POKERSTARS LAUNCHES LAPT SEASON 3 IN BEAUTIFUL COSTA RICA IN NOVEMBER
POKERSTARS LAUNCHES LAPT SEASON 3
IN BEAUTIFUL COSTA RICA IN NOVEMBER
Isle of Man UK, – October 29, 2009 —PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, has announced the schedule for the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Season 3. After the huge success of the first two seasons, LAPT Season 3 will kick off in Costa Rica. The event will run from November 19-22, 2009 at the 5-Star Paradisius Playa Conchal Resort & Casino.
Players can buy-in to the Main Event in Costa Rica for $2,500+$200. PokerStars.net is also running daily freeroll tournaments giving players the chance to win a prize package worth $6,000. The package will include tournament buy-in, accommodation and spending money.
Team PokerStars PRO and Costa Rican poker legend Humberto Brenes said: “In just two seasons, the Latin American Poker Tour has become the biggest poker tour in the region. It attracts the best players from Latin America and all over the world. Last season, the prize pool hit a million dollars in Costa Rica and I know we’re going to beat that this time! I am very proud to play in Costa Rica – it’s my home country and a very special event for me. Tell everyone to come here – the Shark is waiting for them!”
Brenes will host Humberto’s ‘Shark Hunt’ Bounty Charity Tournament supported by PokerStars, with the winner receiving an LAPT Chile package. The turbo structure charity tournament will be held on November 18, 2009 with a buy-in of $100. Half of the prize pool will be donated to The Whitley Fund for Nature. The donation will be matched by Humberto Brenes and PokerStars. The other half of the prize pool will form the Team PokerStars PRO bounty and be divided equally amongst the Team PokerStars PRO’s that play. To add to the ‘Shark Hunt’ experience there will be an extra bounty on Humberto Brenes; giving players the chance to win an hour-long poker lesson from the ‘Shark’.
Following Costa Rica the LAPT will visit; the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in The Bahamas, Punta del Este in Uruguay, Vina del Mar in Chile and Argentina for the Grand Final.
“I can’t wait for the start of LAPT Season 3,” said Andre Akkari, Team PokerStars PRO Brazil. “Costa Rica is such an amazing country. I’m really happy that the tour will take in the PCA event in The Bahamas - it’s one of my favorite tournaments of the year - it’s got everything; with over 50 poker events and fun activities in the sun for friends and family!”
Last season the LAPT attracted over a thousand players from around the world including Team PokerStars PROs Daniel Negreanu, Andre Akkari and Alex Gomes as well as PokerStars Ambassador and tennis legend Boris Becker. This season’s tour looks set to smash records for poker events in the region, giving PokerStars.net qualifiers the chance to test their skills against some of the world’s top pros.
| EVENT/DATES | BUY-IN |
|---|---|
| LAPT Playa Conchal (Costa Rica) Nov 19-22, 2009 |
$2,500 + $200 |
| PCA (Bahamas) Jan 4-14, 2010 |
$10,000 + $300 |
| LAPT Punta del Este (Uruguay) Feb 24-27, 2009 |
$3,500 + $200 |
| LAPT Vina del Mar (Chile) Mar 20-23, 2010 |
$2,500 + $200 |
| LAPT Finale Argentina Dates TBC |
$5,000 + $300 |
PokerStars LAPT Costa Rica freeroll tournaments are running daily at PokerStars.net. Players have the chance to win a prize package including Main Event buy-in, five nights hotel accommodation and money for expenses. Please visit http://www.lapt.com/ for more information, updates and details on how to qualify.
About www.pokerstars.net:
PokerStars is the world’s largest poker site, with more than 28 million members around the world. It’s the first choice of the world’s top players, with more daily tournaments than anywhere else and the best security online. More hands have been dealt on PokerStars than any other site - over 34 billion hands dealt to date and more than 206 million tournaments played.
PokerStars operates worldwide under the license from the Isle of Man Government. A recent addition to the PokerStars family, PokerStars.IT, operates in Italy under an Italian Government license.
PokerStars is in the record books, boasting the Guinness World Record for ’Largest Online Poker Tournament’ and ‘Most Players on an Internet Poker Room’.
PokerStars regularly sets the bar high, staging some of the biggest online and live poker tournaments in the world:
- The European Poker Tour (www.ept.com) attracts the best players and currently generates the biggest prize pool of any poker tour
- The Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com) unites the best players in South America
- The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (www.appt.com) does the same across the Pacific
- The World Cup of Poker, a unique fixture on the poker calendar that combines the online and live poker worlds for a team challenge that pitches nation against nation
- PokerStars is also the official sponsor of the; Russian Poker Tour, The Italian Poker Tour, The Czech-Slovak Poker Tour, The Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour
PokerStars is also home to an elite team of sponsored players known as Team PokerStars Pro – a group of established and up and coming players that travel the world competing in international tournaments. For a full list of Team PokerStars Pros visit http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/.
