Chile
LAPT6 Chile: Numbers don't favor the Team Pros
In many ways, poker is a game of numbers. Chips, big blinds, bets, players, levels, average stack, players remaining - they're all about numbers. As the field slims down towards about a quarter of the number who started at noon, it is left with exactly one quarter of the Team PokerStars Pros who sta...more
LAPT6 Chile: The smile
Humor me with a thought exercise, if you would. I'd like you to imagine a table of nine poker players who are playing in an $1,100 no-limit hold'em tournament. Got your image? It probably involves almost exclusively men, many wearing sunglasses and baseball caps, almost all stony-faced and with litt...more
LAPT6 Chile: No record... yet
377 entries is not a single-day record for the Latin American Poker Tour. That high-water mark is still held by the initial event of Season 4, a whopper held in São Paulo, Brazil that attracted 536 entries in a single day. Today's field doesn't even top the 2nd-place event, LAPT4 Punta del Este, whi...more
LAPT6 Chile: A window on Chile
I've spent a substantial portion of my life looking out of windows. Family road trips as a child turned into commuter train trips as a university student. When I took my first international trip as an 18-year-old in 1995, I requested a window seat for the 14-hour flight from New York to Tokyo. In be...more
LAPT6 Chile: Chip off the old stack
You have to get up early to get anything past the LAPT tournament staff.A sharp-eyed dealer thought something was odd about one of the yellow (1,000) chips put into a pot by a player at his table after the first break. He plucked the offending chip out of the pot and waved over a floor person. "This...more
LAPT6 Chile: Sheirbon sets up shop
The first LAPT event I ever covered was the kick-off event for Season 2 in San Jose, Costa Rica. That was a time when Americans dominated LAPT events. Indeed, at the final table in Costa Rica that year only Maria Stern and Venezuela's Jesus Bertoli could claim any affiliation with the region. The re...more
LAPT to kick off Season 6 in Chile
In less than two months, the Latin American Poker Tour will return for its sixth season. The biggest and richest poker tour in the region plans to kickstart the year with a full festival at the Enjoy Casino & Resort in Viña del Mar, Chile. Running March 13-17, the $1,000 + 100 main event is famous f...more
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