April 11th, 2009 by admin

The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour Mexico, a live tourney by online poker company Poker Stars was disrupted and halted and then got banned by local Nuevo Vallarta bureaucrats late last year. The company was required to reorganize the main event to ensure that it will be fairly concluded to the 89 players who are still in action.
The firm arranged an online free roll for the survivors for a play down to a final table of nine. As generous gestures to the players, $50,000 was added to the original prize pool by Poker Stars.
Rory Cox, 26 from San Francisco started the game with a significant chip lead. He dominated the final table facing off Alex Brenes, Helen Prager, Victor Ramdin, Bolivar Palacios, Pavel Naydenov, Martha Herrera, Steven Thompson and Leonardo Emperador across the felt.
Most of his opponents were eliminated, and so Cox went into the heads up with his fellow American Helen Pragger with a five to one chip lead. Talented and spirited Prager, doubled up twice to catch Cox and at one stage which actually take the chip lead. But the leading didn’t last long, after two hours Cox was declared as a winner. Cox pocketed $15,000 from his original $2,500 main event buy-in, while Prager took home $11,000 as a second place.