Alex Manzano Wins the LAPT – Biggest player Field Ever!!
What was the largest tournament field in PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour field history has played its way down to a champion. On the fourth and final day of the event, Chile’s Alex Manzano bested local favorite Joao ‘joao bauer’ Neto heads up to become the LAPT Sao Paulo champion, taking home the trophy and R $615,840 top prize.
The R $5,000 buy-in main event drew 536 entrants, easily surpassing the tour’s previous record of 394 players. Each of the top 64 players earned at least R $9,570 of the R $2,391,630 prize pool. A staggering 325 of the tournament entrants were natives of Brazil, but it was Manzano who took the first place payout of R $615,840 ($370,586), which is the second-largest top prize ever for the LAPT. Manzano is Chile’s first ever LAPT champion. For his runner-up finish, Neto earned R $352,760.
Team PokerStars pro Humbero Brenes had a deep run but ultimately fell short of the final table, finishing in 15th place.
Here are the final table results:
1. Alex Manzano, Chile — R $615,840
2. Joao Neto, Brazil — R $352,760
3. Marcelo Fonseca, Brazil — R $ 224,800
4. Marcio Motta, Brazil — R $165,000
5. Leandro Csome, Argentina — R $117,190
6. Santiago Nadal, Mexico — R $93,270
7. Henrique Bernardes, Brazil — R $69,350
8. Bruno Politano, Brazil — R $45,440
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