The most popular poker tournament on the South American Continent, the Latin American Poker Tour was won by a 20-year-old Scandinavian student. The tournament has therefore expanded its international champions collection, which from now on includes Karl Hevroy, who won the poker tournament’s Main Event in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Karl Hevroy from Bergen, Norway says that he hasn’t actually planned to play the tournament in general and its Main Event in particular. However, with help of a group of Peruvian players Karl had met earlier at European Poker Tour in Copenhagen, he signed up to participate in Latin American Poker Tour, which made him almost $300,000 richer.

The LAPT’s Main Event, hosted by Punta del Este Casino and the Mantra Resort attracted more than three hundred player. Almost incredible $1,100,000 prize pool, which is the largest prize pool in the comparatively short history of this tournament, was accumulated due to an expensive $3,700 buy-in and a solid turnout.

The LAPT’s Main Event went pretty steamy and tight, although Karl Hevroy didn’t seem to experience any difficulties on his way to victory. First, one of Hevroy’s opponents Oliver Rowe flopped a set of 3s with his entire chip stack in the middle of the table, which put him to the fifth place with only $59,960, while Hevroy’s KQ hit a straight on the river. Then Ron Wasiel got his fourth place in the table with $82,160, with his J9 and TT9 flop against Hevroy’s two Jacks. The only danger that Karl Hevroy faced during the tournament was a stressful confrontation with Angel Guillen, who was the only player that had the best opportunity to break Hevroy’s success. He went all-in in the middle preflop holding AJ against Hevroy’s AT on the last hand played before the break, but Karl Hevroy managed to win in this extremely difficult situation, when the board brought him QT667, which immediately sent his opponent to the third place with $99,120 in cash.

After that, Hevroy was on the straight path to the victory and needed only one first hand right after the dinner break to defeat the only remaining opponent, Alejandro De Arruabarrena, who started with QJ, which didn’t work out with the 998 flop, while Hevroy’s luck brought him 98. Alejandro De Arrubarrena had only 0,81% chance of winning, but the turn didn’t show him a saving card. Second place left the tournament with $155,420.

Hevroy says that he didn’t feel that he was really stronger than his opponents. Anyhow, he leaves the tournament with almost 300 grand. Hevroy and other LAPT champions will be back in action in the end of the next month at the Latin American Poker Tournament Grand Final that will take place in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

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