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Win Your NAPT Mohegan Sun Seat Now at PokerStars
Опубликовал | КомментарииThe biggest poker room in the world, PokerStars, is a proud sponsor of the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour, which is proving to be a huge hit in its first season!The NAPT Venetian Main Event wrapped up on February 24th after 872 players paid $5,000 to do battle for the massive $4,017,740 prize pool.
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Scott Seiver Recaps Recent NAPT, L.A. Poker Classic Success
Опубликовал | КомментарииPoker pro Scott Seiver has been on the run of a lifetime. The young gun finished fourth in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) High-Roller Bounty Shootout last month for $215,000 and won the L.A. Poker Classic High-Roller event for another $425,000. In December, Seiver took down a $5,000 No Limit Hold’em event during the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $218,000.
Poker News Daily: Tell us about your recent run in which you’ve logged nearly $1 million in tournament cashes in just three months.
Scott Seiver: I feel I’m playing well right now. Obviously, some of it is getting lucky, but the tournaments’ deep stacks have been helping me. I’ve been playing well recently and it feels good.
PND: Talk about your single-handed destruction of your NAPT Bounty table, where you knocked out all six of your opponents.
Scott Seiver: It was a really interesting tournament because it was a bounty tournament. Some of the players might not have adjusted to that. I just tried to play in a way here I could get all-in to get bounties, which is I think the way to play because that’s where the money is.
PND: Some poker players would argue that you should pay less attention to the bounties and more attention to the prize pool. You feel differently, then?
Scott Seiver: I think it’s not even close. The bounties are a huge part of those tournaments. Any time you get all-in, a huge amount of money is at stake. As long as you can get all-in even with a coin flip, it’s a good idea. All seven players at the NAPT Bounty table were top-level players, so there’s even more reason to be aggressive. You can’t wait to outplay guys like Elky and Barry Greenstein.
PND: How did the field of the NAPT High-Roller compare to the L.A. Poker Classic High-Roller?
Scott Seiver: The L.A. Poker Classic might have been tougher. I happened to have the toughest table for the NAPT, but all around the room, there were sponsored pros. When you’re doing well and playing well, you actually play better. I was feeling good from the NAPT going into L.A. and I think that helped me.
PND: Tell us about your upcoming tournament schedule.
Scott Seiver: I’m at the Wynn right now playing a $1,000 tournament. What I always say is that if you’re doing poorly, you don’t want to see a single card. When you’re doing well, you want to play everything you possibly can. I might play some Circuit Events and might go to Indiana for the WPT. I just want to play right now. I’ve been really enjoying it.
PND: This month, you made your first appearance on ESPN’s list of the top 10 players in the world, dubbed “The Nuts.” How big is that for you?
Scott Seiver: I think it’s wild and it feels great. It’s wild to see your name in print like that and it’s a big publication that I can tell my parents to look at. While I was playing at Bay 101, a friend of mine pulled it up and showed me. Daniel Alaei, who is also on that list and was at my table, hadn’t seen it either.
PND: Two other extremely hot players right now are Jason Mercier and Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, who you faced at the L.A. Poker Classic High-Roller and NAPT High-Roller Bounty Shootout final tables, respectively. Talk about their games.
Scott Seiver: They’re both on incredible hot streaks and winning every tournament they’re playing. I had one final table with Jason Mercier before and he didn’t have many chips in L.A., but he played well. Faraz is very good and a very strong player. He’s very aggressive, but not just wildly aggressive. He knows when and who to attack.
PND: How have you been able to evolve your game in the last two years since your World Series of Poker bracelet run in 2008?
Scott Seiver: It’s been by playing a lot. I play a lot online – tournaments and cash games – and also live tournaments and cash games. I play big stack games and short stack games. I’m learning through experience and have a great group of friends to talk to. Practice makes perfect and I try to absorb what I can.
PND: Which fellow pros to you talk to?
Scott Seiver: A bunch of different people like Isaac Haxton, Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo, Aaron Been, and all sorts of other friends. We usually just talk theory and whatnot.
NAPT Venetian – Main Event: Tom Marchese takes down the first prize of $827,648
Опубликовал | КомментарииIt came to be these 8 (2 PokerStars qualifiers) relatively unknown players who made it to the final table in the NAPT Venetian Main Event. Sam Stein, Thomas Fuller, David Paredes, Yunus Jamal, Tom Machese, Eric Blair, Daniel Clemente and John Cernuto.
Anyhow, the 2 players that dominated the final table and made it to heads-up were Sam Stein and Tom Marchese. Sam Stein took the command almost straight away, and because he had won almost every single pot in the 3 past days, no one thought that[...]
