American cash game player Josh Kay has won the inaugural Latin American Poker Tour Bahamas Main Event after defeating the German star Martin Finger, in heads-up action, as part of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
Not only does he have $367,928 reasons to smile, but he also knows that he waded through a field of exceptional players to earn all those dollars.
Kay is the winner of the inaugural Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) $3,000 Main Event, in the Bahamas – held in conjunction with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) – and what a victory it was.
The Michigan native is ostensibly a cash game player, demonstrated by the fact that his winning paycheck contains the same sort of numbers that his entire Hendon Mob CV has chalked up over the past six years.
On the final day of action 11-players remained from a field containing 736 entrants, and that included two former PCA Main Event champions in Galen Hall and Dimitar Danchev. Hall would fall short of the final table, and Danchev would end his run in sixth.
Even with Hall falling before the final table, it was brimming with talent. The aforementioned Danchev was present, as were Global Poker Masters (GPM) participants Martin Finger and Mustapha Kanit. World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Taylor Paur was also present.
Finger, in particular, would have been one player Kay would have liked to have seen fall early, but as one would expect, the German star battled his way through to become Kay’s biggest problem, and in fact started the heads-up phase with a 2:1 chip lead, before Kay found the right combination of skill and luck to be the only one holding a trophy aloft at the end of a long and exhausting day.
LAPT Bahamas Final Table Results
1st Josh Kay – $367,928
2nd. Martin Finger – $223,900
3rd. Stefan Jedlicka – $158,740
4th. Jose Carlos Garcia – $119,820
5th. Taylor Paur – $94,920
6th. Dimitar Danchev – $71,780
7th. Jonathan Borenstein – $51,540
8th. Mustapha Kanit – $35,200
