The 2025 PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) ran from November 3-12 at Resorts World Las Vegas, and the third version of the competition proved to be an enormous success.
There have been 50-numbered occasions on the schedule, however of these, 14 had been satellite tv for pc tournaments. So, over the course of 36 “Spadie” occasions, a mixed 4,689 entrants competed, and $12,100,200 in prize cash was awarded.
PokerNews was on-site to supply reside updates from three tournaments together with Gal Yifrach besting Thomas Boivin to win the $5,300 NAPT Important Occasion for $543,025; Stephen Chidwick navigating a 23-entry subject to win Occasion #12: $50,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler for $557,930; and Nikolai Mamut claiming victory within the $1,100 PS Open Important Occasion for $158,700.
Another large scores had been Vitalijs Zavorontnijs besting a 158-entry subject to win Occasion #42: $10,300 Excessive Curler for $358,400; Sean De Jesus Rafael taking down Occasion #22: $25,000 NAPT PLO Excessive Curler for $171,700; Joao Simao topping a 60-entry subject in Occasion #13: $10,200 NLH/PLO for $174,600; and up to date $100,000 PLO Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl champ John Riordan rising victorious in Occasion #8: $5,200 PLO for $58,400.
Right here’s a have a look at among the greater winners from the 2025 NAPT.
Cherish Andrews Bests Nick Petrangelo
One of many first large tournaments was Occasion #5: $10,300 NLH Thriller Bounty on November 3. That event drew 60 gamers who rebought 24 instances, which meant the 84-entry subject generated an $814,800 prize pool ($394,800 in common prize pool + $420,000 in bounty prize pool).
Not surprisingly, it was a stacked closing desk that included Sam Laskowitz (4th for $64,400 + $39,400 in bounties) and David Coleman (third for $51,200 + $125,000 in bounties). In the long run, it was Cherish Andrews defeating Nick Petrangelo in heads-up play to win the title and $111,300 first-place prize, which, together with $220,000 in bounties, gave her a complete of $331,300 in prize cash.
Occasion #5 Remaining Outcomes
Nick Petrangelo Rebounds
Whereas Petrangelo needed to accept runner-up in Occasion #5, he didn’t have to attend lengthy to say a title of his personal. The next day in Occasion #9: $20,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler Heat Up, he bested a 53-entry subject (43 distinctive gamers + 10 re-entries) to win $309,030.
He did so by besting arguably one of many hardest closing tables in latest reminiscence, one which included among the hottest gamers on the earth proper now.
Occasion #9 Remaining Outcomes
James & Rawn Victorious in Girls’s Occasions
One of many premier tournaments on the schedule was Occasion #33: $330 Girls’s Occasion, which supplied a $50,000 GTD. With 175 runners, the highest 23 finishers made the cash, together with PokerStars Ambassador Caitlin Comeskey (18th – $670), Tirza Sanders (thirteenth – $1,020), and Elaine Rawn (tenth – $1,170). After a protracted day of play, it was Raena James claiming the title for $11,670.
$330 Girls’s Occasion Remaining Desk Outcomes
Talking of Rawn, she was additionally one among 81 entrants to compete in Occasion #44: $1,100 Girls’s Excessive Curler, which supplied up a $77,760 prize pool to the highest 11 finishers. Comeskey as soon as once more cashed completed ninth for $2,430, whereas Kristen Deardorff positioned sixth for $5,970.
After Lydia Cugudda bowed out in third place for $10,090, the title got here right down to Rawn and Yansong Kou. The previous prevailed in heads-up play to take the title and $21,910 prime prize again to Canada.
ODB Will get It Carried out in Seniors Occasion
On November 10, Occasion#43: $550 NLH Seniors drew 130 gamers who rebought 47 instances. The 177-entry subject generated an $84,960 prize pool that was paid out to the highest 27 finishers. Some acquainted names to money had been Loyal Sprague (twentieth – $1,110), John Morgan (fifteenth – $1,460), and Matt Salsberg (ninth – $2,230).
When the mud settled, it was David “ODB” Baker defeating David Larson in heads-up play to win the “Spadie” and $18,930 in prize cash.
Seniors Occasion Remaining Desk Outcomes
A Second Probability for Maria Konnikova
One of many final tournaments on the schedule was Occasion #48: $5,300 NAPT Excessive Curler 2nd Probability, which attracted 32 gamers who rebought 4 instances. The 36-entry subject supplied up a $174,600 prize pool to the highest 5 finishers.
PokerStars Ambassador Maria Konnikova ended up defeating 2025 WSOP Important Occasion runner-up John Wasnock in heads-up play to win the event outright for $66,350.
“Positive, I felt like I used to be taking part in effectively – within the zone, locked in, nevertheless you wish to put it,” Konnikova shared in her Substack. “I bought the precise bluffs by way of, bought known as with worse palms once I had worth, made some good calls of my very own once I was being bluffed. But in addition? Man, I bought so extremely fortunate. On the closing desk, after we had been three-handed, I ended up cracking pocket kings. Sure, it was after the flop, not an all-in-pre confrontation.”
Occasion #48 Remaining Desk Outcomes
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Word: any lacking occasions had been satellite tv for pc tournaments.
*Pictures courtesy of PokerStars.
Chad Holloway
PR & Media Supervisor
