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NAPT Mohegan Sun: Mercier follows Selbst to seal incredible double defense
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 B...more
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 championDuring 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...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 her first NAPT Mohegan Sun ...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 placePop 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 op...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun Final Table: Levels 24-26 updates (25,000-50,000-5,000)
4:15pm: Joe Tehan eliminatedOn the last hand before break, Joe Tehan got it all in with K♦6♠ and ran directly into Thomas Hoglund's 8♣8♦. The board was no help for Tehan and he went out in sixth place for $70,000. Hoglund ended that hand with 1,590,000. Joe Tehan eliminated from NAPT Mohegan...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun final table player profiles
The final table of NAPT Mohegan Sun is scheduled to begin at noon Wednesday April 13. Tyler Kenney, the 21-year-old from Long Beach NY leads the field. Two of the final eight, Vanessa Selbst and Joe Tehan, already have NAPT titles to their name. Check out the final table player profiles below for mo...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout B: Levels 5-10 updates (2,500-5,000-500)
Day done!And with that, day one of the $10,000 Bounty Shootout comes to a close. Just like Vanessa Selbst has a chance of pulling off an historic double in the Main Event tomorrow, her Team PokerStars Pro colleague Jason Mercier has the chance of going back-to-back in the Bounty Shootout after he wo...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun: Kenney looks to deny Selbst, Tehan second titles
Tyler Kenney couldn't play NAPT Mohegan Sun last year. At just 20 years old, he would've been kicked out the moment anyone looked at his drivers license. Now 21, he's woken up every morning, drank a Vitamin Water, and sat down to play poker with the singular focus of making the final table. It's ser...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout B: Levels 1-4 updates (400-800-100)
10pm: Level overLevel four is over. We now usher in level five.9.55pm: Small pairsDaniel Negreanu's bounty has been claimed. Joe Gibbons and the Team PokerStars Pro found themselves all-in preflop.Negreanu: 2♦2♠Gibbons: 6♦6♠The board, 5♥3♣J♣Q♠[10d], brought Negreanu no help and he wa...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout: Levels 5-10 (1,500-3,000-400)
5pm: End of flight AFlight A is now complete. There will be another five tables starting at 7pm as we look to fill that final.See the full results of this flight on the results page. -- HS4.50pm: Berg sunk by GuintherWe are done for flight A as Jimmie Guinther has finished off Elijah Berg. The final...more
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