There’s a great story potentially brewing out on the last eight tables of the LAPT6 Brazil Main Event involving Team PokerStars Pro. Nacho Barbero still leads the tournament (rocking 775,000 at last check, halfway through the 3000-6000 level) but this time around we’re going to check in with the Number Two player.
If you followed the coverage of LAPT6 Chile, you may remember a post I wrote called Five stars on Brazil’s kit. It looked into the fortunes of five high-caliber Brazilian poker players. Affif Prado was one of the five, although he busted early out of that event.
Prado’s bona fides were established earlier this year at PCA10. He was the winner of this year’s “Mini Main Event” at the PCA, a $300 tournament that uses the exact same structure as the $10,000 Main Event. 216 players entered the Mini Main, with Prado topping them all for $16,000.
Today Prado is the Number Two man in the room. At last check, he had increased his count to 640,000, second only to Barbero. Prado, a big, young guy, is the type who watches everything at the table while headphones on his ears drown out the ambient noise. In that respect he reminds me quite a bit of Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari.
Prado’s been out of his seat several times in the last hour. He keeps peeking at Barbero’s table (diagonally behind his seat) and he’s also hit the rail a few times to chat with two friends. For the most part he’s been keeping a low profile at his own table.
I tried to catch him in a hand, but the best I could do in my limited time at the table was big blind defense. An early position player opened to 17,000. Prado defended his big blind and got a free card when both players checked a queen-high flop, Q♥ 6♥ J♣ . Prado check-called 18,000 on the J♥ turn. The 9♣ river went check, check. Prado opened up A♥ Jâ™ a bit sheepishly. There were a few quiet words, but as I’ve mentioned many times in the last three days, I don’t speak Portuguese. I couldn’t tell you what he said, but experience dictates it was a comment about missed value.
Prado hasn’t missed much value today. He started with 82,600 and now has almost eight times as much through just six-and-a-half levels of play. If he can keep up his stellar results for the last three hours of the night, he’ll be in a prime position to make a very deep run tomorrow.
Who knows? Maybe he’ll eclipse that “potentially great story” I mentioned up top and will write a great story of his own.
Dave Behr is a freelance contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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