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.

Fri, 01/21/2011 – 04:28 – PokerPages Staff

Czech poker fans can get a full schedule of poker entertainment on TV Nova Sport with constant coverage of PokerStars World Cup of Poker and the Caribbean Adventure last week.  There are also repeats of episodes from the Deepstack event held in Prague earlier in the month.

Online Poker Channel Europe still proves to provide the most consistent coverage of poker throughout the continent.  The will be re-showing excerpts from last weeks PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, the 2008 Grand Prix de Paris and re-runs of the classic Poker After Dark every night at 23.00.  The Poker Channel Europe is broadcast online and is directly available in 32 European countries via FreeSat in UK and Ireland, Noos and Numeric able in France, Net Cologne in Germany or KPN in Holland.

France’s Canal+ will be showing the World Poker Tour on Monday 17th January at 22.25 bringing the excitement and entertainment from previous episodes of this famous competition.  While on RTL9 they will be showing action from the $50k Poker after Dark series at 01.15 on Tuesday 18th January, with a marathon of poker programs starting at 22.25 on Thursday including WSOP 2010, followed by Poker Night Heads Up and PokerStars.net  ’Big Game’ on Direct Star featuring Phil Laak, Phil Hellmuth, and Doyle Brunson.

Polish television channel Sport Club is offering its viewer’s pokertainment with the Full Tilt series Poker after Dark at 22.00 and repeated again at 04.00 every weekday evening.