2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event Day 4 | 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun

04-10-2010 11:18 UTC-12

Bax Dominated and Chops Again

Mickey Doft

Cliff Josephy raised to 100,000 from the cutoff and Derek Raymond called in the big blind.

The flop came down {8-Diamonds}

and Raymond checked. Josephy bet 125,000 and Raymond raised to 325,000. "JohnnyBax" went all in and Raymond called.

Josephy: {A-Spades}

Raymond:

The turn was a {5-Hearts}

and kept Raymond ahead, but the {9-Hearts}

river card made a queen high straight for both and chopped the pot.

Tags: Cliff Josephy Derek Raymond

04-10-2010 11:19 UTC-12

Dinner Break

[user140525]

The final 10 will be back at 8:30 EST after a 75-minute dinner break.

04-10-2010 11:49 UTC-12

What's a poker tournament without a little drama? A Category 5 hurricane blew through the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event on the final hand before the dinner break.

Things started off typically enough. Vanessa Selbst limped for 40,000 before the other remaining Vanessa, Vanessa Rousso, raised to 100,000. Selbst called.

The flop came ace-high with two hearts, {A-Hearts}

. Selbst checked and called a bet of 100,000, bringing the two women to a {10-Clubs}

turn. Selbst checked again, prompting Rousso to move all in for 525,000.

"God, that card gave me so many outs," said Selbst. Rousso, for her part, said she didn't care whether or not Selbst called.

"I'm getting 2-to-1 here, I think I'm supposed to call," continued Selbst. She and Rousso traded more banter.

The other remaining table had already finished the last hand. Players were racking chips in preparation for a color-up during the dinner break. Jonathan Aguiar and Scott Seiver were about to leave the table when Aguiar heard the table talk between the two Vanessas. He became livid.

"They're in a hand?" he asked incredulously. He was hopping mad that such talk was being allowed to go on, alleging that it was blatant collusion. Rousso was miffed and wanted to know what she'd done wrong; Selbst said nothing. Aguiar responded that they shouldn't be talking during the hand.

"You play poker for a living?" he shouted. "How do you not know that?" Seiver also got irate and backed up Aguiar.

"You know what?" said Selbst. "It doesn't matter." She folded her hand.

Rousso was unwilling to let the matter rest so easily. "I want to know what I did wrong," she said. A floor standing near the table told her that she wasn't allowed to talk unless play was heads-up. When Rousso responded that the hand was indeed heads-up, the floor said "No, heads-up in the tournament."

Rousso was dumbfounded and claimed never to have heard of such a thing. For his part, Aguiar had already blown out of the tournament room in a steam but Seiver was still racking up chips for the color-up. A second floor was summoned, who told Rousso that as long as she didn't reveal the contents of her hand, any table talk was allowed.

"Thank you!" said an indignant Rousso. She felt Aguiar and Seiver were completely out of line and were treating her "like s***". She said (and we're paraphrasing here) that she goes out of her way to be nice to people but that it happens at every tournament, that there is always someone who treats her very badly for no reason. She got right up in Seiver's face and started shouting at him.

"But where's the line?" Seiver responded. "Is it ok for you to say 'If you fold I'll give you 5% of my action?'" That only incensed Rousso further since none of that kind of talk was taking place at the table.

Rousso eventually stormed out of the room, leaving Seiver to rack the rest of his chips and complain that he wasn't sure how he could "always treat [Rousso] badly" since he'd "never met you before today."

Rousso returned to the ballroom twenty minutes later to speak with the floor staff. She wanted clarification that she and Selbst were within bounds. We'll watch her, Selbst, Seiver and Aguiar very carefully when they come back from dinner to see if anything further is said.

04-10-2010 11:59 UTC-12

Chip Counts at the Dinner Break

donpeters

Vanessa Selbst - 6,680,000
Scott Seiver - 2,654,000
Michael Woods - 2,380,000
Mike Beasley - 1,700,000
Alistar Melville - 1,680,000
Cliff Josephy - 1,600,000
Jonathan Aguiar - 1,595,000
Derek Raymond - 1,500,000
Brandon Hall - 1,100,000
Vanessa Rousso - 1,005,000

Level: 26

Blinds: 25,000/50,000

Ante: 5,000

04-10-2010 12:37 UTC-12

Play Resumes

Mickey Doft

The players have returned from dinner and the cards are back in the air.

04-10-2010 12:46 UTC-12

Drama Bomb Update!

[user75032]

When the players came back from dinner, Vanessa Rousso and Scott Seiver had a quiet conversation for a few minutes. We couldn't hear all that was said but it appeared that Seiver apologized to Rousso for his part in the outburst that occurred during the last hand before dinner. Rousso seemed pleased with the result of the conversation by the time she took her seat for the start of Level 26.

04-10-2010 12:51 UTC-12

Big Four-Bet Shove from Raymond

donpeters

From middle position, Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy raised to 125,000. Scott Seiver three-bet to 300,000 from the small blind. In the big blind was Derek Raymond and he tanked for a couple minutes. The decision he came to was to move all in for 1.625 million. Josephy folded and then Seiver folded as well, but not after mumbling to himself for about 30 seconds.

Tags: "JohnnyBax"Cliff Josephy Derek Raymond Scott Seiver

04-10-2010 12:54 UTC-12

Melville Hooks a Whale of a Pot

[user140525]

Alistar Melville raised to 150,000 preflop, and Vanessa Selbst called. The flop came out {J-Hearts}

, and Melville bet 150,000. Selbst bumped it to 425,000. Then Melville announced he was all in for another 1.125 million. Selbst thought for a minute, and tossed out enough traffic-cone-orange T100,000 chips to cover him.

He flipped over {J-Spades}

for top set. "Wow," Selbst said, showing {A-Hearts}

for a gutshot. The {9-Spades}

on the turn gave her an open-ender, but the {6-Diamonds}

on the river instead filled Capt. Ahab's boat. Melville doubled to a little over 3 million. Selbst fell to 5 million, but she's still comfortably in the lead.

Tags: alistar melville Vanessa Selbst

04-10-2010 12:57 UTC-12

Selbst Gets Some Back

Mickey Doft

Alistar Melville called in the small blind and Vanessa Selbst raised to 150,000 in the big blind.

Melville called and the flop came {4-Diamonds}

. Both checked and the {K-Diamonds}

hit the turn. Melville checked and Selbst made it 220,000 to play. Melville called and checked when the {A-Spades}

landed on the river. Selbst bet 675,000 and Melville insta-folded, surrendering the pot to Selbst.

Selbst is at 5.4 million while Melville is just under 3 million.

Tags: Alistar Melville Vanessa Selbst