NAPT Venetian Main Event – Final Table Summary
Опубликовал | КомментарииAs promised, here is a follow up article to the one I wrote last week about the first ever NAPT tournament, the Venetian Main Event. Given that this was the first PokerStars sponsored event in the U.S.A., it comes as no surprise that the final table was comprised of a few very talented online players.
This first NAPT event came to a finish just a few days ago. The $5k buy-in tournament wrapped up with eight players at the final table including two online tournaments pros, two online cash game pros, and a three time WSOP bracelet winner in “Miami” John Cernuto.
Sam “KingKobeMVP” Stein and Eric “ericb09” Blair led the way for the online tournaments pros, while David “dlpnyc21” Paredes and Tom “kingsofcards” Marchese represented the online cash pros. Sam Stein came into the final table with the chip lead, bringing in over 100 big blinds.
Stein continued his winning ways, outracing Blair’s pocket sevens with ace king to eliminate him in 8th. He followed that up by outrunning Cernuto’s ace five suited with jack ten suited, bringing the final table down to six. Even David Paredes’s pocket aces couldn’t hold versus Stein’s pocket jacks, as Stein flopped a jack to take Paredes out in fifth.
Stein had over half the chips in play with four left, but Yunus Jamal and Daniel Clemente were sent packing in a quick fashion by Tom Marchese, leaving Stein with approximately 16.4 million in chips, and Marchese with 9.5 million in chips going into heads-up play. Heads-up started with the blinds at 100k/200k 20000 ante.
Stein’s chip lead evaporated rather quickly at this point, and heads-up didn’t last long at all. Stein became well known during the tournament as someone who wasn’t a fan of folding as he rarely folding flops and he was willing to make thin calls. Those calls cost him as he doubled Marchese into the chip lead and subsequently lost the tournament, calling Marchese down with 2nd pair in the final hand when Marchese had top set.
See below for the handsome final table payouts. It’s safe to say that the first NAPT event was a great success at the Venetian, and we look forward to many more PokerStars sponsored events in North America.
1st: Tom Marchese – $827,648
2nd: Sam Stein – $522,306
3rd: Daniel Clemente – $309,366
4th: Yunus Jamal – $241,064
5th: David Paredes – $184,816
6th: Thomas Fuller – $144,639
7th: John Cernuto – $104,461
8th: Eric Blair – $60,266
Tom Marchese wins PokerStars NAPT Venetian Main Event
Опубликовал | КомментарииThey say you’re getting old when policemen start looking young. The same could be said about poker players and Bluff Europe is feeling quite aged this morning after a pair of young whippersnappers with a combined age of 43 took the top two places at the NAPT Main Event for almost $1.4m.
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PokerStars.Net NAPT to Air on ESPN2 in April
Опубликовал | КомментарииWhen PokerStars announced the formation of the North American Poker Tour in January, it was during the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and camera crews were on site to film some of the tournament happenings.
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Ashton Griffin Wins NAPT Venetian High-Roller Bounty Shootout
Опубликовал | КомментарииPoker pro Ashton Griffin edged out DoylesRoom personality Hoyt Corkins heads-up to win the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) High-Roller Bounty Shootout at the Venetian. The $25,000 buy-in tournament awarded a top prize of $460,000.
The final table was stacked with a mix of veterans and young guns of the industry, with one former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, Peter Eastgate, who became the youngest winner ever of the $10,000 buy-in tournament in 2008 at the tender age of 22. Joe Cada would shatter Eastgate’s record one year later. Eastgate was the first casualty of the seven-handed High-Roller Bounty Shootout final table after pushing pre-flop with pocket eights and running into Scott Seiver’s pocket jacks. Eastgate could not catch up, but he collected $75,000 for reaching the final table plus a $5,000 bounty for any player knocked out along the way.
The next to go was Brett Richey, who first doubled up with A-K against A-8. On the following hand, he looked down at A-Q and pushed again. Griffin made the call and showed K-Q of clubs, giving Richey a commanding lead pre-flop and a tantalizing opportunity for another double up. The board read 4-4-4-7, setting Richey up for success, but a king on the river gave Griffin the win.
Young gun Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, who earned his online moniker after playing an inordinate number of suited cards as a beginner in poker, pushed all-in from the small blind with Q-10 and was up against Seiver’s A-J of clubs. The flop gave Seiver top pair and a flush draw to boot; Seiver won the pot with a boat. Jaka landed in fifth place in the made-for-television tournament.
