Live at the LAPT

[kmind]

SHIP come on man!

[givememyleg]

We're in level 21 of the LAPT event in San Jose, Costa Rica. Blinds are 8,000-16,000 (2,000). Eight players were left at the start of the level. Updates will appear in this post. Click Refresh on your browser for latest news.

1.45pm: Players take a break at the end of a frenetic first level of the day. The full, official chip counts going into level 21 are:


Seat 1 -- Alec Torelli, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 910,000
Seat 2 -- Pawel Sanojca, Poland, PokerStars qualifier, 231,000
Seat 3 -- empty
Seat 4 -- Steven Silverman, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 533,000
Seat 5 -- Valdemar Kwaysser, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, 670,000
Seat 6 -- Ashton Griffin, United States, 237,000
Seat 7 -- Max Steinberg, USA, 389,000
Seat 8 -- Joe Ebanks, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 384,000
Seat 9 -- Alexander Soderlund, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, 621,000

[will641]

i can feel it in the air like phil collins. he is gonna win!

[pankfish]

He is doing so well because FTR isn't railing him imo.

[bigspenda73]

2.00pm: Joe Ebanks, PokerStars qualifier from the United States, eliminated in 8th place, earning $19,303
Level 21 starts with a major bang. Pre-flop, and from late position, Ashton Griffin opens for 32,000. Max Steinberg, clearly a little sick of this, shoves for 390,000(!) but he finds Joe Ebanks in the tank. Eventually Ender555 calls for his whole stack of 380,000 and Ashton gets out the way. Max flips A-A, and Joe shows Ah-Kh. No one can quite believe that this is the action, but it's true. We all saw it. There are two hearts on board by the turn, but the river bricks and Max all but doubles up, eliminating Joe Ebanks.

[will641]

6 left yo!

[nutsinho]

omg i cant believe he shipped aces.

[Schiplt]

hey max.... i have a 2 word question for you. Kaplans house?

[jyms]

NHai

[bigspenda73]

omg i cant believe he shipped aces.

silly internet kids always overplaying their big pairs

[givememyleg]

FTR REPRESENT YO

[mrhappy333]

[will641]

hey max.... i have a 2 word question for you. Kaplans house?

ha! if he went out right now it wouldnt even cover the property tax on the place for 1 year.

[givememyleg]

Seat 1 -- Alec Torelli, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 690,000
Seat 2 -- Pawel Sanojca, Poland, PokerStars qualifier, 420,000
Seat 4 -- Steven Silverman, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 400,000
Seat 5 -- Valdemar Kwaysser, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, 960,000
Seat 7 -- Max Steinberg, USA, 840,000
Seat 9 -- Alexander Soderlund, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, 600,000

2nd in chips! goooo!!!!!!

[pantherhound]

steiner recliner FTW gooooooo

[will641]

Pawell Sanojca busted. $58k guaranteed!

[mrhappy333]

when you win $$ in a different country, do you still have to pay American taxes?

[will641]

Seat 1 -- Alec Torelli, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 990,000
Seat 4 -- Steven Silverman, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 530,000
Seat 5 -- Valdemar Kwaysser, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, 1,300,000
Seat 7 -- Max Steinberg, USA, 775,000
Seat 9 -- Alexander Soderlund, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, 475,000

[UG]

steiner recliner FTW gooooooo

BIG POPPA PUMP IS YOUR HOOK UP! HOLLER....IF YOU HEAR ME!



this is awesome Max, go go go

[mrhappy333]

hed hot body rock doin it do, beer drinkin breath said your sniffin glue, crystal back no back no money bum, i come from FTR and I get er done!!

[Reidak]

more updates

[bigspenda73]

go to the update page yo

[mrhappy333]

more updates

qft

[Reidak]

4 handed now?

[mrhappy333]

go to the update page yo

linky?

[Reidak]

weird, site said 57K for 5th.. yet

5


Alec Torelli


USA


89,180


89,180


i guess the extra players beefed up the pool

[will641]

go to the update page yo

linky?

http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/live_updates/15291

[givememyleg]

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/

[will641]

chip leader with 4 left. holla.

