Fri, 01/21/2011 – 04:14 – PokerPages Staff

#5 – Jose “Nacho” Barbero
It seems slightly unfair to place this gifted young Argentinean in fifth position – he finished first twice during the third LAPT Season, winning very handsome sums on each occasion.  However, we decided to go by biggest single wins, Jose takes fifth position with his victory at the Punta del Este in 2010.  When Jose won $279,330 (if we’d included his other win, the figure would have been $525,330).

#4 – Karl Hevroy
A 20-year old university student from Norway seizes fourth place, making him the first Scandinavian to win the LAPT.  His victory came at the LAPT Season 2 Punta de Este resort in Uruguay back in 2009, when he took $283,580 back to his hometown in Bergen.

#3 Ryan Fee
San Jose Costa Rica was the exotic location for 20 year-old poker pro Ryan Fee to storm into our third place.  He won $285,773 on November 8 2008, which helped him decide to drop his studies at Philadelphia’s Drexel University and concentrate on professional poker instead.

#2 – Martin Sansour
By an impressive margin, a quiet Peruvian claims our runner up position.  Martin Sansour began Season 3 as a PokerStars qualifier but beat back 253 other players at the City Center Casino in Rosario on 26th November 2010.  He took one of the biggest prizes in LAPT history – £322,280.

#1 – Dominik Nitsche
The record holder, however, was a German high school student from Minden.  19 year-old Dominik Nitsche, who became Season 2′s LAPT champion at the Mar del Plata on April 19 2009, returned to his studies with the princely sum of $381,030 in his pocket.  He does not have to worry about working his way through college anymore.