The newest poker tour in North America is about to meet the world's most prestigious sports network for some primetime televised poker. Tonight at 10pm ET, ESPN2 will air the first episode highlighting the PokerStars North American Poker Tour's inaugural stop at The Venetian in Las Vegas. [Note: This blog post contains some spoilers, so if you're the kind of person who likes to go in fresh, you might want to click right out of here and go look at something else...like maybe a picture of Audrey Hepburn.] All safe? Good, let's continue. The NAPT event at The Venetian featured
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Main Event
NAPT Mohegan Sun: Day 3, level 21 updates (8,000-16,000, 2,000 ante)
10:58pm: Priest out With the elimination of William Priest (at the hands of Jonathan Aguiar) we are at 24 players and finished for the night. A full wrap-up and chip count coming. 10:39pm: Flop nuts, lose to quads Flopping the nuts is a cause for celebration. It rarely happens. If...more
NAPT Venetian: Tom Marchese captures first title on American soil
The arc of a poker tournament is usually hard to define. Chips move, leaders come, and leaders go. It is rare to see a story define itself as well as it did at the NAPT Venetian event. By the penultimate day, a leader had established himself, and the story became...more
NAPT Venetian: Day 5, Levels 30-32 (100,000-200,000-20,000)
11:57pm: Marchese wins NAPT Venetian ($827,648), Stein in second ($522,306) The last hand of the night started with a 4♣5♥9♦ flop, and the two put a few chips into the pot to see the 3♣ on the turn. Stein bet 1,825,000 chips, and Marchese calmly called. The T♠ dropped...more
$25,000 Bounty Shootout
NAPT Venetian: Ashton Griffin Defeats Hoyt Corkins to Claim $25K Bounty Shootout Victory
Some invitations are simply meant to be accepted. When the parents invite you for holiday dinner, you should probably accept. If your significant other invites you on a trip to a luxurious vacation destination, thinking twice might cause you some trouble. And when PokerStars.net invites you to play in the...more
NAPT Venetian: Levels 7-9 (4,000-8,000-1,000) $25,000 Bounty Shootout final table
1:30am: Ashton Griffin wins NAPT Venetian $25,000 Bounty Shootout It took just two hands of heads-up play to find our champion. Hoyt Corkins made it 18,000 to go and Griffin called. The flop came 4♠5♦9♠. Griffin led at it for 32,000. Corkins didn't hurry his decision and eventually raised...more
NAPT Venetian: Levels 4-6 (2,00-4,000-400) $25,000 Bounty Shootout final table
10:31pm: Color up As we move up a level, it's time to color off the black chips. We'll also be moving to a new post on the homepage. 10:13pm: Cassidy forces big laydown from Corkins On a flop of 9♠T♣T♥, Hoyt Corkins bets 4,500 and received a call from...more
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