[bigspenda73]

3.55pm: Alec Torelli, PokerStars qualifier from the United States, is eliminated in fifth place, earning $57,909
This is what happens when no player ever believes any of their opponents has a hand. From the cut-off seat, Alec Torelli makes a standard pre-flop raise of 45,000. From the big blind, Max Steinberg bumps it up to 150,000. Alec doesn't stand for it and shoves all in for 710,000 and Max insta-calls. Steinberg shows aces and Alec's pocket threes don't get any help from the board. Traheho is out of here.

Max has moved into the chip lead with more than 1.5million. Valdemar is in second spot, with Alexander and Steven the shorter stacks.

[bikes]

Hello chip lead! GO GO GO

[a500lbgorilla]

siiiick

[bigspenda73]

stacks another pot

LET'S DO THIS ONE TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME

[pankfish]

Final 3

[will641]

Final 3

where does it say that?

[jyms]

4.25pm: Alexander Soderland, PokerStars qualifier from Sweden, is eliminated in fourth place, earning $77,212
No sooner is the level started than Alexander Soderland is all in and all out. He had the short stack and shoved it in pre-flop. But he must have been fearing the worst when Valdemar Kwaysser also announced all-in from the small blind. In the event, he had two live ones with Q-2 against Valdemar's A-K. But a king flopped, an ace turned and Soderlund was on his way back to Sweden.

[bigspenda73]

zomg 100kaments

[will641]

HOLLA YO!

[givememyleg]

ok 3 way chip lead GO STEINBERG

[bigspenda73]

4.20pm We've just started the new level and a white chip has been introduced to play, worth 25,000. Max Steinerg is the only one with any of them at the moment and he is the chip leader

/ballin

[pankfish]

Costa Rica is rigged imo


4.45pm The first dent is taken out of Max Steinberg as he doubles up his fellow American Steven Silverman. Silverman starts the pot with about 775,000 and pocket eights, Steinberg has him well covered in chips but is well behind in cards, with pocket fives. The board bricks and Silverman is up to about 1.5 million. Silverman and Steinberg are now close in chips, with Valdemar third. They all have more than a million.

[givememyleg]

4.45pm The first dent is taken out of Max Steinberg as he doubles up his fellow American Steven Silverman. Silverman starts the pot with about 775,000 and pocket eights, Steinberg has him well covered in chips but is well behind in cards, with pocket fives. The board bricks and Silverman is up to about 1.5 million. Silverman and Steinberg are now close in chips, with Valdemar third. They all have more than a million.

but a flesh wound.....

[bigspenda73]

fucking rogged

danny kick lee jones in the nuts for me, k thx

[dthorne04]

zugwat is on suicide watch, KK loses to the juggernaut T5ss

gogogo max

[badgers]

asdvhihkbadf k a\dfx v

omfg wow

GOGOGOGO

[will641]

this is proof that pokerstars is rigged. even the live tourneys are rigged!

[XTR1000]

wow, i come home and see this.

GOGOGOGOGO MAX!!!!!!11!11!!!!1!!1!1!

[will641]

lol

[dthorne04]

that dude looks constipated.

[givememyleg]

http://www.flopturnriver.com/blogs/m...inal-table-613

featurrrrrrrrrrrred

[pankfish]

HU now, just don't let that foreigner bad beat you.

[dthorne04]

a+ carl.

good god, zugwat out in third, max HU down 3-1, but in no trouble. god, zugwat ran awful. KK < T5ss, and then 55 < 22.

[will641]

HES SO BAD/LUCKY!

5.15pm: Steven Silverman, PokerStars qualifier from United States, is eliminated in third place, earning $106,167Oh. My. God. Steven Silverman has clearly upset someone in a high place as he has just taken his second shocking beat and is now out of this thing. This time, he limps on the button and Valdemar raises from the small blind. Silverman pushes his entire stack of about 700,000 in, and Valdemar thinks for a while before making what he clearly knows is a crying call. Indeed it is: he has 2s-2c and is way behind Silverman's red pocket fives. But the board again favours the Hungarian as it comes 4s-8c-8s and then the killer turn and river of Js Ks to fill the flush with Valdemar's 2s.

