Panama for LAPT?

Author: Simon Dexter

Panama has been in the news recently – the ideal venue should you be planning to meet up with the missus following a prolonged canoe trip apparently – but the country most famous for its canal could soon become Latin America’s poker hotspot.

Panama, together with a clutch of other nations, is being considered as the possible starting location for next year’s proposed Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT).
Although no specific details have been confirmed, tournaments in eight Latin American countries, including Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica, with a season-ending “Tournament of Champions” event are close to being finalised.
Each tournament will be structured as an invitation-only event, with players from across the world able to win seats via online and satellite tournaments.

Michael Herron, chief executive of Vega, the company behind the project, has been impressed by poker’s growth in Latin and South America, a phenomenon which has added significant momentum to the LAPT idea.
“We’ve all seen the success that tours like the WPT and EPT have enjoyed and we feel that by utilising our existing contacts in Latin America, we can produce a first class tournament [in which] players from all over the world…will want to participate.”

Tags: EPT, LAPT, Online Poker, poker, WPT

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 at 2:00 pm and is filed under News & Promotions Blog.