Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
America’s Vanessa Selbst has taken one of the biggest prizes in European poker, the final of the Partouche Poker Tour.
Selbst, an instructor for leading poker training site Deuces Cracked, used her loose-aggressive style to blast her way through the final table to take the first prize of €1,300,000 in what was a delayed “November Nine” style final table to conclude the €8,500 buy in event.
She’d gone into what turned out to be the nine person final table with the chip lead as the event was dogged by scandal. German Ali Tekintamgac was disqualified following an investigation by tournament organisers. It’s been claimed that he was using spotters who would indicate his opponents cards to him. He’d already been asked to leave the EPT in Tallinn in the past. Tekintamgac’s chips were removed from the game and his activites are now being investigated by the French police.
Two French players took second and third, with Raphael Kroll second and experienced tournament grinder Fabrice Soulier third.
Selbst, known, as fslexcduck on line, has already bagged the Pokerstars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun title this year despite mixing top flight tournament poker with studying at law school and she remains one of the most difficult players in the game to deal with when she gets chips. We also hope she forgave the Eurosport commentator who referred to Selbst as “he” during the TV coverage of the tournament.
Tags: Partouche Poker Tour, Vanessa Selbst