Eight Left; One Trophy
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Day 4 of this PokerStars.net NAPT Los Angeles was a quick one as the field was whittled from 19 down to the requisite eight in just over four hours. Christopher DeMaci came into the day with the chip lead, and he's still comfortably in that spot after adding another ~2.5 million chips to his stack over the course of this short day. He'll start the final table with 6,283,000 in front of him.
Starting the day in second place, Micah Raskin went from the penthouse to out of the house as the first player eliminated, losing his full stack literally before his chips were even out of the bag. It was a bit of a blowup; Raskin bluffed off more than 2 million chips with pocket sixes on a jack-ten-ten-ace board. DeMaci was the benefactor of the monster pot that unfolded, and his ace-ten was plenty good enough to send Raskin out the door and move himself up over that 6-million chip mark.
Don't look now, though, but Jason Mercier is hot on DeMaci's heels in second place with 3.8 million flat. Mercier began Day 4 in third place, and he's moved up a spot into second overall heading into tomorrow's final table. DeMaci has the chip lead, but Mercier is a near-unanimous favorite among the other media and players we polled.
If Mercier can indeed pull this thing out, he'll become the first player to win a Main Event in multiple PokerStars tours. Oddly enough, the 2008 EPT San Remo that he conquered had the same number of players as this NAPT event: 701. Fate? Coincidence? We'll know the answer tomorrow night.
Wednesday's final table is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., and we're headed over to Compton to close the books on this event. Join us then as we crown our final NAPT champion of Season 1!