Main Event
Day 1b Started
2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Los Angeles
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Los Angeles
Buy-in
$4,750
Prize Pool
$3,229,857
Entries
701
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Welcome to Day 1b
The North American Poker Tour Los Angeles kicked off yesterday with Day 1a of the Main Event at the Bicycle Casino. The 328-player field surpassed expectations and saw some of poker's biggest names take their shot at NAPT glory. Today, Day 1b will begin and the field is expected to be even bigger, with rough estimates predicting close to 400 players!
Yesterday, Jason Mercier, William Reynolds, Justin Bonomo, Chris Klodnicki, Carter King, Alec Torelli, Gavin Griffin, Eric Baldwin, Justin “Boosted J” Smith, and Chad Brown all survived the day. However, it was Nick Grippo who finished in the top spot as the Day 1a chip leader with 235,100. The question is, will anyone from Day 1b be able to surpass Grippo?
We are about an hour away from the cards being in the air and already some big names have arrived. Daniel Negreanu and Brett Richey have already made appearances and are expected to be joined by the likes of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Jonathan Little, Darus Suharto, David Williams, Andre Akkari, Gualter Salles, and Jose "Nacho" Barbero, just to name a few.
Players will play through Level 9 and the survivors will return tomorrow, along with the remnants of the Day 1a field, for Day 2 action. However, before that can happen we have a lot of play before us. The tournament will begin in a little less than an hour so stay tuned to PokerNews for all the latest action, live from the Bike!
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Tough Tables
With all of the big name pros in today's field, it is not surprising to see some interesting table combination. PokerStars Team Pro (Canada) member Daniel Negreanu is seated at the same table as November Niner Jason Senti.
At another table, Dwyte Pilgrim is seated to the right of Mark Seif, who is seated to the right of Nick Binger. Now that is a tough stretch. However the toughest table in the room might be one row over and contains Faraz Jaka, Jose "Nacho" Barbero, Isaac Baron, and Maria Ho.
In a recent hand, Ho and Jaka faced off in a pot worth about 7,000 preflop. When the flop came down 
, Ho bet 2,600 and Jaka put her to the test with a raise to 5,900. Ho tanked for a bit before folding and dropping to 23,600. Jaka is off to a quick start with 38,000.
Tamayo Tamed
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Jonathan Tamayo is the short stack.
We picked up the pot on the turn as the board showed 
. Tamayo checked and let his opponent bet 2,500 before check-raising to 5,600. His opponent called, and the 
filled out the board. Tamayo, ever the deliberate actor, took his pause before stacking out a bet of 10,500. After a moment to make sure, the player made the call, and Tamayo tapped the table in acknowledgement that he was beat.
His opponent turned up 
, and that won him a nice early pot to knock Tamayo down under 11,000 here early.
Packed House
There are certainly many more players in the field today than yesterday's Day 1a field. The room is just about packed full while some late stragglers still roll in. Right now, the board reads 338 players and that's eight more than the 330 from yesterday. With late registration open for a little while, this thing should easily get 400 players.
Also of note is that any of the late registrants are being seated at the next open table. So if you sign up with a bunch of buddies, you'll most likely get placed at the same table with them. Jennifer Tilly and Phil Laak just missed being at the same table and are seated at adjacent ones. Michael Mizrachi, Anthony Rivera, Dale Philip and Tilly are all seated at the same table after all buying in at the same time.
Small One for Freddy
Action folded to the button and he put in a min-raise to 200. The small blind folded and action was on Freddy Deeb in the big. He smiled, looked at his opponent, and then said he was going to raise 1,000 more. The button smiled back and then made the call.
The flop came down 
and Deeb continuation bet 1,600 and the button simply folded. Deeb took down the small pot all the while smiling away.
Cernuto Chips Up With Flopped Set
"Miami" John Cernuto recently informed us about a hand that he became involved in. According to him, a player with pocket kings raised preflop and Cernuto flat called with pocket queens. Another player limped with 
and the big blind opted to raise to 1,400.
This time the pocket kings flatted and Cernuto put in a raise to 6,000. This cleared out the 9-10 and big blind players and resulted in the pocket kings just calling. The flop came down 
and Cernuto had flopped a set of queens. Action checked to him and he fired out 10,000 only to be reraised all in by the pocket kings. Cernuto called and the turn and river changed nothing. He took down the massive pot and is up to 56,000.
"If the 9-10 would have called, he would have busted me," Cernuto was quick to point out.
He May Need a Medic
There was about 18,000 in the pot with a board reading 
when Nenad Medic checked to his sole opponent on the button. The check resulted in a bet of 5,000 and action was back on Medic. He was clearly struggling on the decision and eventually shook his head and folded 
face up. It was a huge flop for Medic but in the end he concluded his hand wasn't good enough. He dropped down to 18,000.
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0