glgl !

first time playing live poker since wsop, honest to god a cocktail waitress said i looked just like ben gazzara. twice.

Wave of the future, dude.

Finished day with 27k. Made a questionable value shove on river with top 2 on super fry board for 18k more after 13k river. Worst part is he took just long enough to call with his set that I thought I was pretty confident I was ahead

34k at end of day 1... Double or bust by first break so i can play the sunday mirrion and ftops main....

I said earlier that I had no complaints, but I guess I did have one.

When I play the Deep Stack series during the WSOP time, I totally put up with the tables being around the slot machines/smoking/loud people/sports book. The tournaments are cheap, and generally they move you inside the poker room fairly early if they can.

Today, we were out there all day, and we were even further away from the poker room. My table had no clock within visible distance, was quite smokey at times, and definitely had to deal with random drunk people yelling things from the bar next to the sportsbook. (Did you guys see John Wall?)

I'm not that big of a nit about these things, but am I totally wrong to think the Venetian doesn't have a room somewhere that could handle 80 tables? For a 5K, with almost a million to first, I'd think they could scrounge up some nicer digs. Maybe they don't have the room, or it becomes too expensive for Stars then, I dunno.

the players at my table forgot the rule about tapping the fish tank because they kept saying I was terrible and must have been an european online qualifier. lol my buddy was at the table and got a good laugh when I busted out at everyone laughing at my min raises preflop.

laid down KK preflop and must have a big tell, because I bet some rivers and got called by hands would seem impossible to call. was a fun time and looking forward to the LAPC Main event

lol must have been a few solid tables...my last one was min the master, masterblaster, sloppyklod, donkcommitted, browndog119, joe cada, shaun buchanons buddy, and some crazy dude from spain. 69.9k..where are the table drawssss?

I was just downstairs, and they have all the chip bags dumped on one table with a buncha floor guys standing around looking at them. I'd guess they aren't gonna be done with table draws soon.

yah right on zbthorton! my table couldn't hear each other one bit. **** the slots!!!!!

i'm the worst. busted like 100 bb's on the last 2 levels. Gl 2 you folks

Hi All,

Sorry I haven't seen the draw yet, but I am in Copenhagen for EPT. Here are the chip counts though. Good luck everyone!

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tourna...chipcount.html

Chipcount for NAPT VenetianDay 1r
Next : Level 9, blinds (500-1000-100)
872 entries, 510 remaining

