The recently concluded PokerStars North American Poker Tour series held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut was a can’t miss event if you won a title there last year considering the two biggest tournaments of the series were won by the same players who triumphed in them last year! Team Poker Stars Pro Vanessa Selbst managed to repeat in the $5,000 buy-in MainRead Full Article

From Day 1 on it appeared Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst was on a collision course with destiny as she was amongst the chip-leaders throughout the 2011 NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event, and after making the final table she seemingly would not be denied her second NAPT title, having won the same event a year ago. After 7 Seasons and nearly 100 tournaments theRead Full Article

For the second straight year Vanessa Selbst has found her way to the final table of the PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun final table. The Team PokerStars Pro will enter the final table second in chips, trailing only Tyler Kenney as she continues her quest to repeat as the NAPT Mohegan Sun champion. Joining Selbst at the final table is another former NAPT winner –atRead Full Article

Vanessa Selbst has proven to be one of the top tournament poker players in the world over the past couple of years and despite a WSOP brace let in 2008, her coming out party was at last year’s inaugural PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event where the Yale Law student pocketed her first major title as well as her biggest score up to thatRead Full Article

Last year Vanessa Selbst won the inaugural PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event in April, and went on to have one of the best years on the tournament trail in recent memory, winning around $4 million total. Now Selbst is back where it all began, and after two days of play finds herself in the Top 10 at the 2011 NAPT Mohegan Sun MainRead Full Article

Although the PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event saw its attendance nearly cut in half from their Season 1 total of 719 players, amongst the 387 players that did make to the trip for the first official stop on Season 2 of the NAPT are some of the best poker players in the world, including last year’s winner Vanessa Selbst who ended the dayRead Full Article

The PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) came out of the gates in Season with massive fields, and looked to be on its way to establishing itself as the preeminent poker tour in the United States; until the start of Season 2 when the tour decided to remove its name from the Los Angeles stop after talks with the California Gaming Commission—the issue wasRead Full Article

The final table of the PCA Main Event featured two well established poker pros in Mike Sowers and Sam Stein, as well as the young chip-leader Chris Oliver –an online poker pro who went into the final day of play with 40% of the chips in play in his ship-stack. But lost in the shuffle was 24 year-old poker pro Galen Hall who wasRead Full Article

Since its inception the Bounty Shootout style tournaments held at virtually every stop of the PokerStars NAPT tournament series have been wildly popular amongst poker’s elite, and the $5,000 6-Max tournament held at the PCA was no exception as 216 poker players registered for the tournament. Day 1 of the tourney took place on Thursday and saw the field trimmed down to just 36Read Full Article

Now that the 2006 law making online poker a crime in Washington State has been upheld by the state’s courts, the Department of Justice has wasted little time in cracking down on payment processors who have sent checks and other payments to online poker players in Washington State. The news appeared in Forbes Magazine –a surprising hotbed of information regarding the federal government’s activityRead Full Article