another $1K NLHE event at the Conrad Poker Tour for $35,700, also in Punta.
Seat 5: Jose Torre (Argentina) -- 1,105,000
This marks the 34th Main Event through the seven seasons of the Latin American Poker Tour, and of the former 33 players from Argentina have won eight titles -- well prior to nearest challenger Brazil with four.
Jose Torre involves today's final table hoping so as to add one more win to his country's leading total, having had various prior experience on tours within the region. Like Backmann, the 30-year-old Torre made quite a comeback throughout the almost six one-hour levels played yesterday, having begun the day 44th out of 45.
Seat 6: Luis Perez (Venezuela) -- 1,570,000
Venezuela's Luis Perez arrives on the final table with a handful of cashes during the last year in both Panama and Peru.
Perez has one previous profit an LAPT Main Event of which to boast, a 44th-place showing at LAPT6 Panama for $3,200. He's already guaranteed himself well above that by making it this far. When not on the tables, the 29-year-old businessman enjoys movies and playing basketball.
Seat 7: Carlos Sobenes (Peru) -- 695,000
In Carlos Sobenes the house country has one last hope to earn a 3rd title for Peru after Martin Sansour's win at LAPT3 Argentina and Kemal Ferri's victory here at LAPT4 Peru. The 55-year-old manager of a contractor business also enjoys motorcycles and soccer, and prefer such a lot of was inspired to play poker after watching Chris Moneymaker win the 2003 WSOP Main Event.
Sobenes has the shortest stack to begin today's final table, but in addition brings the experience of previous cashes in events in Central and South America, including a $33,615 score for coming fourth within the $1,625 NLHE Main Event on the 2011 Punta Cana Poker Classic within the Dominican Republic.
Seat 8: Marcos Exterkotter (Brazil) -- 2,150,000
Brazil likewise has hopes of earning a second LAPT title this year (after Caio Hey's win at LAPT7 Brazil) and a fifth overall at the tour within the person of Marcos Exterkotter.
The 24-year-old entrepreneur has a few small cashes in Brazilian Series of Poker events, his biggest previous win being worth about $3,500 for finishing 16th within the BSOP Main Event at Balneario Camboriu in 2012.
Here is how the payouts are scheduled for the overall eight spots:
1st: $197,540 2nd: $120,580 3rd: $86,140 4th: $65,240 5th: $51,920 6th: $39,840 7th: $28,820 8th: $19,660
Cards go within the air at 12 noon (Central time) within the poker site at the second floor of the Atlantic City Casino. We'll be to be had from the primary deal to the overall showdown to peer who among these eight becomes the LAPT Peru Grand Final champion and last Main Event winner of Season 7.
Photography from LAPT7 Peru by Carlos Monti. Take a look at the start-to-finish live streaming coverage (in both Spanish and Portuguese) at PokerStars.tv. Click here for live updates in Spanish, and here for live updates in Portuguese.
Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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