2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun

2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event
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Event Info

2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
10♥8♠
Prize
$750,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$4,700
Entries
716
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

Table Break Drama Continues

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The already-eliminated Will the Thrill stirs things up at Gavin Smith's table before it broke.
The already-eliminated Will the Thrill stirs things up at Gavin Smith's table before it broke.
We mentioned earlier that many of the players seated in the poker room are unhappy because all of those tables are full of people who registered last night and this morning or who won super satellites yesterday. That means none of them are online qualifiers and many of them are part of the fashionably late, high roller crowd. Once the always fashionable, always high-rolling Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler pointed out the disparity in table draws, the grumbling spread quickly.

Now a few tables there have been broken, but not in any discernible order. Some of the most vocal tables (though not Allen Kessler's) were among those broken quickly. The players left in the poker room started to complain after the table with Gavin Smith, David Williams, Shaun Deeb, and Lars Bonding was broken with no explanation. Vanessa Selbst asked Floor Supervisor Christopher Sevick how tables were being broken, and first he said that the break order was random. That's pretty unusual for a live tournament. Selbst expressed concern that players at really tough tables (basically every table in the poker room) could bribe tournament staff to be "randomly" chosen to break next.

Then Sevick changed his story to stay that rather than a random break order, there was no order at all and that he didn't know what was happening and was waiting for orders. "I don't have any information," Sevick said. "My hands are tied." You can imagine the reaction players had to this news.

Ten minutes later, there were still no clearer answers. PokerNews asked Sevick how he chose which tables should be the first three to break. He said that he was simply told by higher ups to break those table numbers and given no further information or explanation. We'll keep you posted if the double talk starts making sense.