Thursday, October 23, 2014

Oscar Alache Wins PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final for $135,488



The seventh season of the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour came to a detailed over the weekend with the LAPT Peru Grand Final wrapping up. The $1,700 Main Event attracted 692 entries and generated a prize pool of $1,040,420. The player walking away with the title was Chilean Oscar Alache, and he claimed a top prize of $135,488 for the win.

Final Table Payouts

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Oscar AlacheChile$135,488*
2Daniel Campodónico ArigonUruguay$128,252*
3Jerson Backmann CaballeroMexico$140,519*
4Marcos Skerl ExterkotterBrazil$65,240
5Luis Alfonso Pérez HarreroVenezuela$51,920
6José Andrés TorreArgentina$39,840
7Jakub KyrianCzech Republic$28,820
8Carlos SobenesPeru$19,660

*Denotes a three-handed deal.

The host country of Peru had just one final table member, and that was Carlos Sobenes, however the eight seats were represented by eight different countries to make for an excessively international affair. Sobenes ended up in eighth place for $19,660, after which Czech Republic's Jakub Kyrian was eliminated in seventh for $28,820.

When action set out to the overall three players, a deal was made. In line with reports from the PokerStars Blog, Jerson Backmann Caballero had the chip lead with approximately 6,000,000 in his stack. Daniel Campodónico Arigon was second with slightly over 5,000,000, after which Alache had lower than 2,500,000. The unique payouts were planned as $197,540 for the winner, $120,580 to the runner-up, and $86,140 for third place, however the three agreed on $140,519 for Backmann, $128,252 for Campodonico, and $115,488 for Alache with $20,000 and the title left at the table to play for.

After finding a double up and fighting his long ago into the thick of it, Alache was heads up with Campodónico following the elimination of Backmann in third place. When the battle began, Campodónico had 10,900,000 in chips to Alache's 2,865,000.

Alache doubled right away after which again shortly thereafter when his two pair held against Campodónico's flush draw. The second one double knocked Campodónico all the way down to 3,205,000, and things ended not too long after.

On the general hand, Alache had the  A-Diamonds  6-Hearts against Campodónico's  K-Spades  10-Spades , with Campodónico in danger. The flop, turn, and river ran out  Q-Spades  8-Spades  3-Clubs  7-Hearts  7-Clubs , and that was it. Campodónico was eliminated in second place to offer Alache the title and the extra $20,000 in prize money.

Photo courtesy of Carlos Monti from the PokerStars Blog.

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