Player Country Status Chip Count
Andy Seth 245600
Philip Collins 227900
Mark Ketteringham 211000
Chris Moneymaker USA Team PokerStars Pro 207300
Yongli Jin 160800
Steven Tabb USA PokerStars player 159800
Daniel Schreiber 157600
Jason Dewitt USA PokerStars player 154000
Mark Mierkalns Canada� PokerStars player 153000
Samuel Stein 151500
Patrick Carron USA PokerStars player 150700
Vanessa Rousso USA Team PokerStars Pro 144900
Greg Raymer USA Team PokerStars Pro 144100
Tom Bedell 144100
Adam Richardson 143600
Karga Holt 138500
William Van Ormer 136000
Scott Zakheim 129800
Paul Cukier 128900
Eric Levesque Canada� PokerStars player 128000
Darren Elias 127100
Michael De Gilio 123500
Danny Wong 123100
Robert Altman USA PokerStars player 121400
David Steicke 121100
Jared Davis Netherlands Antilles� PokerStars player 119900
Men Nguyen 118400
Andrew Robl 116400
Davidson Matthew 116000
Joseph Cutler 115200
Frank Calo 113900
Jimmy Fricke 112600
Daniel Fuhs 112300
Bill Kontaratos 112000
John Cernuto 111200
Zelong Dong USA PokerStars player 110100
Mclean Karr USA PokerStars player 109800
Cody Slaubaugh 108900
Chuck Kelley 108600
Tom Sinistaj USA PokerStars player 108500
Blair Hinkle 107700
Ian Kim 107100
Al Grimes 106600
David Miscikowski 104900
Randy Dorfman USA PokerStars player 104100
Brandon Terry 103700
Larry Beilfuss 102300
Benjamin Zamani USA PokerStars player 102000
Mark Salinaro USA PokerStars player 100400
Montel Williams 100300
David Anderson 100100
Neal Matthews 100100
Michael Blocksidge 99400
Kevin Schulz 98800
Carter Phillips 98600
Nam Le 98500
Klaus Pautrot 97700
Steve O'Dwyer 97200
Dwyte Pilgrim 96700
Nathaniel Wachtel USA PokerStars player 95900
Christopher Finn 93100
Matt Giannetti 92800
Julien Archambault Canada PokerStars player 91700
Tony Phan 91100
Jeremiah Degreef 90600
Daniel Alspach 89800
Scotty Nguyen 89400
Daniel Makowsky Switzerland� PokerStars player 89000
Larry Berg 88500
David Kopacz 87800
Stefan Hansen 87700
Kunal Patel USA PokerStars player 87400
Joanne Dorin 86800
Justin Rollo USA PokerStars player 86700
Hyun Moon Germany PokerStars player 86200
Fabrice Soulier France 0 85800
Daniel Sindelar USA PokerStars player 85000
Brandon Meyers 84900
Cary Katz 84500
Orel Hershiser USA Friend of PokerStars.net 84000
Anthony Zinno 83100
Joe Kuether USA PokerStars player 82800
James Mackey USA PokerStars player 82600
Joshua Fussner 82300
David Levi 82000
Max Katz 81900
Paul Niemela 81700
Christopher Wolters Canada PokerStars player 80100
Yevgeniy Timoshenko USA PokerStars player 79900
Jason Ramirez USA PokerStars player 79100
Francois Talbot Canada PokerStars player 79000
Amer Sulaiman 78900
Jon Turner 77900
Andy Lichtenberger 77800
Mark Flowers 77300
Frank Kassela 77300
Glenn Cozen 77000
Yong Chin USA PokerStars player 76800
Daniel Negreanu Canada Team PokerStars Pro 76500
Bryn Kenney USA PokerStars player 76500
David Peters 76300
Michael McNeil USA PokerStars player 76000
Dustin Woolf 75900
Lauren Kling USA PokerStars player 75900
Ty Netter USA PokerStars player 75800
Chris Bell 75700
Marco Traniello 75000
Daniele Nestola Germany� PokerStars player 74600
Tom Marchese 73600
Devin Porter 73500
Nathan Goldstein USA PokerStars player 73100
Ramon Cserei Romania PokerStars player 72500
Francisco Hernandez USA PokerStars player 72200
Robert McLaughlin 71900
Adam Levy 71900
Michael Geise USA PokerStars player 71000
Jeffrey Banghart USA PokerStars player 70900
Jonathan Tamayo USA PokerStars player 70600
Daniel Abromson 70300
Helen Martynov USA PokerStars player 70000
