The 8th season of the Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final, hosted in Sao Paulo, Brazil, saw 426 participants take part “theNERDguy” take first place.
Brazilian player Yuri “theNERDguy” Martins took on Afonso Henrique in the heads up, which led to a two-way chop.
Martins eventually eliminated Henrique sending him off in second place with $138,806 and leaving the first prize of $169,652 for himself.
Before winning the LAPT Grand Final, Martins biggest win came when he placed second in the 2011 Brazilian Series of Poker Main Event in São Paulo for $110K.
This year's season, which began on November 25th through December 3rd, will pause for the remainder of this month before picking back up in season 9, the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in Nassau. The previous LAPT Bahamas $3,000 main event drew 736 participants creating high hopes for 2016, which offers a $2,200 unlimited re-buy format. The event will kick off on January 7, 2016 and run through January 9th.
Additional final table payouts:
3rd Andres Herrera $85,548 4th Ricardo Chauriye $67,948 5th Alexandre Rivero $53,284 6th Carlos Alves $41,740 7th Bruno Kawauti $31,382 8th Gustavo De Faria Lopes $22,290
Vanenhox
8 years ago
Well that is a lot of money to be paid suddenly BOOM here's a hundred and sixty nine thousand. It seems that these high stakes tournament players have a special amount of discipline, patience and daring all tied together by nerves of steel and an inscrutable poker face. I admire them and can't fathom how they do it.
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advoghado
8 years ago
Very Cool, another Brazilian player winning a final stage of the Latin American Poker Tour, this time Yuri "theNERDguy" Martins confirmed that also play live a lot, Yuri managed to be named player of poker on line twice and now he won a stage of a Big live tournament, Congratulations, Yuri, nice prize for first placing...
Very Cool, another Brazilian player winning a final stage of the Latin American Poker Tour, this time Yuri "theNERDguy" Martins confirmed that also play live a lot, Yuri managed to be named player of poker on line twice and now he won a stage of a Big live tournament, Congratulations, Yuri, nice prize for first placing the stage in Sao Paulo.
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