NAPT-Mohegan Sun Draws Record Numbers Full Tilters among the field
The big tournament going on right now is the Mohegan Sun $5k main event … make the the NAPT-Mohegan Sun main event … make that the PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event.
To some extent, this was a proof-in-the-pudding tournament for the fledgling-but-promising North American Poker Tour. They pulled off a total hit a couple months ago in Las Vegas at the Venetian … but that was in Las Vegas, where most of the pros live and tourists love to travel to — this is Uncasville, Connecticut! But still … turned out Mohegan Sun has proved that NAPT events can indeed draw enough top-rank talent across the country for a $5k event worthy of televising on ESPN2.
Even Full Tilt showed up — and not just the red pros, but team pro, too, including Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan.
The event set Mohegan Sun records for both attendance and prizepool. They got 716 players … more than 100 of whom will chop up nearly $3.3 million … and top prize is a handsome $750k.
Follow the live updates and chip counts here.
Pauly’s there, too … holy fugk, the event even drew Tao coverage — surely it’s gonna stick!
Click below to see what really does look to be a great payout structure.
P.S. David Williams is winning.
1 $ 750,000 –
2 $ 428,000 –
3 $ 240,000 –
4 $ 190,000 –
5 $ 150,000 –
6 $ 115,000 –
7 $ 85,000 –
8 $ 60,244 –
9-10 $ 47,000 –
11-12 $ 38,000 –
13-14 $ 29,000 –
15-16 $ 23,000 –
17-24 $ 19,000 –
25-32 $ 16,000 –
33-40 $ 13,500 –
41-48 $ 11,500 –
49-56 $ 10,500 –
57-72 $ 9,500 –
73-88 $ 8,500 –
89-104 $ 7,500 –
McGoo says:
April 8th, 2010 at 1:34pm
Helllll yeah! They even have Ivey in there watching Tiger go puuurrrrrrrrrrrr! 🙂
DanM says:
April 8th, 2010 at 1:35pm
i was looking for Ivey but didn’t see him. Did he play too?
Andrew says:
April 8th, 2010 at 1:56pm
Still am hearing that FT will not have reps in the high roller. That said, I’m shocked that Ivey and Durrrr are here if they aren’t playing that other event.
Robert Goldfarb says:
April 8th, 2010 at 4:31pm
I have seen the future of poker and it’s name is NAPT.