Vanessa Selbst Crushes Stacked Final Table
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Vanessa Selbst won the inaugural NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event for $750,000, outlasting 715 entrants and running over a stacked final table. Selbst won a WSOP bracelet in 2008 and had racked up nearly $1 million in previous live tournament cashes. Also a successful cash player and a respected DeucesCracked coach, Selbst left the tournament circuit last year to attend Yale Law School. The new PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour stop at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT was the perfect opportunity for Selbst to return to the felt and score a victory in front of a crowd of her supporters.
Throughout the tournament, Selbst, known as "fslexcduck" online, demonstrated just how dangerous it is when over-the-top aggression meets intelligence behind a big stack of chips. She crushed her opponents in most of the pots she played and held a giant chip lead for two days, only losing the top spot to Mike Beasley on the final hand of Day 4. At the final table, she quickly regained the lead and didn't relent until the tournament was hers. First, however, she had to best one of the toughest final tables of the year. The eight players who made the televised final table included Jonathan Aguiar and WSOP bracelet winners Scott Seiver, Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy, and Derek Raymond.
