Twenty four years old, Valdemar Kwaysser, who is from Hungary, became the champion of the Poker Stars Latin American Poker Tour on 25^th May, 2008. He won 280,000 dollars home in the tournament which held in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Totally 398 players participated in the 2500 dollars buy-in cost event collecting 965,150 dollars pool of the cash which has to be distributed among the top 32 finishers of the event.

Kwaysser managed to play aggressively from the starting which also landed him in trouble at first.

Ashton Griffin was the player who got the things started with A-eight against the eight-four of Kwaysser. After that Kwaysser edged out Steven Silverman with a ten-five and given Silverman a pair of bad beats.

Kwaysser actually proved his worth by edging out Max Steinberg in the heads-up showdown by getting some very good cards of pair of red aces in the final cards hand.

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