Last Updated on October 7, 2026 by Bala Kumar
What is the NAPT?
The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) is PokerStars’ live tournament tour in North America. If you have played live poker in the US over the past few years, you probably know it as “that big November festival at Resorts World.” It has had two very different lives.
The first began in 2010 with $5,000 Main Events at The Venetian, Mohegan Sun and Los Angeles. It ended abruptly in April 2011, when the US government shut down PokerStars’ American operations, just two days after Vanessa Selbst won her second Mohegan Sun title.
The second life started in November 2023, when PokerStars brought the brand back to Resorts World Las Vegas. Three revival festivals followed, each in early November. The most recent Main Event, in November 2025, drew 738 entries and was won by Los Angeles cash-game pro Gal Yifrach for $543,025.
Current status (7 October 2026): No NAPT Las Vegas event is scheduled for 2026. PokerStars has not retired the tour. See “Latest NAPT news” below for details.
This page covers the NAPT schedule, results, every Main Event champion, venues, qualification and side events. We update it whenever PokerStars Live announces a new stop.
NAPT at a glance
| Item | Detail |
| Organizer | PokerStars Live (Flutter Entertainment) |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Eras | 2010–April 2011 (original tour); 2023–2025 (Las Vegas revival) |
| Most recent venue | Resorts World Las Vegas (2023–2025) |
| Typical timing | Early November (revival era) |
| Most recent Main Event | 6–12 November 2025, $5,300 buy-in, $3,000,000 guaranteed |
| Most recent champion | Gal Yifrach (USA), $543,025 |
| Main Events played | 7 |
| Main game | No-Limit Hold’em, with PLO, Mystery Bounty and women’s events on the side |
| Official site | pokerstarslive.com |
NAPT schedule
During the revival era, the NAPT ran once a year as a festival of about ten days in early November at Resorts World Las Vegas. No future NAPT date or venue has been announced as of 7 October 2026.
Cancelled: NAPT Las Vegas 2026
| Event | Expected timing | Venue | Status |
| NAPT Las Vegas 2026 | Early November 2026 (based on past years) | Resorts World Las Vegas | Not running (Card Player, 10 Jul 2026) |
Unconfirmed: 2027 and beyond
| Event | Timing | Venue | Status |
| Next NAPT stop | Not announced | Not announced | No dates confirmed |
Past NAPT festival dates
| Year | Festival dates | Venue |
| 2025 | 3–12 November 2025 | Resorts World Las Vegas |
| 2024 | November 2024 | Resorts World Las Vegas |
| 2023 | November 2023 | Resorts World Las Vegas |
| 2011 | April 2011 | Mohegan Sun, Uncasville |
| 2010 | February, April and November 2010 | The Venetian, Mohegan Sun, Los Angeles |
PokerStars live events still running in the US
PokerStars still runs live poker in the US. The PokerStars Open Philadelphia ran in March 2026 at Live! Casino, where Michael Linster won the Main Event for $126,705, and the Maryland State Poker Championship was scheduled for August 2026. Check pokerstarslive.com for confirmed dates.
NAPT results
The most recent NAPT festival, in Las Vegas in November 2025, awarded more than $12 million in prize money across all events, according to PokerNews.
NAPT 2025 festival results
| Event | Buy-in | Entries | Prize pool | Winner | Prize |
| NAPT Main Event | $5,300 | 738 | $3,579,300 | Gal Yifrach (USA) | $543,025 |
| Super High Roller | $50,000 | 23 | $1,115,730 | Stephen Chidwick (England) | $557,930 |
| High Roller | $10,300 | 158 | $1,532,600 | Vitalijs Zavorotnijs (USA) | $358,400 |
| PokerStars Open Las Vegas | $1,100 | 947 | $909,120 | Nikolai Mamut (Russia) | $158,700 |
| PokerStars Open High Roller | $2,200 | 210 | $403,200 | Gabriel Andrade (USA) | $85,180 |
| Mystery Bounty | $550 | 494 | $237,120 | Thomas Taylor (Canada) | $42,300 |
| Women’s High Roller | $1,100 | 81 | $77,760 | Elaine Rawn (Canada) | $21,910 |
| Women’s Event | $330 | 175 | $50,000 | Raena James (USA) | $11,670 |
Mystery Bounty prize pool and prize include bounties.
NAPT winners
Gal Yifrach won the 2025 NAPT Main Event after a heads-up deal with Belgium’s Thomas Boivin.
