LAPT GRAND FINAL: NESTOLA GRAND CHAMPION, NEGREANU ENDS UP SIXTH

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Daniele Nestola wins the Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final. Nesotla collects the biggest cash of his career, having survived a 367-player field here in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Nestola defeated Gasperino Nicolas heads up.


KID POKER RUNS INTO ACES
Despite not having one of the top chip stacks, most still believed that Daniel Negreanu was the man to beat when play started on Monday. Unfortunately, Negreanu ran into aces and ended up finishing sixth in the event, right outside PTPR Points qualification.

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (BRA REAL) Daniele Nestola : 324,600 Gasperino Nicolas : 214,700 Carlos Ibarra : 148,840 Felipe Morbiducci : 89,570 Jonathan Markovits : 64,540 Daniel Negreanu : 48,730 Vitor Torres : 35,560 Juan Gonzalez : 26,340 RELATED POSTS >> KID POKER AT FINAL TABLE >> PIMENTA LEADS, KID POKER TRENDS >> MENEDEZ MASTERS COLUMBIA EVENT COVERAGE >> POKERNEWS

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 DANIELE NESTOLA 35 GASPERINO NICOLAS 18 CARLOS IBARRA 10 FELIPE MORBIDUCCI 8 JONATHAN MARKOVITS 5 DEFENDING CHAMPION Alex Manzano 2011 PTPR Ranking: 198th

LAPT GRAND FINAL: PIMENTA LEADS WHILE KID POKER, RUCA TRENDING

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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.

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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

POKER ROUND-UP: BRASILIAN TOUR SAO PAULO AND BINIONS CLASSIC

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We have collected recent tournament results from the inaugural Brasilian Poker Tour event in Sao Paulo, the Spring into Summer Main Event at Foxwoods and the Binions Poker Classic.

BRASILIAN POKER TOUR MAIN EVENT SAO PAULO
Danish pro Rolf Andersen came a long, long way to win his first major live tournament. Andersen becomes the very first Brasilian Poker Tour Main Event winner, winning the Sao Paulo Main Event.

BINION'S POKER CLASSIC
Also earlier in July, Todd Breyfogle collected his first PTPR Points of the season, defeating Rhys Jones to win the Binion's Poker Classic in Las Vegas. Steven Watts was third in the event - Watts collected 23 PTPR Points in the 10K Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better Championship at the World Series of Poker last month.


PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Brasilian Poker Tour Sao Paulo presented by PokerStars
BPT Sao Paulo NLH Main Event
July 21-25, 2011

Hotel Transcontinental Sao Paulo | Brazil
Buy-in: $1,450 | Prizepool: $420,240 | Entries: 328

FINAL RESULTS:
ROLF ANDERSEN 35
SANYO CAPOBIANGO 18
LUIZ PHERI 10
HONORIUS WAGNER 8
RONALDO LEITE 5

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Binion's Poker Classic
NLH Main Event
June 30-1, 2011

Binion's Gambling Hall | Las Vegas
Buy-in: $1,000 | Prizepool: $289,351 | Entries: 314

FINAL RESULTS:
TODD BREYFOGLE 35
RHYS JONES 18
STEVEN WATTS 10
LUKASZ GRABOWSKI 8
JAVIER CAL 5

OFF TO SAO PAULO, MALTA, PALM BEACH AND COPENHAGEN

We have a little lull in the action today but things are about to heat up - big time!

Some major events are set to begin on Thursday. In Brazil, the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) hits Sao Paulo, Brazil and the Sheraton WTC Sao Paulo.

Malta is the second stop of 2011 for the Pokerstars.com Italian Poker Tour (IPT) at Casino at Portomaso.

The WSOP Circuit visits Florida for the first time since it's rebrand. The Palm Beach Kennel Club is set to host the WSOPC Ring Events.

And finally, Anton Wigg will defend his title at EPT Copenhagen at Casino Copenhagen in Denmark.


Stay tuned to the PTPR for tournament coverage.