Double double. Repeat repeat. Double double. Repeat repeat. If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I would never have believed it. But after Vanessa Selbst successfully defended her NAPT Mohegan Sun title yesterday, her Team PokerStars Pro colleague Jason Mercier has just defended his High Roller Bounty Shootout title too. According to mathematicians, that's a 30,000 to one shot. Yes, it's rigged. Obviously it's rigged. However for something stage-managed, this looked remarkably authentic. Mercier came to the final table with the most bounty chips, having eliminated six players...more
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Jason Mercier hoists the NAPT Bounty Shootout trophy aloft. Again.
NAPT Mohegan Sun: Mercier follows Selbst to seal incredible double defense
Season 2
NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout Final: Live updates (2,000-4,000-500)
8:50pm: Double-double! Jason Mercier repeats as NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout champion During the dinner break, several of us speculated as to the real, concrete, mathematical odds of not one, but TWO champions repeating here at Mohegan Sun. Whatever they were (help us, math people), Jason Mercier has defied them,...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun: All hail Vanessa Selbst, back-to-back NAPT champion
Vanessa Selbst has won NAPT Mohegan Sun. Vanessa Selbst has won NAPT Mohegan Sun. You read it twice because it has happened twice. Really, she has done it again. This time last year, the Team PokerStars Pro from Brooklyn, New York, bested a field of 716 to win $750,000 and...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun Final Table: Levels 27-30 updates (60,000-120,000-10,000)
10:31pm: Selbst secures second NAPT title, Dan Shak eliminated in second place Pop the champagne corks, poker fans--Vanessa Selbst has done it. Back-to-back NAPT Mohegan Sun titles. On the second hand after we returned from the break, Dan Shak limped in on the button and Vanessa Selbst checked her option....more
Season 1
NAPT Los Angeles Bounty Shootout: Baldwin beats best friend to win in marathon
What we commonly know as shootouts--in the Wild West or even in the 'Hood--are invariably speedy affairs. The quickest on the draw is usually the winner; he who hesitates is lost. But although poker has provided and borrowed many idioms from common parlance, a shootout in the card-playing sense is...more
NAPT Los Angeles Bounty Shootout: Levels 5-12 updates (5,000-10,000-1,000)
3:50am: Eric Baldwin wins the NAPT Los Angeles Bounty Shootout ($134,280), Justin Young eliminated in second place Justin Young opened for 24,000 on the button, and following a three-bet to 60,000 from Eric Baldwin, he tossed his own bounty chip into the pot, declaring himself all-in. Baldwin quickly called, having...more
NAPT Los Angeles Bounty Shootout: Levels 3&4 updates (600-1,200-200)
6:46pm: Break time The players are now on an hour-long dinner break. 6:43pm: Jaka-Jaka on the button The players have now chosen to put the Faraz Jaka bounty button in play. 6.30pm: Pat Pezzin out in seventh; Mohsin Charania claims bounty And just like that, another one is down. Mohsin...more
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