Congratulations to Vanessa Selbst, Champion of 2010 NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event! ($750,000)

Over the past five days we witnessed a dominating performance from Vanessa Selbst. She started out strong on Day 1 and never relented. By the time today's final table started, she had amassed more than 4.5 million chips, just behind Mike Beasley's 4.9 million chips.

Each player played strong, aggressive poker at today's final table, but Selbst also had to the good fortune of flopping some big hands in spots where her shorter-stacked opponents were forced to put their chips in. She even ran well in her flips, notably beating out Derek Raymond's ace-ten with pocket sixes for a pot worth roughly 5 million of the 21 million total chips.

At the end, it was the two chip leaders, Selbst and Beasley, to battle it out heads-up for the championship. Selbst had a 7-to-1 chip lead at that point. It didn't take her long to finish things off and take home the $750,000 first prize.

That ends our coverage of the 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event, but we're not done here just yet. Tomorrow we'll bring you coverage of Day 1 of the $25,000 High Rollers Bounty Shootout. That's sure to be a field loaded with the top talent in poker. You won't want to miss it!

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