NAPT Bounty Shootout
Day 1 Started
2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
NAPT Bounty Shootout
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
216
Level
9
Blinds
2,500 / 5,000
Ante
500
Bounty Shootout Time at High Noon
The Bounty Shootout tournament proved a popular format at the North American Poker Tour during Season One; as such, NAPT officials have decided to carry it over to Season Two by hosting a $5,000 + $250 buy-in event here at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The tournament will see 216 players seated at 36 tables, meaning they'll be playing six-handed, and each table will play down to a single winner. These winners will advance to Round Two tomorrow and repeat the process in order to reach a final table.
The Bounty Shootout will be the first of 2011 and follows on the heels of Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin's victory at the NAPT-L.A. shootout back in November.
Baldwin cleared a field of 81 players and a final table that included Tom Marchese, Pat Pezzin, Mohsin Charania, Michael Mizrachi, Kevin MaPhee, Justin Young, David Williams, and Clint Coffee to claim the first-place prize of $134,280.
Other Season One Bounty Shootout winners included Jason Mercier in the $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout at the NAPT Mohegan Sun and Ashton Griffin in the same event at the NAPT Venetian. A stacked field of professionals are expected to play in today's tournament in hopes of adding their name to the winner's list. Just a few of the pros who've been wandering around the Bounty Shootout area are Daniel Alaei, Peter Jetten, Chad Brown, Daniel Negreanu, Chino Rheem, Jeff Madsen, Amnon Filippi, Ronnie Bardah, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Jason Senti, and Adam Levy.
The cards will be in the air at 12:00 P.M. EST. Unfortunately we won't have a seat draw until after action begins, but we'll post it just as soon as we receive it from tournament officials.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
The Field
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A Few Matchups
Level 1
: 100/200, 25 ante
Since we don't have a table draw as of yet, we took a walk around the tournament floor and took note of some of the more notable table matchups.
Jason Mercier
Adam Levy
David "Doc" Sands
Joseph Cheong
Brandon Adams
Andrew Lichtenberger
Tom Marchese
Lee Markholt
David "ODB" Baker
Allen Kessler
Jason Somerville
Isaac Haxton
Amnon Filippi
Justin Bonomo
Pat Pezzin
Greg Raymer
Nick Binger
Daniel Negreanu
Al Grimes
Daniel Alaei
Peter Gould
Matt Affleck
Chad Brown
James Mackey
Anh Van Nguyen
Victor Ramdin
Darren Kennedy
Heather Sue Mercier
Michael Binger
Barry Greenstein
Scott Seiver
Randy Lew
Nikta Nikolatv
Thomas Fuller
Ronnie Bardah
Eric Froehlich
Darren Elias
There are still quite a few empty seats as players are still filtering in to the tournament area, so it wouldn't be surprising to see some of these table get even more stacked.
Baldwin Gets Aggressive in Big Blind
Level 1
: 100/200, 25 ante
Action folded to Andrew Pantling on the button and he raised to 525. Amit Makhija was is the small blind and made it 2,000 to go. Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin, who won the Bounty Shootout back in November at the NAPT-L.A., was in the big blind and cold four-bet to 5,525. Both Pantling and Makhija quickly folded and Baldwin added a few thousand to his stack.
Rounding out that particular table are Tim Begley, Matt Waxman, and Eric Wasserson.
A Grumpy Start
Level 1
: 100/200, 25 ante
This is one of the more unhappy tournament fields we've seen in a good while, if we're honest. For starters, the media in attendance are a bit peeved at the lack of a table draw now 20 minutes into the day. But the players seem to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed as well.
There was a long disturbance at Josh Arieh's table that involved a player whose name we don't know. Mr. Unknown apparently grabbed his big blind out of the pot as he faced a raise from Arieh (as if he were contemplating reraising), then mucked and put his chips back into the pot. Arieh was fuming mad, and he and Darryll Fish had a long conversation with the floorman. They argued that the player's angle was a ploy to get free information. As we walked away, Arieh was just finishing with, "I just hope it doesn't happen again. There's no reason to ever, ever grab money that's already in the pot."
At the adjacent table, there was a another floor call in progress as well. Amnon Filippi and Isaac Haxton were arguing that there weren't enough T25 green chips on each table to keep the action moving smoothly. The floorman said he'd make a note of the issue and take a look at it for future events, but Filippi pressed the issue. "How hard is it to grab some more chips and make some change? You're telling me that's going to interrupt the flow of the tournament?" The discussion went back and forth for about five minutes before the floorman surrendered.
He was last seen walking away from the table, head down, arms in the air.
Level: 2
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
The Shark is Hungry!
Level 2
: 150/300, 25 ante
The loudest pot of the day award goes to....
Humberto Brenes had been all in for about 5,500 with 
against the 
of his opponent. All the money went in preflop, and Brenes was drawing slim for his survival.
Until the flop, that is. The dealer spread out 
, and Brenes burst into one of his I-told-you-so celebrations as he flopped quads! Brenes is sporting a pair of PokerStars sneakers, and he promptly plopped both feet up on the table and threw his arms in the air above his head. The turn and river came 
and 
, and Brenes has doubled up loudly. He's back over 11,000 now.
Blom vs. Josephy
Level 2
: 150/300, 25 ante
There was about 9,100 in the pot and a board reading 
when Viktor "Isildur1" Blom checked from the cutoff to Cliff Josephy on the button. Josephy fired out a bet of 7,400 and Blom quickly mucked, dropping to 27,000 in the process. Josephy is up to 31,000.
Meanwhile, we've noticed a couple bounty chips changing hands: Pat Pezzin has eliminated Justin Bonomo and Pall Volpe was sent to the rail courtesy of Faraz Jaka.