#5 Dayan Vardanega is the Brazilian player who took 2nd place in the Florianopolis (Brazil) LAPT / Season three main event, cashing out $455,154.

#4 Jose Barbero, from Argentina, began playing poker online at PokerStars.  Barbero is a Team Poker Stars Pro and plays online with the screen name of ‘nachobarbero’.  Barbero has twenty-one cash finishes, including six first-place finishes, he ranks 4th in LAPT with earnings of $ 529,330.

#3 Joao Neto is a Brazilian player with two cash finishes in the LAPT; one at the LAPT Brazil – Season 4, where he finished 2nd, and the other at the Brazilian Series of Poker Main Event where he finished 1st.  Neto’s combined winning rank him as 4th in LAPT with earnings of $ 637,902.

#2 Matthias Habering is an Austrian Player who has had two cash finishes on the LAPT circuit.  He took first in the Florianopolis (Brazil) LAPT / Season 3 main event and 24th at the Lima (Peru) LAPT / Season 3 LAPT No Limit Hold’em Event.  Habering total winning are $788,193.

#1 Alex Manzano is a Chilean who took 1st place at LAPT Brazil – Season 4 LAPT Main Event No Limit.  That 1st place finish he took home winnings of $1,113,635, earning him the place of top money winner on LAPT circuit.

Thu, 02/17/2011 – 00:23 – PokerPages Staff

Poker programming airing the week of February 17, 2011:

Full Tilt Poker 2010 Doubles Poker Championship
The Doubles Poker Championship’s unique structure pairs players in a team to compete for the one million dollar first place prize.  Thirty-two of the top professional poker players competed as two-person teams, each team sharing each hand.  The first place prize, awarded to the winning team, is $1M.  The championship began with 16 teams.  The final four teams are Allen Cunningham and Huck Seed, Antanas ‘Tony G’ Guoga and David Benyamine, Phil Gordon and Howard Lederer, and Phil Ivey and Chris Ferguson.  The 2010 Doubles Poker Championship is airing on Versus.

Poker After Dark
On NBC, Poker After Dark Director’s Cut wraps up the previous week’s action, including comments from the winning player and the week’s contenders:  David Peat, Howard Lederer, Eli Elezra, Phil Laak, Greg Mueller, and Olivier Busquet.

Full Tilt Poker 2010 the Poker Lounge
The Poker Lounge features one Full Tilt Poker (FTP) qualifier battling against five FTP Pros.  The qualifier is staked for the $20K buy-in to compete in six handed, winner take all action.  The 2010 The FTP Pros include Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen.  The Poker Lounge airs on Versus. 

Full Tilt Poker 2010 Aussie Millions
Check out the 2010 Aussie Millions, hosted by the Crown Casino, Melbourne, Victoria
Australia, airing on Versus.  Twenty one events ran in the 2010 Aussie Millions.  Winning the Main Event of the Aussie Millions was Australian Tyron Krost, cashing for AUD $2,000,000 from the AUD $7,500,000.00 prize pool.

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