Twenty-five year old poker professional Vanessa Selbst has come through a 716 strong field to win the North American Poker Tour’s Mohegan Sun Main Event, becoming the first female to land a PokerStars NAPT title.
It is rare in poker tournaments for a player to lead from start to finish, but Selbst did almost exactly that. Finishing the first day’s play second in chips, just 15,000 or so behind leader David Williams, she found herself still in the top three by the end of the second day and chip leader at the end of day three, a position which she didn’t relinquish until the final hand of day four and quickly regained on the final day.
The five day, $5,000 buy in event attracted some quality poker players, including Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, Jason Mercier and Greg Raymer and the final table was arguably the toughest final table of 2010 so far, featuring several World Series bracelet holders, but nobody was able to handle the relentless aggression of Selbst, who picked up $750,000 for her victory.
The fourth day required just six and a half blind levels to reduce the field from 125 to the last 24 players, illustrating the unrelenting aggression show by Selbst, as well as Scott Seiver, who turned a stack of just ten big blinds into 2.2 million to end the day a fraction behind Selbst at the top of the chip lead. Seiver’s incredible form in recent months continued and was he unlucky to be eliminated in fourth place ($190,000) when he got the money in ahead, holding 44 versus the A3 of Michael Woods, who spiked an ace.
Vanessa Selbst described the NAPT Mohegan Sun success as her greatest poker accomplishment to date, telling reporters “This is at the top” and adding “It feels awesome”. As a Connecticut resident, she had an army of supporters on hand to witness the victory, something which she clearly appreciated: “The most meaningful part of this for me was definitely having a lot of my friends that don’t play poker and a lot of my friends from law school see this”.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Selbst combines professional poker with law school at Yale, as well as coaching for DeucesCracked.com. She has cashed seven times at the World Series of Poker, including her one and only win, which came in 2008’s $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event. With $1,670,000 in poker tournament earnings to her name already, Selbst has shown herself to be a real talent and more success is sure to follow.
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