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PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun – Vanessa Selbst wins
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2010-04-12 19:17
After 5 days of rabid poker action and after having survived an initial starting field of 715 players, Vanessa Selbst took down the top prize and the trophy awarded by the PokerStars NAPT’s Mohegan Sun event. Selbst is by no means a newcomer to the live poker scene. She has a WSOP bracelet and she’s amassed close to $1 million in live poker tournament winnings already.
She also plays online, under the name “fslexduck”.
Though she’d held the chip lead for two consecutive days in this event, she began the final table second in chips. In didn’t her long to collect the benefits of her ultra aggressive style though and to assume the chip leader’s position again. Despite the dominating performance she’d put in, it was by no means a walk in the park for Selbst to best a final table which included three other WSOP bracelet winners. Scott Seiver, Cliff Josephy and Derek Raymond were all set to improve their live tournament winnings records radically, and Jonathan Aguiar represented a force to be reckoned with too.
Aguiar was the first victim of the final table. He picked up an A,Qo and he decided it was a good enough starting hand for him to stake his tournament life on. Michael Woods made the call with pocket 10s and he proceeded to win the coin-flip to bounce Aguiar in 8th.
Josephy fell at Derek Raymond’s hands next, on a nearly identical coin-flip, his A,Qo succumbing to Raymond’s pocket 6s.
Raymond wouldn’t enjoy his newly gained chips for long though. He was bounced next, by none other than Vanessa Selbst.
Alistar Melville locked horns with Mike Beasley next, on yet another con-flip. Melville had pocket Qs against Beasley’s A,Qo but an A landed on the board to send him to the rail.
Scott Seiver dragged his short-stack along for quite a while, but eventually his bell tolled: his 4,4 succumbed to Mike Woods’ A,3o and he was eliminated in 4th place.
Mike Woods was the next player to hit the rail: his top pair and straight draw proved to be no match for Selbst’s flopped set of 8s.
The heads-up stage of the game lasted for only 7 hands. The final hand of the poker tournament saw Selbst’s A,8 go up against Beasley’s Q,10 and holding up for the win.
