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.