Las Vegas professional poker player Joe Tehan won the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) $5,000 buy-in No Limit Holdem Main Event last night, eliminating the final 7 opponents for a 1st place prize of $725,000. Joe Tehan is an experienced professional poker tournament player with more than $2.2 million in live winnings on the major tournament circuits.  His previous claim to fame wasRead Full Article

With a lower than expected turnout for the PokerStars North American Poker Tour High-Roller Bounty Shootout the structure was changed to a 6-max event; with 5 tables of 6 players and a single table of 5 players. Looking for a turnout in the high 70’s to low 80’s, tournament officials will likely be unimpressed with the 35 players that registered for the event –OneRead Full Article

With three days of play in the books at the North American Poker Tour stop at Mohegan Sun, PokerStars pro and Deuces Cracked instructor Vanessa Selbst leads the remaining 24 players with 2.285 million chips. Selbst has been in the top 3 chip counts at the conclusion of each day thus far. The top 10 is full of big name players, including Scott SeiverRead Full Article

The North American Poker Tour event at Mohegan Sun began with 716 players on Day 1 and by the end of the first day of play only 443 players remained; of those 443 players only 125 will return for Day 3 of the tournament. Among those 125 players are a slew of poker pros including chip-leader Jordan Morgan

Prior to the tournament PokerStars was hoping for about 600 entrants for the North American Poker Tour Main Event being held at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. With 60 tables setup in the main ballroom they were prepared to easily handle 600 players, but as registrations kept coming, tournament officials did a great job of creating a second area in the main pokerRead Full Article

The North American Poker Tour is on its way to Connecticut, and it will be Mohegan Sun (the other casino in the Connecticut woods) and not Foxwoods that will be hosting the festivities. The NAPT tournament kicks off on March 27th with a $550 “Deep-Stacks” tournament, and will conclude on April 13th. Among the tournaments will be the $5,000 Main Event, a $25,000 High-RollerRead Full Article

Poker News Daily has confirmed that Amanda Leatherman and the WPT have parted ways. Amanda has done an excellent job acting as the hostess of the show, and has interviewed just about every professional poker player at some point. Leatherman has been the hostess since season 7, taking over the interviewing and special segment role made famous by Shana Hiatt: Other WPT hostesses haveRead Full Article

PokerStars has announced that the inaugural North American Poker Tour event, taking place at the Venetian in Las Vegas, will conclude with a $25k buy-in High-Roller tournament with a twist; certain pro players will have a $5,000 bounty on their head, and the player collecting the most bounties will receive an additional $100k from PokerStars! Another unique feature of the tournament will be theRead Full Article

The rumored deal between PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) and ESPN started on Daniel Negreanu’s poker blog, and Cardplayer Magazine was able to find a second, unnamed, source to confirm the story: Although both PokerStars and ESPN refused to comment on the story. On his blog Negreanu wrote the following: “The NAPT will be added to the ESPN roster and we have someRead Full Article

PokerStars has turned into the master of the regional poker tour: Already sponsoring the Latin American Poker Tour, The European Poker Tour, and the Asian Pacific Poker Tour, the #1 online poker site has now announced the launch of the North American Poker Tour. The initial schedule has just three stops –one being the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) that is a stop on allRead Full Article