North American Poker Tour

Sport	Texas Hold 'em
Founded	2010
CEO	Kevin Harrington
Country	North America
Official website	napt.com

The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) was a series of international poker tournaments held in North America. The NAPT included an associated television series broadcasting the final table of some of the tournaments.

The NAPT was started in 2010 by PokerStars, then the largest online poker cardroom in the world.^[1] The televised series aired on ESPN2 in the United States.^[2]

Players were able to enter the NAPT events by paying the entry fee or by playing online poker freeroll satellites on the PokerStars.net domain.^[3]

Season 1 consisted of 7 events played in 2010. Season 2 saw 4 events played in early 2011 before competition was suspended.

On April 15, 2011, along with similar competitors' sites, Pokerstars.com was seized and shut down by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which alleged it was in violation of federal bank fraud and money laundering laws.^[4] The company subsequently stopped allowing players from the United States to play real money games and temporarily moved the main company website to Pokerstars.eu.

As of February 13, 2012, the NAPT website, and information on remaining events for Season 2, has not been updated since the April 15, 2011 seizure. The last NAPT event had concluded just 2 days earlier, on April 13, 2011, when Vanessa Selbst defended her Season 1 NAPT Mohegan Sun victory by winning the Season 2 NAPT Mohegan Sun event.

As of March 3, 2012 (possibly earlier), the NAPT website no longer shows the North American series—redirecting instead to information regarding the Latin American Poker Tour.

On August 30, 2023, PokerStars announced that the North American Poker Tour would return to the US with a stop in Las Vegas, Nevada, in November.^[5]

Taking place from November 4-12, 2023, the Third Season of the NAPT will feature a $1650 Main Event, a $5300 High Roller event, and a $550 PokerStars Cup at the Resorts World Las Vegas.^[6]

Results

Season 1

Main article: North American Poker Tour season 1

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
January 5 to 11, 2010	PCA 2010 Paradise Island	1,529	$14,831,300	Harrison Gimbel[7]	$2,200,000
January 11 to 14, 2010	PCA 2010 High Roller Paradise Island	84	$2,057,998	William Reynolds[8]	$576,240
February 20 to 24, 2010	NAPT Venetian Las Vegas / NV	872	$4,017,740	Tom Marchese[9]	$827,648
February 23 to 25, 2010	NAPT Venetian High Roller Bounty Shootout Las Vegas / NV	49	$1,240,000	Ashton Griffin[10]	$560,000
April 7 to 11, 2010	NAPT Mohegan Sun Uncasville / CT	716	$3,365,200	Vanessa Selbst[11]	$750,000
April 11 to 13, 2010	NAPT Mohegan Sun High Roller Bounty Shootout Uncasville / CT	35	$875,000	Jason Mercier[12]	$475,000
November 12 to 17, 2010	NAPT Los Angeles Los Angeles / CA	701	$3,229,857	Joe Tehan[13]	$725,000

Season 2

Main article: North American Poker Tour season 2

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
January 8 to 15, 2011	PCA 2011 Paradise Island	1,560	$15,132,000	Galen Hall[14]	$2,300,000
January 15 and 16, 2011	PCA 2011 NAPT Bounty Shootout Paradise Island	216	$838,100	Andrew Chen[15]	$263,100
April 9 to 13, 2011	NAPT Mohegan Sun Uncasville / CT	387	$1,764,330	Vanessa Selbst[16]	$450,000
April 12 to 14, 2011	NAPT Mohegan Sun High Roller Bounty Shootout Uncasville / CT	78	$780,000	Jason Mercier[17]	$246,600

Season 3

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
November 6 to 11, 2023	NAPT Las Vegas Las Vegas / NV	1,095	$1,609,650	Sami Bechahed[18]	$268.945
November 10 to 12, 2023	NAPT Las Vegas High Roller Las Vegas / NV	150	$727,500	Samuel Laskowitz[19]	$180,850

References

External links

• Official site