Daniel Cossette Canada PokerStars player 70000
Julian Parmann 69900
John Michalak USA PokerStars player 69900
Stewart Yancik 69900
Eddie Verceles USA PokerStars player 69800
Naim Tahan Netherlands� PokerStars player 69500
Igor Tiguy USA PokerStars player 69300
Matt Marafioti 69000
Jimmie James USA PokerStars player 69000
Jose Ceballos Spain� PokerStars player 68900
John Bunch 68600
Eric Blair 67900
Anselmo Villarreal 67700
Scott Hall 67700
Jonathan Aguiar USA PokerStars player 67600
Darren Grant 67200
Robert Lipkin USA PokerStars player 67000
Joe Cada USA Team PokerStars Pro 67000
Kevin Eyring USA PokerStars player 67000
Todd Mcdevitt USA PokerStars player 66800
Scott Seiver 66800
Mats Rasmussen Norway PokerStars player 66300
Alexis Cordova-Nieto 65800
Matthew Smith USA PokerStars player 65700
Jose Alboukrek 65300
Brian Horton USA PokerStars player 65300
Shahriar Assareh USA PokerStars player 65200
Joseph Bartholdi 65100
Joseph Brandenburg 65100
Jonathan Neckar 65000
Robert Durante Canada� PokerStars player 65000
Chris McCormack 65000
Andreas Hoivold Norway PokerStars player 64800
Nick Binger 64700
Joseph Williams 64600
Paul Villamizar Canada� PokerStars player 64300
Arkadiy Tsinis USA PokerStars player 64100
John Taitt 63700
Thomas Babington 63600
Martin Medina 63000
Olivier Busquet 62800
James Fisher 62800
Kuo 62300
Dan Jiacopello 62200
Charlie Scharfe Canada� PokerStars player 62200
Jay Kwon 61500
Daniel Shak 61300
Brian Smith USA PokerStars player 61100
Dennis Seagle 60600
Bob Lauria USA PokerStars player 60400
Grace Gurganus 60300
Romik Vartzar 60200
William Phillips 60100
Christian Harder USA PokerStars player 60100
Steven Goosen 60000
Michael Collins USA PokerStars player 59700
David Callaghan 59500
Vincent Rubianes 59400
Ludovic Schlama 59400
Adam Katz USA PokerStars player 59100
Jose Franco 58900
Kevin Schaffel 58800
Josh Arieh 58600
Kyle Zartman 58500
Sorel Mizzi 58300
Christopher Klodnicki USA PokerStars player 58000
Timothy Burt 57600
Bryan Paris USA PokerStars player 57500
Daniel Clemente 57400
Jamie Cohen 57400
Robert Thornhill 57200
Martins Adeniya United Kingdom� PokerStars player 57200
Benoit Gariepy Canada� PokerStars player 57000
Ravi Raghavan 56700
Soheil Shamseddin 56600
Thomas Cooke 56500
Kent Goulding USA PokerStars player 56400
Bahador Ahmadi 56300
Mikhail Marchenko Russian Federation PokerStars player 55800
Arnold Rychner USA PokerStars player 55800
Jonathan Palmer 55800
Andrew Leonard Ireland PokerStars player 55500
Michael Beasley 55400
Steven Karp 55400
Justin Jones 55200
Robert Tepper 55200
Jeremiah Vinsant 55100
Michael Frazi Australia PokerStars player 54700
Ryan O'Connor United Kingdom� PokerStars player 54100
Samuel Feurprier France� PokerStars player 54100
Mike Garbens 54000
Ronald Lawton UK PokerStars player 53800
Jordan Morgan 53600
Chad Layne 53500
Chris Kassela 53300
Dmitrii Valouev 53000
Edward Lawson 53000
Joshua Tekesky USA PokerStars player 52800
Stacy Kopacz 52700
John Roveto 52300
Mark Phillips 52000
Jacob Bazeley 51900
Paul Evans 51900
Isaac Haxton 51700
Zal Irani USA PokerStars player 51600
Chase Steely 51500
Kenny Nguyen 51400
Andrew Brokos USA PokerStars player 51400
Corey Souther 51200
Joseph McGowan 51200
Jacques Zaicik France 51200
Christina Linderman 51100
Van Marcus 51000
Tom McEvoy USA Team PokerStars Pro 50900
Anthony Grappo 50300
James Carroll 50100
Michael Benvenuti 49800
Michael Hallen 49400
John O'Shea 49400
John Franciosi 49400
Ethan Foulkes 49300
Michael Kamran 49100
Jason Potter USA PokerStars player 49000
Amanda Baker 48700
