The Latin American Poker Tour Peru Main Event was completed mere hours ago and the Chilean Claudio Moya emerged victorious to capture the trophy and the amount of $135,576 for his first place.
The tournament took place at Atlantic City Casino in Lima, the capital of Peru. As many as 366 entrants took part in the $2,500 buy-in event. As already mentioned, Claudio Moya became the winner after a challenging heads-up play that lasted almost four hours.
Eventually, Moya managed to defeat Chadi Moustapha from Lebanon and the latter had to content himself with the runner-up position and the amount of $120,000 of the created prize pool. This is not the first LAPT Main Event Moustapha takes part in, though. Last year, he finished 14th and captured the amount of $9,880 for his participation.
Speaking of the final table, fans of LAPT defined it as a bit unusual as compared to the events held in the previous years. First of all, it took almost 10 hours before the champion is determined. The second baffling thing was that no Peruvian player made it to the final table. Jose Espinoza was the best performing Peruvian player in the event and he finished 11th.
As for the performance of Claudio Moya, he started the final day as a chip leader and the soon-to-be champion went well ahead of Moustapha with 4.53 million in chips, while his opponent held 2.67 million. However, regardless of the significant difference, they opted for an even split of $120,000 apiece.
Soon after, Moustapha took the lead by flopping a set of 4’s. He has been keeping the lead for quite some time, but positions changed when Moustapha’s pocket aces could not stand a chance against Moya’s straight. Then, the Lebanese player pushed with [Qd] [Js]
against his opponent’s [As] [4s]
and the winner was determined.
The other entrants who were paid and entered the top 8 of LAPT Main Event were the Colombian Daniel Ramirez who finished third and captured $71,780 from the prize pool. Cristian Aceiton Ruiz from Chile was granted the 4th place as well as the amount of $58,060. Marcus Martinez and Helio Neves were the two Brazilians who made it to the final table. They took the 5th and the 6th position, respectively.
Jose Ili from Chile and his compatriot Ricardo Chauriye were ranked 7th and 8th and captured $26,320 and $19,060 of the prize pool.