[zook]

Max HU, already banked $144k. SO FUCKING SICK!

Take it down Max! NO DEALS!

edit: Take a deal if you want, but I'm sure you're +EV HU against this guy and the shorter stack always gets shafted by deals based on chip count. And awesome you're repping FTR!

[zook]

Following this and the $25k HU on FTP makes me feel like a super railtard, but oh yeah...

6.05pm: Double up for Max Steinberg and this time Valdemar gets a taste of his own outdraw medicine. They get it all in pre-flop with A-10 for Valdemar and J-K for Max. The flop is blank, but the turn is the king, which brings a roar from the rail. No ace appears on the river and Max doubles up to about 1.2million. Valdemar still has 2.8 million.

[will641]

ghey...

6.10pm: Another pot for the Hungarian, and a bluff gone awry for Max. Max bets 35,000 on a flop of 10c-3h-Ac, which Valdemar calls. The turn is the 5s and Max bets 80,000. Valdemar calls 80,000. The river is 6d and Max checks. Valdemar bets 250,000 and Max check-raises to 500,000. Valdear calls instantly, but might think he's behind with A-2, for top pair, no kicker. But Max is forced to show K-4 for nothing, and another 700,000 or so goes to Valdemar.

Valdemar has about 3.5million to Max's 500,000.

[bigspenda73]

ghey...

6.10pm: Another pot for the Hungarian, and a bluff gone awry for Max. Max bets 35,000 on a flop of 10c-3h-Ac, which Valdemar calls. The turn is the 5s and Max bets 80,000. Valdemar calls 80,000. The river is 6d and Max checks. Valdemar bets 250,000 and Max check-raises to 500,000. Valdear calls instantly, but might think he's behind with A-2, for top pair, no kicker. But Max is forced to show K-4 for nothing, and another 700,000 or so goes to Valdemar.

Valdemar has about 3.5million to Max's 500,000.

are we sure Danny didn't step in for an orbit or two?

[pankfish]

145K aint bad. GG

[zook]

Awesome run Max. Congrats.

[badgers]

fucking awesome well played

[givememyleg]

nooooooooo max lost

but damn, gg man, seriously it's awesome to see you go so deep. sucks you didn't win but ship the $150k! gj!!

[a500lbgorilla]

AWESOME JOB!

[will641]

lol their dads gonna be like wtf max, you didnt win?

[Warpe]

Congratulations, Max. Very well done.

[bigspenda73]

gg, Hookers on Max in LV this summer

[Schiplt]

hey max. i have a two word question for you..... Kaplans garage? jk.... gg, you my jew!

[will641]

the cib didnt work so well the second time.

[bode]

gg max. awesome run.

[thizzSantaCruz]

good shit dude. amazing run, congratulations.

[mrhappy333]

PARTAY

gg!!

[meeloche]

Nice!!! Congratz Max!!!

[gabe]

well done

[Galapogos]

ghey...

6.10pm: Another pot for the Hungarian, and a bluff gone awry for Max. Max bets 35,000 on a flop of 10c-3h-Ac, which Valdemar calls. The turn is the 5s and Max bets 80,000. Valdemar calls 80,000. The river is 6d and Max checks. Valdemar bets 250,000 and Max check-raises to 500,000. Valdear calls instantly, but might think he's behind with A-2, for top pair, no kicker. But Max is forced to show K-4 for nothing, and another 700,000 or so goes to Valdemar.

Valdemar has about 3.5million to Max's 500,000.

are we sure Danny didn't step in for an orbit or two?

I lol'd pretty hard.

Congrats though man! Definitely a huge score to be proud of. Damn foreigners...

[donkbee]

was rooting for you when I found out you were at the FT ... and then when you were HU ... Nice run, sir! Got plans for your money? What kind of deal did you have with Danny (I'm assuming you had a piece of each other)?

[Galapogos]

Yep, first comes the money, now the hot chicks start noticing ya ^^^^^^