Vanessa Selbst has won NAPT Mohegan Sun. Vanessa Selbst has won NAPT Mohegan Sun. You read it twice because it has happened twice. She has done it again.

This time last year, the Team PokerStars Pro from Brooklyn, New York, bested a field of 716 to win $750,000 and her first NAPT Mohegan Sun title. A year later, here we are again.  Vanessa just took down the NAPT championship again.

This time the field was 387 players and the first prize is $450,000. That means 1,101 players have tried and failed to knock Selbst out of a poker tournament in this room and $1.2 million is the combined reward for this Uncasville immortality. (Let's not forget, in the intervening year she also won close to $1,650,000 in France.)

But let's say it again because it becomes no less remarkable through repetition: Vanessa Selbst is the back-to-back NAPT Mohegan Sun champion. No one can beat her.

"I don't know, I'm speechless," she said when asked if there would be a three-peat next year. Her supporters seem to think so. One of them carried a sign today that read: "Every year the same damn thing."

Tonight Selbst overturned a near three-to-one heads up chip deficit against Dan Shak to win. It was the first time she had ever gone to a heads-up duel without the lead, but it didn't seem to matter one jot. She had had the breaks when necessary, but was extraordinarily focused too.

"I didn't win this in my typical fashion," Selbst said. "I didn't steamroll the table. I had some luck on my side and I played a pretty good heads up game against a formidable opponent."

Congratulations to Vanessa Selbst from everyone here at Woman Poker Player magazine! 

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