Final Table Set in LAPT Peru Main Event

If it happened any quicker it would have happened in a flash, but it did not take long for 32 players to turn into 8 on Day 3 of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Peru Main Event.

After just four and a half hours of play, the final table was set as chips flew and players were eliminated as competition flared up.

At the end of it all, it was Chilean player Claudio Moya who finished the third day of play on top of the chip ladder. Moya will enter the final table with 1,573,000 chips to his name, which is significantly more than most of the other remaining players.

Colombian poker shark Daniel Ramirez will be the only other final table player with a seven figure stack heading into the last day of the event. He finished the Day 3 bagging a stack of 1,503,000 and he is the only player who represents an immediate danger for the chip leader.

However, we all know anything and everything can happen at a final table, so Moya’s victory is far from guaranteed at this stage of the game.

Chadi Moustapha is the only non-Latin American to have made it to the final table. The Lebanese player will enter Day 4 with 900,000 chips, good enough to be the third largest stack of the remaining eight players.

Andres Herrera had the chip lead at the start of Day 3, but his chip count began taking a battering at the day’s later stages, and he was eventually eliminated in 15th place by Ramirez. It came when Herrera went all-in pre flop with Ace Ten against the Colombian’s King Jack. While Herrera was initially in the lead, a King on the turn gave Ramirez a pair and eventually the pot.

The final home player in the LAPT Peru was eliminated soon after as Peruvian player Jose Espinoza was knocked out of the event in 11th spot.

Former LAPT Peru champion Patricio Rojas narrowly missed his chance of getting a second victory in Lima as he was the last player to be eliminated on Day 3.

He had a good starting hand with Pocket Kings, but the flop on his final hand gave Moya a straight, and the Chilean was more than happy to call Rojas’ all-in on the turn to put the tournament down to eight.

With all players showing their hunger for victory, the LAPT Peru Main Event final table is set to be as eventual as the rest of the event.

Photo: Carlos Monti, PokerStars Blog