2010 NAPT Venetian Main Event
Day 1 Completed
2010 NAPT Venetian
2010 NAPT Venetian Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 NAPT Venetian
Buy-in
$4,750
Entries
872
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
One Day Down
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Every table in the Venetian poker room was in use. Another forty tables were set up in front of and around the side of the poker room. They were filled with a rogue's gallery of the biggest names in North American tournament poker.
Many of those players didn't see the clock reach triple zero at the end of Level 8. None of Justin Bonomo, Chau Giang, Hevad Khan, David Benyamine, Phil Hellmuth, and the theoretically-retired Shaun Deeb will be returning for Day 2 tomorrow.
Yet more than half the field will return. At the end of the day the tournament clock showed 510 remaining players; we expect that number to be slightly smaller once the bags are counted and last-minute eliminations are verified.
There are plenty of notables still in the hunt. WSOP Main Event champions Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Joe Cada and Chris Moneymaker are all still alive. Moneymaker, in fact, is one of three players who finished the night with chip stacks of more than 200,000. He was joined in that feat by Andy Seth and Mark Ketteringham. Any one of those players should wake up tomorrow morning to find out that he is the chip leader to start Day 2.
And what of Day 2? It will start at noon tomorrow, right back here in the Venetian. The schedule calls for playing six 75-minute levels or until 56 remain. As long as there's no change, bet on six 75-minute levels to pare the field down to a shade more than 200 players.
Of course, PokerNews will be right back on the tournament floor to bring you all of the Day 2 action. Until then, you can find us at the bar.
Vanessa Gets Aggressive
Flop:
Her opponent fired out 14,000. Rousso sat still for a moment, asked the guy to count down his stack, and checked her hole cards one last time before moving all in for around 120,000. He let out a long-suffering sigh, moped for a few seconds, and tossed his cards into the muck.
Speaking of Counting Chips...
Player 1:
Player 2:
Player 3:
The board rolled out
, giving Player 3 a set of jacks. Player 1 collected his belongings and left the tournament area.However, when the stacks were counted down, it turned out that Player 3 was the shortest of the three stacks. He won the main pot, but a side pot of 11,000 was created between Players 1 and 2. The jack on the turn gave the now-departed Player 1 a pair of jacks to win the side pot.
11,000 chips are now being blinded and anted off, one hand at a time.
To the Top!
Not Quite Survivors
Maria Ho
Brent Hanks
Jon Friedberg
Gavin Griffin
Thayer Rasmussen
Passing It Around
One of the four of them raises every hand and everyone insta-mucks as if they've already clicked the "fold" box. And on to the next hand. Occasionally one of the other players at the table works up the courage to raise, and the guys take turns three-betting to make sure no one gets carried away. This is their table. Don't even bother.
The Final Push
"Anyone over 200 yet?" he inquired. We haven't seen any 200,000-chip stacks yet but with a half hour to go it's time for the final push. The shortest of the short will be looking to double up or go home while the big stacks will be looking to punish the passivity of the players who want to just coast into Day 2 from here.
Phillips Over the Century Mark
The two players took a flop of
and the cutoff checked. Phillips stayed on the gas with a bet of 7,800. His opponent made the call.The turn card was the
and again, the cutoff seat tapped the table, moving the action to Phillips. The former EPT Barcelona winner fired 17,100 and this time, his opponent folded, letting Phillips scoop the pot.Phillips is up to about 110,000 chips.
Tough Sledding for a Champ
only to see his lone opponent move all in for 28,500 total. Hachem thought, and thought, and thought some more. It was a solid two or three minutes in the tank before Hachem reluctantly surrendered his hand.Hachem's holding on at around 25,000 but hasn't been able to get much going so far.