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PokerStars NAPT – High Rollers Event: Ashton Griffin wins
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sat, 2010-02-27 16:22
The PokerStars sponsored NAPT’s Venetian stop came to a conclusion yesterday as the final table of the High Rollers Event wrapped up with Ashton Griffin taking down the title and the $560,000 first prize.
Concocted by PokerStars pros, the event featured a unique structure. 49 players started out at 7 different preliminary tables. Each table would yield one winner, one player who would make it to the final table of the
poker tournament. Each player would carry a bounty and each preliminary table winner would take home an additional $75k prize. Scott Seiver was the player who put in the most dominating performance during the preliminaries, eliminating all those at his table, collecting all the bounties and the winner’s special reward. To top it all off, at the end of the poker tournament, PokerStars would offer the best bounty hunter a $100k prize, and needless to say, Seiver had positioned himself excellently to pocket that chunk of cash too.
Peter Eastgate was the sole representative of Team PokerStars pro at the final table. His final table run wasn’t an auspicious one either. Seiver doubled up at his expense holding a pocket rockets, then returned a few hands later and finished the dirty job, bouncing Eastgate in 7th place.
Griffin then hit a 3-outer to send Brett Richey packing in 6th. Faraz Jaka tangled with Seiver next, but it all ended badly for him: he picked up $95,000 for his 5th place. That elimination pretty much secured Seiver the best bounty hunter title and the special
PokerStars prize, as the likelihood of another player overtaking him grew smaller by the hand.
Hoyt Corkins was one of two players who still had mathematical chances at tying Seiver, and it all seemed to come together nicely for the cowboy when he eliminated Seiver in 4th.
Griffin Sent Cassidy to the rail too after about 3 hours of grueling 3-handed play, that left him and Corkins heads-up for the top prize.
On only the second hand of hands-up action though, Griffin disposed of Corkins to win the event and to pocket the $560,000 prize, locking up the best Bounty Hunter title for Seiver in the process. The final hand of the tournament saw Griffin’s 9,8 prevail over Corkins’ 9,3, on account of the higher kicker.
