Tauan Naves WIns Mid-States Poker Tour Stop At The Venetian Poker Room

Tauan Naves received the Mid-States Poker Tour cease on the Venetian Poker Room on Dec. 4 in Las Vegas, Nevada to assert the highest prize value $60,675 and his first MSPT title. The Brazilian poker participant now holds practically $2.5 million in profession match earnings after this newest triumph. This was his first win in america to go together with match titles on the PokerStars Caribbean Journey and the Brazilian Collection of Poker.

“I really feel so good, it’s good. I’ve by no means received a match at Venetian, that is my first time. I’m so glad. I prefer to play right here a lot, it’s one other atmosphere, one other place, and the power is so totally different than enjoying on-line and I actually like that,” stated Naves proper after the win to reporters.

He continued, “I prefer to play stay generally, and I prefer to play on-line at different instances. Once I change my temper it’s higher then if I solely play on-line, on-line, on-line on a regular basis. If I combine it up it’s higher. The sphere is totally different stay, there are such huge fields on-line with over 1,000 gamers. I believe after I play stay, I play towards the man, not the match.”

When requested concerning the heads-up remaining to finish the interview, Naves responded, “Each time in my thoughts I simply thought of enjoying my finest, not if I had extra chips or much less. I simply wished to do my finest, and in poker whenever you’re enjoying your finest you enhance EV and it offers you confidence.”

The $1,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match drew a area of 317 entries over three beginning flights to set the prize pool at $305,905. The highest 36 gamers all secured a min-cash value $2,325, and that’s what number of gamers returned for the ultimate day of the match. Notables that made the cash in the course of the playdown to the ultimate 9 included Peter Cross (thirteenth), Zachary Donovan (fifteenth), Matt Salsberg (twenty fifth), Andrew Rodgers (thirtieth), and Ankush Mandavia (thirty fifth).

Naves was within the backside third in chips when the ultimate desk started, and the primary participant to fall was Venetian Poker Room legend Eric Baldwin in ninth place. Jeremy Schultz fell subsequent in eighth place, after which Barry Shulman took out Jacques Mayer in seventh place to take issues all the way down to the final half-dozen.

WSOP Circuit Commerce On line casino primary occasion winner Jessica Vierling got here into the ultimate desk with the chip lead, however she fell by the hands of Shulman as nicely in sixth place. Yang Li began his climb to the highest when he eradicated Kodey Hammer in fifth place, and the two-time World Collection of Poker gold bracelet winner Shulman was out subsequent in fourth place. Tauan Naves took out Shulman, after which he stored that momentum rolling with a knockout punch delivered to Romain Bremond in third place.

The chip counts had been about 2:1 in favor of Li when the ultimate match started, after which each gamers scored key double ups to delay the ultimate battle for shut to 2 hours. They had been fairly shut in chips when the ultimate hand befell, and it took a cooler to shut out the day. That remaining hand noticed Li get all in with Q4 within the gap with the board studying Q84A9. Naves awoke with the flush nevertheless holding 86, and that gave him the pot and match win. Li grabbed $43,980 for his deep run within the match, and his profession earnings are actually simply shy of $350,000.