Maryland LIVE! Highlights
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2024 Maryland State Poker Championship
Maryland LIVE! Highlights
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After nearly two week and eighteen events at the Maryland State Poker Championship hosted by Maryland Live! Casino, the series has drawn to a close. Samuel Renauro and Daniel Markovitz took down the final tournament, Event #18: $400 Tag Team, for $2,640 each on the same day that Ben Gazzola bested Parker Talbot in heads-up play to scoop the $2,200 Main Event for a career best $110,578. Gazzola also takes home a NAPT Gold Pass valued at $10,000.
The NAPT now heads to Philly Live! Casino from August 21st to September 8th where three more Gold Passes will be up for grabs. The series culminates with the $2,200 Main Event that will run between September 4th and 8th. As with the Maryland State Poker Championship, PokerNews will be on hand to provide coverage.
Be sure to tune in then to get more updates from the NAPT.
Arthur Rippy bested a 52-strong field in Event #17: Live! Stacks to claim the $18,720 first place prize. The top seven finishers each received a portion of the $50,596 prizepool and it took a marathon 13-hour day to whittle the entrants down to a winner.
With the elimination of start of day chipleader Xiaoqiong Liu in third place, the Main Event at the Maryland State Poker Championship is now heads-up.
Ben Gazzola enters the final stage of play with a nearly 2:1 chip advantage over Parker Talbot but the popular Canadian streamer has already demonstrated at this final table that he is very capable of making a comeback.
Live updates can be found here as the Main Event approaches its conclusion.
While the Maryland State Poker Championship at Maryland Live! Casino is drawing to a close, there are plenty more opportunities to win your way to the NAPT in Las Vegas just over the horizon. Next week, another series kicks off at Philly Live! Casino. There will be three more NAPT Gold Passes up for grabs there, with each awarding the winner a $5,300 entry to the Main Event in Las Vegas as well as $2,900 for hotel accommodations and $1,800 to cover other expenses.
Today marks the last day of the 2024 Maryland State Poker Championship. There are two more events that have yet to crown a winner, including the Main Event, which gets underway at 2:15 p.m. with just five players remaining. Pokerstars ambassador Parker Talbot remains in contention with the second largest stack. Updates from that tournament can be found here.
Meanwhile, the last event, the $400 Tag Team Switch, kicked off at 11:15 a.m. this morning and will play down to a winner today. Unlike a traditional tag team event, both players from a team receive separate stacks that they play on their own. Those stacks will only be combined should both players make the final table. Any payouts are, as in any other team poker event, divided equally between the two participants. A recap of that tournament will be available later tonight.
The Main Event at the Maryland State Poker Championship was scheduled to play down to six players on the second day but, after agreeing to finish out the level when at that point, Michael Bills was eliminated to leave the tournament five handed heading into the third and final day,
Xiaoqiong Liu emerged with the biggest stack, bagging an impressive 2,600,000 to put her in pole position to scoop the title. Pokerstars ambassador Parker Talbot came into the final table as the short stack but found a couple of doubles to finish the day second in chips with 2,365,000. Start of day chipleader Nicholas Verderamo rounds out the top three on 2,165,000.
A full recap of the day's play can be found here and the live reporting team will be on hand tomorrow to provide coverage through to the conclusion of the event.
After the successful 2023 return of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) in Las Vegas, PokerStars announced that the NAPT will be back at Resorts World Las Vegas this year for ten days of tournament poker action.
The 2024 NAPT Las Vegas festival will take place Nov. 1-10, culminating with a $5,300 buy-in NAPT Main Event — an increase from last year's $1,650 price tag — after a successful event with a strong turnout in 2023.
“Last year, the NAPT smashed all expectations, so this year, we’re going even bigger," PokerStars North America Vice President Steve Preiss said in a press release. "With a premier partner like Resorts World Las Vegas, we’re stepping up our game: bigger tournaments, buy-ins, and player-focused events.”