Main Event
Day 3 Started
2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Los Angeles
Main Event
Day: 3
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
Day 3 Table and Seat Draw
Table 1
Seat 1: Nicholas Grippo - 322500
Seat 2: Jimmie Guinther - 894000
Seat 3: Alan Myerson - 335000
Seat 4: Christopher Demaci - 247000
Seat 5: Tyler Hamade - 131000
Seat 6: Bahador Ahmadi - 148500
Seat 7: Zohair Karim - 96000
Seat 8: Travis Pearson - 835000
Table 2
Seat 1: Nicholas Verkaik - 495500
Seat 2: Thomas Young - 191000
Seat 3: Al Grimes - 288800
Seat 4: James Casement - 298500
Seat 5: Rep Porter - 316000
Seat 6: Ronaldo Bochi - 116000
Seat 7: Romik Vartzar - 146000
Seat 8: Aaron Lerner - 162500
Table 3
Seat 1: Michele Koerner - 32500
Seat 2: Thomas Marchese - 54000
Seat 3: Wayne Lewis - 96000
Seat 4: Blake Kelso - 138000
Seat 5: Niko Deininger - 172500
Seat 6: Isaac Crow - 76000
Seat 7: Sebastian Saffari - 126000
Seat 8: Christina Lindley - 76000
Table 4
Seat 1: Tyler Reiman - 125500
Seat 2: Prakai Satong - 55500
Seat 3: Jonathan Dull - 185000
Seat 4: Micah Raskin - 515500
Seat 5: --empty--
Seat 6: --empty--
Seat 7: Shane Schleger - 49000
Seat 8: Brian Zimcosky - 218500
Table 5
Seat 1: Mark De Faria - 153000
Seat 2: Bryn Kenney - 586000
Seat 3: Steve Stolzmann - 124000
Seat 4: Carl Beliveau - 188500
Seat 5: Ryan Welch - 448000
Seat 6: Tom Lee - 509000
Seat 7: Steven Karp - 219000
Seat 8: Paul Kuzmich - 435500
Table 6
Seat 1: Mike Leah - 280500
Seat 2: Lawrence Hyman - 146500
Seat 3: Derek Lerner - 276000
Seat 4: Carter Gill - 92500
Seat 5: Anthony Nardi - 181500
Seat 6: --empty--
Seat 7: --empty--
Seat 8: --empty--
Table 7
Seat 1: Jacob Toole - 424500
Seat 2: Cary Katz - 77000
Seat 3: Garrett Thompson - 252500
Seat 4: David Sesso - 331000
Seat 5: Mark Ader - 452500
Seat 6: Eric Haber - 246500
Seat 7: Peter DeBest - 74500
Seat 8: Jason Mercier - 158000
Table 8
Seat 1: Robert Acton - 252000
Seat 2: Alexander Fitzgerald - 119500
Seat 3: Christopher Klodnicki - 265000
Seat 4: Michael Binger - 474000
Seat 5: Gavin Griffin - 143500
Seat 6: Anh Van Nguyen - 614000
Seat 7: John Bunch - 68000
Seat 8: George Lind III - 407000
Table 9
Seat 1: Jonathan Gagnon-Villeneuve - 194000
Seat 2: Tomas Elexhauser - 421000
Seat 3: Jared Bleznick - 125000
Seat 4: Joe Ebanks - 75000
Seat 5: Tim Begley - 295000
Seat 6: Steven Goosen - 271000
Seat 7: Thomas Middleton - 519000
Seat 8: Carlos Watanabe - 233500
Table 10
Seat 1: Sameer Aljanedi - 67500
Seat 2: Joseph Melancon - 467500
Seat 3: Romulus Segal - 210000
Seat 4: Robert Reyna - 320500
Seat 5: Josh Brikis - 103500
Seat 6: Fabian Holling - 399500
Seat 7: --empty--
Seat 8: Matthew Affleck - 307500
Table 11
Seat 1: David John - 128000
Seat 2: Joe Tehan - 267500
Seat 3: Aaron Donovan - 149500
Seat 4: Larry Lipman - 281500
Seat 5: --empty--
Seat 6: Ray Henson - 349000
Seat 7: Phil Laak - 377000
Seat 8: James Sowers - 481000
Oh Can't You See, It is Time for Day 3!
Today, the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Los Angeles Main Event will continue as the final 81 players, of a 701-player field, return to action to play down to the top 24. Leading the way is Jimmie Guinther with 894,000 in chips, followed closely by Travis Pearson with 835,000.
Also returning for their shot at the last Season 1 NAPT title up for grabs are Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier, Anh Van Nguyen and George Lind. Nguyen has the most chips out of those three with 614,000. In addition, a number of other poker professionals have managed to survive including Phil "The Unabomber" Laak, Michael Binger, Bryn Kenney, Mike Sowers, Matt Afleck, and NAPT Venetian Main Event champion Tom Marchese.
Play resumes in a little less than an hour here at The Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California. PokerNews will be here to bring you all the latest hands, chip counts and eliminations, live from the Bike!
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 500
Early Eliminations
A few players have hit the rail here in the early goings of Day 3. Alex Fitzgerald was the first player to bust on the day. He was eliminated by Gavin Griffin. Shortly after him, Jared Bleznick and James Van Alstyne both made their way to the payout desk.
Begley Getting Chips Early
Tim Begley has been working on picking up some chips early on. Here are two hands that saw him climb to about 350,000.
On the first hand, action folded to Begley on the button and he raised to 12,000. Tom Middleton called from the big blind and the flop came down 
. Both players checked to see the 
fall on the turn. Middleton fired 16,000. Begley raised to 45,000 and Middleton folded.
Two hands later, Begley three-bet to 40,000 from the hijack seat after Tomas Elexhauser opened to 13,000 from under the gun. Everyone folded and Begley took this pot as well.
Schleger Out
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Shane Schleger got his short stack of less than 100,000 into the middle preflop with 
, and he ran his big ace right into Micah Raskin's 
.
The board ran out 
, and Schleger was unable to catch up to stave off elimination.
Bahador Doubles Through the Chip Leader
Chip leader Jimmie Guinther raised from middle position only to have Bahador Ahmadi move all in for about 95,000 from the small blind. Guinther made the call and the cards were turned over:
Guinther: 
Bahador:
Bahador was in good shape to double up and remained so as the flop fell 
. The 
on the turn left Guinther drawing dead and the was put out on the river for good measure. With that, Bahador doubled to 210,000 while Guinther took a hit down to 794,000.
Binger vs. Klodnicki
Chris Klodnicki was in the cutoff and raised to 13,500. Michael Binger was next to act on the button and he reraised to 40,000. Action folded back to Klodnicki who 4-bet to 80,000. Binger wasted little time in announcing that he was all in and Klodnicki quickly mucked. Binger then flashed the much to Klodnicki's dismay.
Binger is up to 540,000 while Klodnicki dropped to 200,000.
Laak Arrives
Fashionably late by about 15 minutes, Phil Laak has just taken his seat. "How many hands did I miss?" he wanted to know.
Laak had missed three hands, but that wasn't the most relevant issue. He sat down behind his stack and threw his chip bag on the floor, and the dealer asked him for his ID. Laak isn't carrying his ID with him today, and the table took the opportunity to needle him and insist that he not be allowed to play his chips without identifying himself. The dealer was forced to ask the floor, and the staff member traded a smirk with Laak as he gave him the okay to play.
It's smiles all around over there as the Unibomber has come to join the conversation.
Welcome to Day 3, Phil!