LAPT Season 8 Round Up: Yuri Martins Wins Main Event; Oscar Alache Takes POY Honours

Yuri “theNERDguy” Martins has defeated 426 players en route to the Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final title, and Oscar Alache picks up the Player of the Year award.

Brazilians dominated the final table of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Grand Final in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Six of the last eight came from that part of the world, two were from Chile, and it was one of the most well-known Brazilian pros who walked away with the title.

Yuri “theNERDguy” Martins is one of the most successful online poker players in Brazil. The online tournament statisticians at PocketFives have Martins weighing in with over $5m earned since he started playing this beautiful game.

He won a World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) bracelet earlier this year when he won a $1,050 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) Hi/Lo event. The year prior he earned his largest score to date when finishing runner-up to Fedor “CrownUpGuy” Holz in 2014 WCOOP Main Event for $708,251.21.