It's another eclectic bunch for today's Latin American Poker Tour Main Event final table, with three Americans, two Colombians, and players from Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Spain. The crowd brings a lot of experience and past results to today's final table.
The LAPT9 Panama Main Event final table
As we ready for the 12 noon start today, spend a little bit time learning all of the final eight a bit of better below.
Seat 1: Austin Peck, USA -- 1,351,000
Austin Peck
Though he won't be turning 21 until this August, Austin Peck has already had a variety of experience on the tournament tables where he's been collecting cashes steadily for the last couple of years playing in places where the playing age is eighteen and up.
In the us he's cashes on several different tours, the highlight coming this February when he won a WSOP Circuit ring in an event at West Palm Beach. A FEW weeks after that he finished 20th on the earth Poker Tour Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event in Niagara Falls, then last month earned a career-high cash of $24,467 by final-tabling the WPT DeepStacks event in Jacksonville, Florida where he finished fifth. Taking sixth or better today will exceed that total. --MH
Seat 2: Anderson Blanco, Colombia -- 1,225,000
Anderson Blanco
One of 2 Colombians at today's final table, Anderson Blanco carried the chip lead into yesterday's Day 3, fell back to short-stacked status for far of the afternoon, then successfully climbed back to have an almost-average stack to start out today's final table. Blanco has already guaranteed himself a career-high score today, wherever he finishes. He also has topped his previous highest finish in an LAPT Main Event, a 19th-place showing at LAPT5 Colombia. --MH
Seat 3: Ruben Suarez, Venezuela -- 1,477,000
Ruben Suarez
Ruben Suarez is the 13th Venezuelan player to make an LAPT Main Event final table, and hopes to be the primary of that group to wreck through and claim a title. He has just a couple of cashes on his tournament poker résumé thus far, including a 27th-place finish within the LAPT8 Peru Main Event a year ago. His biggest cash came here in Panama City back in January when he won a $1,000 Jackies Poker Tour event, topping a 235-entry field to earn $48,000. --MH
Seat 4: Paul Cukier, Costa Rica -- 1,341,000
Paul Cukier
The lone Costa Rican left within the field, Paul Cukier comes from a poker-playing family, as he's the grandson of Max and Maria Stern, the primary husband and wife ever to every win a WSOP bracelet. Cukier has a handful of previous small cashes collected within the USA, on the PCA within the Bahamas, and in San Jose in his native country. His biggest previous cash was for $4,043 for finishing 156th in a WSOP event back in 2012, so he's already assured himself of a career-high payday here in Panama today. --MH
Seat 5: Alcides Gomez, USA -- 562,000
Alcides Gomez
The Miami based pro Alcides Gomez has his justifiable share of ultimate table results and experience including a podium finish from last month's Seminole Hard Rock Poker Challenge Main Event. He'll return today because the low man at the totem pole, playing just over 560,000 and he'll want to spin up a stack if he'll notch another podium finish on this LAPT9 Panama Main Event. --WOC
Seat 6: Raul Paez, Spain -- 2,580,000
Raul Paez
Raul Paez will return to the overall table because the chip leader. With over $1,800,000 in career earnings, "El Toro" is essentially the most experienced player remaining and he's hoping that the third time will also be the charm at an LAPT final table. The Spaniard finished third on the Main Event final table in Columbia during Season 5, then three years ago bubbled the overall table in Panama. --WOC
Seat 7: Andres Carrillo, Colombia -- 659,000
Andres Carrillo
Andres Carrillo returns as certainly one of two players under the million-chip mark, meaning that the Columbian is often active early at this LAPT9 Panama final table. Carrillo's past tournament results are relatively few and much between, but with scores from around the globe -- including EPT final table finishes in Barcelona and Malta -- if he's capable of finding an early double, he'll be a contender. --WOC
Seat 8: Aaron Mermelstein, USA -- 1,802,000
Aaron Mermelstein
As we said yesterday, if chip leader Raul Paez is the creme, Aaron Mermelstein is what settles just below the creme. He'll get back second in chips and the two-time World Poker Tour champion might be trying to make Sortis Hotel, Spa & Casino history today. He currently sits third at the all-time Sortis money list and a deep run today could earn him his best career LAPT finish and move him up that leaderboard. --WOC
And as a reminder, here is what they're playing for (at the side of the LAPT trophy):
1st: $138,2252nd: $86,8803rd: $62,2004th: $48,5005th: $38,0406th: $29,8807th: $22,3008th: $15,440
Stick just about the PokerStars blog for start-to-finish coverage of the overall table today, including live updates, chip counts, photos, and more.
PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at LAPT9 Panama: Will O'Connor and Martin Harris. Photos by Carlos Monti. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog
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