Ryan Simmonds 48600
Simon Taberham Australia PokerStars player 48500
Daniel Moravec 47900
Jimmie Caldwell 47600
Ryan D'Angelo 47500
Robert Wisiak 47000
Tuan Vu 47000
Ciaran Begley-Carter Canada� PokerStars player 46600
Derek Norton USA PokerStars player 46600
Gift Kusuwan USA PokerStars player 46200
Owen Crowe Canada PokerStars player 46000
Brian Mintz 45900
Jesse McEuen USA PokerStars player 45600
Aadam Daya 45600
Russell Rosenblum 45600
Joshua Smith 45500
Blake Buffington 45100
Yunus Jamal 45000
Amit Makhija 44700
Nigel Jones 44400
Jeffrey Anderson USA PokerStars player 44300
Aaron Been 44200
Herbert Montalbano 44100
Andrew Chen Canada PokerStars player 44000
Roberto Ingino 43800
Jesse Fulmer 43800
Fernando Gordo 43700
Kevin Macphee USA PokerStars player 43300
Frank Rusnak USA PokerStars player 43200
Robert Roseman 43100
Bill Chen USA Friend of PokerStars.net 43100
Joseph Cheong 43000
Brett Richey 42600
Bruno Martin France� PokerStars player 42500
Jay Goldenberg USA PokerStars player 42400
Radwan Khuri 42400
Ben Lamb 42300
David Sutherland 42100
Rick Barabino USA PokerStars player 42000
David Lucchesi 41900
Stephen Bachman USA PokerStars player 41800
Jimmie Guinther USA PokerStars player 41400
Santiago Terrazas Spain� PokerStars player 41400
Raymond Davis 41300
Jason Mercier USA Team PokerStars Pro 41000
Cory Harrison Australia� PokerStars player 40900
Barry Greenstein USA Team PokerStars Pro 40700
Michael Graydon Ireland� PokerStars player 40600
Dennis Waterman USA PokerStars player 40600
Amnon Filippi 40500
Steve Billirakis 40400
James Pechac 39900
Michael Botwin USA PokerStars player 39600
Michael Binger 39400
David Paredes 39400
Wayne Wagner 39200
Ralph Mandarino USA PokerStars player 39100
Rafael Kibrit USA PokerStars player 38700
Riccardo Conigliaro Spain� PokerStars player 38600
Felipe Kuhlmann Mexico� PokerStars player 38500
Matt Stout USA PokerStars player 38500
Matthew Waxman 37900
Jason Glass USA PokerStars player 37300
Sergio Braga Brazil PokerStars player 37300
Alexander Queen 36900
Lloyd Mandel USA PokerStars player 36900
Andrey Martsev 36300
Jared Okun 36100
Charles Joerg 36000
Zachary Goldberg USA PokerStars player 35900
Joe Hachem Australia Team PokerStars Pro 35600
Kien Tieu 35600
Thong Tran 35400
Dorianne May USA PokerStars player 35400
Adam Adler 35300
Adam Lippert 35300
Marco Johnson 35200
Richard Dinunzio 34600
Bryan Leskowitz USA PokerStars player 34500
Joshua Herman Canada PokerStars player 34200
Patrick Ricci 34000
Paul Magriel USA PokerStars player 33900
Brandon Garrity 33700
Frederic Moulin Canada� PokerStars player 33600
Sebastien Doray France PokerStars player 33400
Seth Schikler USA PokerStars player 33300
Burt Boutin 33200
Binh Nguyen 33100
Tony Burton 32900
Lars Bonding 32700
Matthew Zola 32400
Sebastien Soares 32300
Allen Bari 32100
Richard Kirsch 32000
Jason Schacter United Kingdom� PokerStars player 31400
Raffi King 31300
Thomas Neville USA PokerStars player 31300
Joshua Mancuso 31200
Georgios Phiniotis 31100
David Poces 31000
Donald Toporowski Canada 30900
Jon Eaton USA PokerStars player 30800
Michael Smith 30700
Anthony Duthuille France� PokerStars player 30700
Zachary Fahmie 30600
Joe Weiss 30500
Stuart Marshak 30000
Tom Pniak 30000
Tony Cousineau 29900
Gissela Heredia 29700
Frank Traino USA PokerStars player 29700
Vincent Jacques Canada PokerStars player 29500
Anthony Diehl 29400
Philip Elliott Canada� PokerStars player 29200
Jim Pritchard 29100
Robby Westrom USA PokerStars player 29000
Ben Stoesser Germany PokerStars player 28900
Scott Epstein 28800
