Lima limpers and booming Baumgartner
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We��ve come to the end of the first ever Day 1 of LAPT Lima and it��s been a day of punishing limpers and running caliente. We started with an impressive 374 runners for the $2,500 main event and have ended the day with - according to the big monitor but ten metres in front of my face - 197 players. That��s close to half the field gone and within that number we have lost several of Latin America��s growing stars; Leo Fernandez, Alex Gomez, Fabian Ortiz, Andre Akkari, Christian De Leon and Angel Guillen are but a few that could be named. We��ve also waved goodbye to players whose faces (as well as beards and caps) would be recognised in any cardroom around the world, i.e. Dennis Phillips.
That said, this tournament isn��t about who has been knocked out it��s about who is still in and, most importantly, who has a filthy great stack of chips. That honour is held by Jacob Baumgartner (122,900), Luis Hernandez (113,000) and David ��locoo�� Figueroa (107,350) who have all broken into six figures. Hernandez had taken a chip lead earlier in the day playing big pot poker winning a 67,000 pot with kings against a flush draw. Jacob Baumgartner, however, had inexorably grown his stack by ��running like God.�� His words, not ours. Baumgartner had flopped a couple of important sets and one well-timed quads before winning a three-way pot late on against a couple of short stacks. The American had also been following a friend, Dash Dudley, who finished 8th in the WSOP $1,000 for $67,221. Baumgartner held 5% so it��s been a pretty +EV day all round for him.
We��ll be starting at 12pm tomorrow and playing eight-handed through to the final 24. Join us from the beginning where we can expect to lose a large chunk of the field in the first couple of levels before things inevitably slow up towards the bubble (49th). Official chip counts will appear overnight.