2010 NAPT Venetian

2010 NAPT Venetian Main Event
Day: 2
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Event Info

2010 NAPT Venetian

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
10♥10♣
Prize
$827,648
Event Info
Buy-in
$4,750
Entries
872
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
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Mercier Avoids a Trap

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Jason Mercier
Jason Mercier
Jason Mercier is fearless and aggressive, but that doesn't mean he doesn't run into solid hands once in a while -- or even two at the same time.

After an early-position player limped into the pot, Mercier raised to 3,900. He was called by a late-position player and the early-position player for a three-way flop of {10-Hearts} {2-Clubs} {8-Diamonds}. Mercier must have sensed something was amiss; when action passed to him he checked. His two opponents wound up all in, one with {J-Hearts} {J-Diamonds} and the other with a set of tens, {10-Diamonds} {10-Clubs}. By that point, however, Mercier had already wisely folded his hand.

Tags: Jason Mercier

Baker Looks for Better Spot

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[user75032]
With a full night of sleep (presumably) under their belts, the players have come ready to mix things up. Sorel Mizzi and Amanda Baker were involved in an early pot on one of the far outer tables. With 9,800 chips in the pot, they took a ragged flop of {3-Spades} {9-Diamonds} {5-Hearts}. Mizzi had to act first and opted to lead for 4,500. Baker thought things over before calling.

Baker's call didn't scare Mizzi out of betting 12,000 on the {4-Hearts} turn. Either he was extremely strong or he thought Baker was weak. Either way his bet got a positive result: Baker folded her hand.

Tags: Amanda BakerSorel Mizzi

Hamilton Doubles Up

donpeters
donpeters
The reigning Ladies' Event champion from the WSOP is Lisa Hamilton and she just doubled up to about 50,000 after her pocket kings went up against an opponent's pocket eights. The money went in preflop and after a board of {10-Hearts}{10-Spades}{2-Clubs}{3-Spades}{9-Diamonds}, Hamilton earned the win.

Tags: Lisa Hamilton

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Day 2 Coming Up

donpeters
donpeters
Negreanu sits with an above-average stack coming into Day 2
Negreanu sits with an above-average stack coming into Day 2
Welcome back for Day 2 of the PokerStars.net NAPT Venetian. Yesterday, the event took the Venetian by storm with 872 players packing the room and taking to the felt. When the day was all said and done, 475 of them remained.

Topping the leaderboard is Andy "BKiCe" Seth with 245,600 in chips. Phillips Collins, Mark Ketteringham and Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker round out the list of names who bagged up over 200,000 chips. The average stack going into Day 2 is just over 55,000 chips.

Other members of Team PokerStars Pro joining Moneymaker on Day 2 are Barry Greenstein (40,700), Jason Mercier (41,000), Bill Chen (43,100), Tom McEvoy (50,900), Joe Cada (67,000), Daniel Negreanu (76,500), Victor Ramdin (16,900), Greg Raymer (144,100), Joe Hachem (35,600), Vanessa Rousso (144,900) and Dennis Phillips (16,400). Friend of PokerStars Orel Hershiser bagged up 84,000 chips and is also still in the mix.

The remaining players will kick off play at 12:00 p.m. local time here in Las Vegas. The schedule says we're going to be plying down to 54 players or finishing six levels, whichever comes first. It doesn't look like we're going to get anywhere near 54 players, so it looks like after six levels we'll be done.

Be sure to keep your browser right here at PokerNews for all the coverage from the NAPT Venetian. See you shortly.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

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