Rodney Burt 28700
Evan Schwartz 28700
Eric Schwartz USA PokerStars player 28500
Geoffrey Ulrich Canada� PokerStars player 28400
Shane Schleger USA PokerStars player 28300
Jeff Shulman 28200
Corey Hochman 28100
Matthew Place USA PokerStars player 28100
Ralph Hengelhaupt 28000
Carter King 27600
Jorn Mikkelsen Norway PokerStars player 27600
Daniel Thomas USA PokerStars player 27300
James Pritchard 27200
Timothy Ulmer USA PokerStars player 26900
Paul Testud France PokerStars player 26900
Brad Stebeleski Canada PokerStars player 26800
Adam Ashworth United Kingdom PokerStars player 26700
Mark Muchnik 26600
Andrew Brown 26600
Danny Moss USA PokerStars player 26200
Kurtis Araki USA PokerStars player 26200
James Namken USA PokerStars player 25900
Steven Lucia 25900
Constantine Moustakis 25900
Ory Hen 25900
Igor Merda 25700
Pat Pezzin Canada PokerStars player 25300
Mark Darner USA PokerStars player 25200
Musa Mustafa 25000
Michael Skomac 24900
Michael Mizrachi 24800
Khalid Sultani USA PokerStars player 24600
David Sayago Spain PokerStars player 24300
Farid Vaghefi 24200
William Seymour 24100
Lisa Hamilton 23600
Dariusz Paszkiewicz Poland� PokerStars player 23400
Jean Ledoux Canada 22900
Jose Colin 22400
Jackson Baber USA PokerStars player 22300
John Perry USA PokerStars player 22300
David Pontier 22200
Craig Crivello 22100
Rich Caplan Canada� PokerStars player 22100
William Wright USA PokerStars player 21700
Clinton Keown 21600
Terricita Evanowski 21100
Naohiko Yamazaki 21100
Randy Hanley 20800
David Atrubin USA PokerStars player 20600
Wayne Boich 20400
Paul Wasicka 20200
Russell Floyd 20200
Travis Allen USA PokerStars player 20100
William Stalcup USA PokerStars player 19900
Eli Miskin Canada� PokerStars player 19800
Brion Maciel USA PokerStars player 19400
Steve Stolzmann USA PokerStars player 19300
Steven Paul 19300
Ben Waters 18900
Anthony George 18500
David Zeitlin 18400
Franklin Chambers 18200
Eric Davis 18100
Christiano Ribeiro Brazil� PokerStars player 17900
Jordan Stone USA PokerStars player 17600
Justin Levy 17300
Cylus Watson USA PokerStars player 17300
Nicholas Ceci 17300
Tyler Hamade Canada� PokerStars player 17100
Brett Schwertley 17000
Andrew Grimason Ireland PokerStars player 17000
Albert Rogers 17000
Victor Ramdin USA Team PokerStars Pro 16900
Dennis Phillips USA Team PokerStars Pro 16400
Rob Sampson United Kingdom� PokerStars player 16300
Thomas Fuller 16300
Bobby Law 16100
Domingo Arguello 16100
Wolbert Bartlema Netherlands PokerStars player 16000
Sam Iola USA PokerStars player 15900
Michael Coglianese 15700
Jon Lane USA PokerStars player 15400
Timothy Carr USA PokerStars player 15300
Carol Michel USA PokerStars player 15200
John Esposito 15000
Anton Talle USA PokerStars player 14900
Blake Cahail 14800
Desmond Portano USA PokerStars player 14400
Emeline Boich 14100
Gordon Eng 14000
Truong Trinh USA PokerStars player 13900
David Tovar Rei Portugal PokerStars player 13500
Hugo Robitaille Canada PokerStars player 13200
Edward Brogdon 13000
Michael Haag 12700
Jennifer Baker 12000
Diego Noriega Mexico� PokerStars player 11500
Harlen Miller 11500
Lee Markholt 11200
Christian Stratmeyer 10900
Guang Lu Canada� PokerStars player 10900
Robert Suer 10300
Peter Rho 10200
Delphine Leclainche France PokerStars player 10000
Ryan Gatrel USA 9900
Matthew Nichol 9900
Christopher Brown USA PokerStars player 9700
Melanie Weisner USA PokerStars player 9400
Emilio Van Boxmeer Germany� PokerStars player 8800
Kyle Turner Canada� PokerStars player 8100
Maurice Sova 7400
Quinn Do 2400