Seiver then pushed with Q-10 and ran into Corkins’s A-K. Corkins turned two pair to seal the win in the hand and Seiver, a WSOP bracelet winner, was eliminated from contention. Corkins had doubled through Seiver just prior to the latter’s final hand with pocket jacks against Seiver’s wired pair of fives. Corkins turned a set to send Seiver’s chip stack plummeting.
Joe Cassidy was eliminated from the NAPT Venetian High-Roller Bounty Shootout after moving all-in from the small blind with A-2 of diamonds. Griffin, sitting in the big blind, woke up with A-9 and made the call. A nine came on the flop and Cassidy was ousted. Entering heads-up play in Las Vegas, Griffin held a 2:1 chip lead over Corkins, who is fresh off a win in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Southern Poker Championship.
Two hands into heads-up play, a winner was determined. Corkins called all-in with 9-3 on a flop of 4-5-9. However, Griffin held 9-8, out-kicking Corkins and handing him the final table’s winner-take-all $460,000 grand prize. He cashed in a Pot Limit Omaha preliminary event during the 2009 WSOP Europe for £15,000. One year prior, Griffin landed in seventh in the Latin American Poker Tour’s (LAPT) San Jose, Costa Rica stop for $29,000.
All was not lost for Seiver, however, who collected a $100,000 bonus courtesy of PokerStars for knocking out the most number of players. Seiver single-handedly sent all six of his opponents at his first round table to the rails and two more at the finale for a total of eight.
Four hours of coverage on ESPN2 will be dedicated to the NAPT Venetian High-Roller Bounty Shootout and Main Event. The action kicks off on April 19th and will air according to the following schedule:
April 19th: Venetian $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout: 9:00pm to 11:00pm ET
April 26th: Venetian $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout: 9:00pm ET
April 26th: Venetian $5,000 Main Event: 10:00pm ET
Next up for the NAPT is a trip to Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. The $5,000 buy-in NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event kicks off on April 7th and runs through the 11th.
Ashman Wins NAPT $25k
Опубликовал | КомментарииPlaying under the handle Ashman103, he takes on the best in the world at the highest stakes almost nightly on Full Tilt.
While he has a history of going from boom to bust online, over the past year Griffin hasn’t just been staying in the game, he’s been winning.
So when 49 of the top names in the game got together for the PokerStars.net NAPT $25k Bounty Shootout in Las Vegas over the past few days, it’s to no one’s surprise that winning continued.
The event began at the Venetian Hotel and Casino Wednesday with seven seven-handed heats. In addition to collecting $75k and a $5,000 bounty for every player they knocked out, the winners of each heat went on to Friday’s final.
Scott Seiver busted every player in his preliminary heat and started out the final table with a bang, doubling through Peter Eastgate with aces and sending the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event champ to the rail seventh soon after.
Griffin actually spent the day off before playing high stake online and came into the final without benefit of a night’s sleep.
He was seen taking power naps on the break, but had no trouble waking up to get in to the bounty collecting business when he called a Brett Richey shove with king-queen, three-outing Richey’s ace-queen with a king on the river.
Faraz Jaka was sent to the rail next, running queen-ten into Seiver’s ace-jack and with another $5k bounty collected, Seiver guaranteed himself at least a chop of the $100k put up by PokerStars for the event’s top bounty hunter.
Seiver was actually the next player out when Hoyt Corkins doubled through him with jacks over fives, then eliminated him with ace-king over queen-ten.
But when Griffin sent Joe Cassidy home with a dominating ace-nine over ace-deuce after three-hours three-handed, Seiver locked up the $100k.
Cassidy’s exit also sent Griffin and Corkins into a heads-up match that would last just a few brief moments.
On just the second hand the two got it in on a nine-high flop holding top pair. Griffin had Corkins outkicked, it played and the title was his.
In addition to a $455,000 first-place-prize, Griffin grabbed $75,000 for winning his first table and $30,000 in bounties for a total win of $560k.
Ashton Griffin wins NAPT Venetian $25k High Roller
Опубликовал | КомментарииThe PokerStars North American Poker Tour’s event at the Venetian cardroom, Las Vegas, was a roaring success all-round; highlighted by the presence of an incredible $25,000 buy-in, high roller bounty shootout event.
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NAPT: Ashton Griffin Prevails at Shootout Final Table
Опубликовал | КомментарииThe final day of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian stop proved to be a marathon affair for the seven players seated at the final table of the High Roller Bounty Shootout event. Thankfully, they get a day’s rest between round one of play and the final table, but the nearly twelve-hour long [...]
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