Poker Hispano Tour
Las Vegas and the WSOP is far behind us already, August and September belog to the past, now it's October, raining and another month of concentrated Costa Rican poker action has begun.
The crew and owners behind the first Spanish poker magazine PokerHispano took over management of the poker room at the Ramada Inn Herradura earlier in 2009. You will recognize many of the names, i.e. WPT winner Jose Rosenkrantz, his brother Abraham and Alex Brenes. Backed up and supported by the large majority of pros and celebrities in Costa Rica and with their excellent network throughout the Hispanic poker communities they have created THE place to play poker with action every day of the week.
Now they have introduced the Poker Hispano Tour. In an attempt to improve the efforts of LAPT and the World Poker Showdown and make it even more attractive to players, the stacks are deeper than ever before, and the tournament management is the best in the country, run by Fernando Obando and his team.
A big handlful of Guanacaste players made it to San Jose for the first two tournaments this week, i.e. a friendly $50 warm-up tournament (nobody cashed, Julian won the lastlonger bet) and Tuesday a $300 buy-in event. In the latter Tyler and I were the only Guanacas alive at the final stages, but while I busted in 13th place (95 players total) Tyler made the 10th place and cashed.
Last night it was time for the last Super Satellite leading up to the main event, and despite the organizers had it scheduled to 9 p.m. (and thus we would be playing until the wee hours) I decided to give it a shot. I'll make a long story short: In a field of 104 players there were 10 $1,500 seats and a $880 credit for the 11th finisher. At 4.45 in the morning I was chip leader and the 12th place finisher had just been busted. Everybody's eyes were puffy and we could hardly talk, so we decided that every body chip in to fill up to 11 full seats, and I decided I did not want to be the asshole of the bunch despite my 99,9% chance of qualifying so I also coughed up and I could drive home while the sun was rising.
Ready now to do the right thing, stay alive on day 1 (3 days total), hopefully double my stack during the day and be ready to go in agression mode on day 2. $150,000 is the guaranteed prize pool, it'll be bigger if we get more than 100 players, but I doubt we'll exceed that number in these days of cash crisis.
wanna know more? www.pokerhispano.com
The crew and owners behind the first Spanish poker magazine PokerHispano took over management of the poker room at the Ramada Inn Herradura earlier in 2009. You will recognize many of the names, i.e. WPT winner Jose Rosenkrantz, his brother Abraham and Alex Brenes. Backed up and supported by the large majority of pros and celebrities in Costa Rica and with their excellent network throughout the Hispanic poker communities they have created THE place to play poker with action every day of the week.
Now they have introduced the Poker Hispano Tour. In an attempt to improve the efforts of LAPT and the World Poker Showdown and make it even more attractive to players, the stacks are deeper than ever before, and the tournament management is the best in the country, run by Fernando Obando and his team.
A big handlful of Guanacaste players made it to San Jose for the first two tournaments this week, i.e. a friendly $50 warm-up tournament (nobody cashed, Julian won the lastlonger bet) and Tuesday a $300 buy-in event. In the latter Tyler and I were the only Guanacas alive at the final stages, but while I busted in 13th place (95 players total) Tyler made the 10th place and cashed.
Last night it was time for the last Super Satellite leading up to the main event, and despite the organizers had it scheduled to 9 p.m. (and thus we would be playing until the wee hours) I decided to give it a shot. I'll make a long story short: In a field of 104 players there were 10 $1,500 seats and a $880 credit for the 11th finisher. At 4.45 in the morning I was chip leader and the 12th place finisher had just been busted. Everybody's eyes were puffy and we could hardly talk, so we decided that every body chip in to fill up to 11 full seats, and I decided I did not want to be the asshole of the bunch despite my 99,9% chance of qualifying so I also coughed up and I could drive home while the sun was rising.
Ready now to do the right thing, stay alive on day 1 (3 days total), hopefully double my stack during the day and be ready to go in agression mode on day 2. $150,000 is the guaranteed prize pool, it'll be bigger if we get more than 100 players, but I doubt we'll exceed that number in these days of cash crisis.
wanna know more? www.pokerhispano.com
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