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Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Cliff notes.

not drawing a set # of hands at the end of the day is stupid

...and they need a new chipset that uses some colors that actually contrast with each other

Racing off the 25's seemed badly timed too. Why wouldn't we race them off when we were bagging up, and not waste 10 minutes?

they did same thing in pca too

At some point they want to move the DSE's into the Sands convention center, a la the WSOP. I don't know what the critical mass is to reach the tipping point, but I think it would have been a lock if they had sold out (had alternates) in this one. The should probably do it for sure if there's another NAPT next year.

Ended with 77k. Looking forward to tomorrow. Table draws would be coo.

after all these years of running live tourneys, it is amazing that so many major operators still miss some of the simple things: the timing of chip race-off, the color of damn chips!!!! how difficult is it to get 8-10 chip demoninations that have distinguishing colors?

are players really stalling that much this deep on day 1. it was fine at my table.

gl all! i got owned

looking forward to loungin for a few days, playing a few more events, etc. might have to put in a session of mtts and 180s from my room today hehe.

how did moneymaker get chips?

Postives:

1. Turnout was amazing.
2. Hotel rooms are phenomenal, best I've ever been in for a standard room.
3. It's in Vegas -- great restaurants, attractions, easy to go to, etc.

Negatives:

1. Tournament location. Echo everything ZBTHorton said. We shouldn't have to contend with smoke while playing, Venetian is the only place I've played in the past 2 years where that was an issue. Also the noise from the damn machines is really loud and disconcerting.

2. Chips. The colors are awful. Three times in the first two hours at my table someone (each time a different person) accidentally threw out a 10K chip! That should never happen.

And the Venetian's ridiculous policy, which it seems to be their goal in life to enforce, that your biggest chips have to be on top of your stack or separate just contributes to the confusion -- if those chips are on the bottom of your stack, you'll never throw them out accidentally. And guess what? The colors are all so similar that no matter where you keep your big chips no one else at the table can see them and if they want to know how much you have behind they're going to ask anyway. So it's a pointless rule that just creates the potential for huge mistakes in putting chips in the pot.

3. Structure. An event of this magnitude should have at least 75 minute levels to start. 8 hours in, a starting stack is 30 BBs. The last two live events I played were events with smaller buy-ins than this one, the Borgata $3500 main and a Foxwoods $1500 megastack. 8 hours in at Borgata, you'd be a bit less than midway through a level where a starting stack is 80 BBs. 8 hours in at Foxwoods, a starting stack would be 40 BBs.


Obviously the structure is an NAPT-wide thing and I know some people disagree with me on in it. If they can get the tournament location sorted out, I think Venetian would be such a great venue that they should make it the centerpiece of the NAPT (as the Bellagio is for the WPT) and hold multiple events here per year.

everyone was whining about the big denominations in front thing, but i thought it was a totally standard rule