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DSPT Mohegan Sun National Championship – Day 1 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Mon, 2012-12-03 12:50
The DSPT’s Mohegan Sun National Championship got rolling the other day, seeing 242 players cough up the $2.5k buy-in. The first day of the re-entry event was quite an action-filled affair. After 10 levels of exhausting green felt tussles, the camp of the survivors still numbered 121. The player who managed to build the largest stack was David Stefanski. Stefanski’s Day 1 run was quite a spectacular effort indeed and his 348.1k stack, which was twice as big as that of the second place man, was clear testimony to it.
Stefanski had been hovering near the top of the pops for a while when a massive pot developed involving himself and Nesrine Kourdourli, who held a similarly massive stack. Stefanski was sitting in the cut-off and Kourdourli was on the button. In the beginning, there were two other players involved in the hand too, but they both got out of the way. In the end, it turned out that Stefanski had a flopped set, good enough to earn him the pot and the massive chip-up.
Several “name” players – many of them representing Team DeepStacks pro – made it through the first hurdle: Mike Matusow survived behind a pretty decent stack too. Chip Jett and Tristan Wade will join him on Day 2. While some players seemed to thrive, others saw no end to their struggles. Michael Mizrachi bought in no fewer than 3 times and he still busted out in the end. He may yet decide to re-buy at the beginning of the second day of action too, so the field may not yet be rid of him.
Unlike Mizrachi, Vanessa Selbst, who has quite a few Mohegan Sun achievements under her belt, made it to the second day of the
poker tournament.
