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The event was a near sell-out as 872 players came up with $5,000 yesterday in order to take their shot at life-changing money and the distinction of becoming the first-ever NAPT champion. The player fastest out of the gate yesterday was Las Vegas local Andy Seth, who finished the day with 245,600. He'll have the pole position and a slight edge over the rest of the field as 475 survivors return on Sunday for Day 2.BkIcE lives!!!!

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Day 2 Coming UpWelcome back for Day 2 of the PokerStars.net NAPT Venetian. Yesterday, the event took the Venetian by storm with 872 players packing the room and taking to the felt. When the day was all said and done, 475 of them remained.Topping the leaderboard is Andy "BKiCe" Seth with 245,600 in chips. Phillips Collins, Mark Ketteringham and Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker round out the list of names who bagged up over 200,000 chips. The average stack going into Day 2 is just over 55,000 chips.Other members of Team PokerStars Pro joining Moneymaker on Day 2 are Barry Greenstein (40,700), Jason Mercier (41,000), Bill Chen (43,100), Tom McEvoy (50,900), Joe Cada (67,000), Daniel Negreanu (76,500), Victor Ramdin (16,900), Greg Raymer (144,100), Joe Hachem (35,600), Vanessa Rousso (144,900) and Dennis Phillips (16,400). Friend of PokerStars Orel Hershiser bagged up 84,000 chips and is also still in the mix.The remaining players will kick off play at 12:00 p.m. local time here in Las Vegas. The schedule says we're going to be plying down to 54 players or finishing six levels, whichever comes first. It doesn't look like we're going to get anywhere near 54 players, so it looks like after six levels we'll be done.

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21 February 2010, 2:47 pmRealKidPoker: Brynn Kenney Neverwin and Levy's little bro at my table. We are discussing an upcoming fight. Asked Kenney if he's been spit on lately.

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:29pm: Chatty DanielMr. Negreanu fluctuates between being quiet and absorbed by the music in his headphones, to being chatty and intimidating at the tables. For the first few hours of Day 2, it's been the latter.We approached as he was playing a very aggressive hand. With 3♥ 2♣ K♠ 4♦ 5♣ on the board, he led out with a sizable bet as he had been doing all along, and his opponent became clearly frustrated. He ultimately folded with only a short stack left behind. Negreanu proceeded to laugh it up with the player to his right about the possibility that he was indeed bluffing on that hand.Negreanu's table is on the rail, and the poker fans are lining up along the ropes to catch a glimpse of him or hear some of his table talk. He hasn't disappointed thus far, as the jokes and random conversations keep coming.

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Raymer Breaks Out the Six-BetWow. This is some sick stuff. Makes us long for a hole card cam. A player in early position raised to 3,000. The player behind him called, and it folded to Greg Raymer on the button. He bumped it to 8,000. Standard so far.The small blind cold four-bets to 18,000. Big blind folded, and it was back to the original raiser. Does he flat here? Shove? Nope. He re-re-repopped it to 34,800 total, leaving himself about 200k behind. Obvious snap fold from the player behind him, right? Not exactly. He tanked, and tanked, and eventually someone called the clock on him. As the floor was counting down, he gave it up. And then Fossilman shipped in his stack for the rarely seen six-bet shove. Raymer had 77,600 behind, only about 7k more than the size of the pot. The five-bettor found a fold, and Raymer almost doubled his stack without seeing a flop. "I have to admit my six-betting range their is pretty slim," laughed Raymer.

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You Make the Call, Part 2At a tournament as large as this one, there are going to be many, many floor rulings requested. Some of them are going to be made correctly; some incorrectly. And some are going to be made incorrectly but then over-ruled and the correct decision is going to come out. That's what happened at Dan Shak's table.Shak played a pot in position against one opponent. After the flop came down, Shak inadvertently bet 7,000 out of turn. His opponent was supposed to act first. The dealer told Shak that the 7,000 must stay in the pot, even after Shak's opponent moved all in for 52,000 and Shak folded. Shak protested that he didn't think that was correct, but the 7,000 went to his opponent anyway.By the time a floor was summoned to the table, a flop was already out for the next hand. The floor ruled that Shak should have been entitled to the 7,000 but because the table was already on the next hand there was nothing he could do. Shak said that couldn't be right; the floor said he would bring a director over to the table.A few hands later a director came to give a final ruling. Shak pointed out that neither he nor his opponent had played a single pot since the disputed hand. The director went over all the action with the whole table. He ruled that because Shak's opponent moved all in, rather than checking and allowing Shak's 7,000-chip bet to stand, Shak was entitled to pull the 7,000 back. Therefore 7,000 was returned from his opponent to Shak.

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6:02pm: Negreanu doublesWhen Daniel Negreanu alerted the media via Twitter that he was down to 15K chips, we planted ourselves in the area to see the forthcoming action.It didn't take long for him to push all-in for his last 14,700, but with no callers, he took the blinds and antes. On the very next hand, he did it again, and this time he found a caller. Negreanu turned over the one card he knew was an ace, then joked to his opponent that the other was likely an ace. But it wasn't. He flipped A♦ 2♣, but the other player showed a dominating A♥ Q♥. The board came 3♥ 2♦ 8♠ 3♦ 9♣, and the pair of deuces was good enough for the double-up."It's only 19,300!" Negreanu joked with his opponent, who couldn't help but crack a smile.

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gl Marky and gg all

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