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Rookie Spaniard Wins Latin American Poker Tour Uruguay

Jose Miguel Espinar Takes Down $241,735 at PokerStars Event in Uruguay

by Brendan Murray  |  Published: Aug 11, 2008

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Jose Miguel Espinar, from Valencia, Spain has won the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour in Punta del Este, Uruguay taking home $241,735 for topping the field of 351 players. Remarkably, Espinar has only been playing poker for nine months.

The Spaniard beat Alex Brenes, brother of Humberto, heads up to lift the title. Brenes made a final table at an earlierAlex Brenes who came second in Uruguary for his second final table of the LAPT LAPT event and took home $126,675 for his second place finish in Uruguay.

Players travelled from all over the world to take part in the event with 34 countries represented and across the three events (the others were held in Rio de Janiero, Brazil and San José, Costa Rica) over one-third of the entire field of 1,110 players qualified on PokerStars.

The final nine who took the lion’s share of the $851,175 in Punta del Este were:

  1. Jose Miguel Espinar (Spain) — $241,735
  2. Alex Brenes (Costa Rica) — $127,675
  3. Lisandro Gallo (Argentina) — $93,630
  4. Alexandre Gomes (Brazil) — $68,100
  5. Gylbert Drolet (Canada) — $51,070
  6. Sidney Chreem (Brazil) — $34,045
  7. Juan Jose Perez (Argentina) — $25,535
  8. Paulo Cesar Ribeiro (Brazil) — $17,025
  9. Carlos Curi (Argentina) — $12,765

To qualify for events in glamourous locales across the globe play at PokerStars.com.

 
 
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