It's Carnival time in Sao Paulo! The Carnival Poker Festival is playing host to the Latin American Poker Tour Season Four Grand Final where 367 players made their way to the Sheraton WTC Sao Paulo on Friday to duke it out.
After two days of action, we're in the money and down to the final 24 players.
Caio Pimenta leads the way. Pimenta (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) - who won a LAPT Mar del Plata prelim event back in 2009 - is the only player over 600K in chips heading into Sunday's play where we will play down to a final table.
KID POKER A CONTENDER
Fresh off his now famous "poker rant" on the current state of affairs over at Full Tilt Poker, Kid Poker himself, Daniel Negreanu held the chip lead for a bit on Saturday. Seems like Negreanu's promise to get focused and return amongst poker's elite on the live tournament circuit.
Negreanu (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) holds the 10th position heading into Day 3 play.
2011 WPT Bratislava runner-up Mayu Roca also appears on the Top 10 leaderboard. Roca (2011 PTPR Rank: 377th) takes a little more than 400K to the final table.
NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS
Caio Pimenta 607,000
Vincenzo Giannelli 538,000
Carlos Ibarra 479,000
Joshua Ewing 460,000
Vitor Torres 447,000
Mayu Roca 412,000
Daniel Negreanu 398,000
Juan Gonzalez 378,000
Samir Nadim Nasser 133,000
Humberto Brenes 51,000
NOTABLE DAY 2 ELIMINATIONS
Leo Fernandez, Elio Fox, Felipe Ramos, Bill Gazes and Nacho Barbero.
TOP 10 PAYOUTS (BRA REAL) 1st : 324,600 2nd : 214,700 3rd : 148,840 4th : 89,570 5th : 64,540 6th : 48,730 7th : 35,560 8th : 26,340 9th : 22,390 10th : 22,390 DEFENDING CHAMPION Alex Manzano 2011 PTPR Ranking: 198th | PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final LAPT NLH Grand Final February 17-20, 2012 Sheraton WTC Sao Paulo | Sao Paulo, Brazil Buy-in: $2,335 | Prizepool: $792,720 Entries: 367 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 35 2nd place 18 3rd place 10 4th place 8 5th place 5 |
