Double double. Repeat repeat. Double double. Repeat repeat. If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I would never have believed it. But after Vanessa Selbst successfully defended her NAPT Mohegan Sun title yesterday, her Team PokerStars Pro colleague Jason Mercier has just defended his High Roller Bounty Shootout title too. According to mathematicians, that's a 27,000 to one shot. Yes, it's rigged. Obviously it's rigged. However for something stage-managed, this looked remarkably authentic. Mercier came to the final table with the most bounty chips, having eliminated six players from his heat on Tuesday. Today, he won a
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Team PokerStars Pro Mercier follows Selbst to defend his Mohegan Sun title
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Team PokerStars Pro Mercier follows Selbst to defend his Mohegan Sun title
Double double. Repeat repeat. Double double. Repeat repeat. If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I would never have believed it. But after Vanessa Selbst successfully defended her NAPT Mohegan Sun title yesterday, her Team PokerStars Pro colleague Jason Mercier has just defended his High Roller Bounty...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout Final: Live updates (2,000-4,000-500)
8:50pm: Double-double! Jason Mercier repeats as NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout champion During the dinner break, several of us speculated as to the real, concrete, mathematical odds of not one, but TWO champions repeating here at Mohegan Sun. Whatever they were (help us, math people), Jason Mercier has defied...more
Vanessa Selbst wins back-to-back NAPT Mohegan Sun titles
Vanessa Selbst has won NAPT Mohegan Sun. Vanessa Selbst has won NAPT Mohegan Sun. You read it twice because it has happened twice. Really, she has done it again. This time last year, the Team PokerStars Pro from Brooklyn, New York, bested a field of 716 to win $750,000 and...more
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NAPT Los Angeles Bounty Shootout: Baldwin beats best friend to win in marathon
What we commonly know as shootouts--in the Wild West or even in the 'Hood--are invariably speedy affairs. The quickest on the draw is usually the winner; he who hesitates is lost. But although poker has provided and borrowed many idioms from common parlance, a shootout in the card-playing sense is...more
NAPT Los Angeles: Tehan runs the table for championship win
Some days a player just can't help but win. This was that day for Joe Tehan. If he took a coinflip, he won. If he got in behind against two players, he found the winning combination of cards. There was simply no stopping the man, and that's why he is...more
NAPT Los Angeles: Day 5 levels 25-27 live updates
5.35pm: Level over That's the end of level 27, and here are the latest counts: Joe Tehan - 11,105,000 Van Nguyen - 955,000 Al Grimes - 1,270,000 Ray Henson - 1,565,000 Chris DeMaci - 6,600,000 As you can see, Joe Tehan is the big boss. 5.30pm: Grimes grinding it out...more
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