2025 Main Event final table
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (US$) |
| 1 | Gal Yifrach | USA | 543,025* |
| 2 | Thomas Boivin | Belgium | 518,575* |
| 3 | Jen Shahade | USA | 291,800 |
| 4 | Ekrem Bozkurt | USA | 224,450 |
| 5 | Michael Berk | USA | 172,650 |
| 6 | Peter Mugar | USA | 132,850 |
| 7 | Abdullah Akbarpoor | Turkey | 102,200 |
| 8 | Richard Green | USA | 78,600 |
*Heads-up deal: both players locked up $518,575, leaving $24,450 for the winner.
How it was won. Boivin started the final day with more than half the chips in play, and Yifrach was fourth in chips. Yifrach chipped up with a few well-timed double-ups, struck the deal, then won the last hand with ace-nine against pocket tens by turning the nut flush. It is a useful reminder for anyone studying final tables: a huge chip lead is pressure, not a guarantee. Shahade’s third place was the biggest score of her career.
Notable high-roller champions
| Player | Event | Year |
| Stephen Chidwick | $50,000 Super High Roller | 2025 |
| Stephen Song | $25,000 Super High Roller | 2024 |
| Sam Soverel | $10,300 High Roller | 2024 |
| Jesse Lonis | $10,300 Super High Roller | 2023 |
| Jason Mercier | High Roller Bounty Shootout, Mohegan Sun | 2010 and 2011 |
NAPT Main Event
The most recent Main Event was a $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em tournament with a $3,000,000 guarantee, and it beat that guarantee by about $579,000.
| Detail | NAPT Las Vegas 2025 Main Event |
| Dates | 6–12 November 2025 |
| Buy-in | $5,300 |
| Guarantee | $3,000,000 |
| Game | No-Limit Hold’em |
| Starting stack | 30,000 chips |
| Day 1 flights | 3 |
| Re-entry | One re-entry per flight |
| Level length | 90 minutes in the later stages |
| Entries / prize pool | 738 / $3,579,300 |
The buy-in has moved around: $5,000 in 2010–2011, a much cheaper $1,650 when the tour relaunched in 2023, and $5,300 in 2024 and 2025.
What this means at the table. Ninety-minute levels are long by modern standards; many daily tournaments use 20 to 40 minutes. Longer levels mean more hands per blind level, so you can wait for spots instead of shoving out of desperation. Yifrach, mainly a cash-game player, told PokerNews the slow structure let him play it almost like a cash game. If you are a newer player, that kind of structure rewards patience and post-flop skill more than short-stack push-fold play.
NAPT past champions
Seven NAPT Main Events have been played. The 2023 relaunch drew the biggest field (1,095 entries), while 2024 produced the biggest prize pool ($4,340,750). Vanessa Selbst is the only player to win two.
| Year | Stop | Buy-in | Entries | Prize pool | Champion | Prize |
| 2025 | Las Vegas, Resorts World | $5,300 | 738 | $3,579,300 | Gal Yifrach (USA) | $543,025 |
| 2024 | Las Vegas, Resorts World | $5,300 | 895 | $4,340,750 | Nick Marchington (England) | $765,200 |
| 2023 | Las Vegas, Resorts World | $1,650 | 1,095 | $1,609,650 | Sami Bechahed (USA) | $268,945 |
| 2011 | Uncasville, Mohegan Sun | $5,000 | 387 | $1,764,330 | Vanessa Selbst (USA) | $450,000 |
| 2010 (Nov) | Los Angeles | $5,000 | 701 | $3,229,857 | Joe Tehan (USA) | $725,000 |
| 2010 (Apr) | Uncasville, Mohegan Sun | $5,000 | 716 | $3,365,200 | Vanessa Selbst (USA) | $750,000 |
| 2010 (Feb) | Las Vegas, The Venetian | $5,000 | 872 | $4,017,740 | Tom Marchese (USA) | $827,648 |
Source for pre-2023 rows: Wikipedia’s NAPT results record, which cites contemporary Card Player and PokerNews reports. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Events of 2010 and 2011 (won by Harrison Gimbel and Galen Hall) were also listed under the NAPT season schedule but are usually counted as PCA titles.
What the numbers say. The 2023 field was huge because the buy-in was under a third of the usual price. When the buy-in rose to $5,300, the field shrank, but the prize pool nearly tripled. In 2025 the field dipped again, to 738 entries.
NAPT venues
The NAPT has held Main Events at four locations across three US cities. Resorts World Las Vegas hosted every revival stop.
| Location | City | NAPT years | Status today |
| Resorts World Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV | 2023, 2024, 2025 | Poker room closed 30 March 2026 |
| Mohegan Sun | Uncasville, CT | 2010, 2011 | Not on the NAPT schedule |
| Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | 2010 | Not on the NAPT schedule |
| The Venetian | Las Vegas, NV | 2010 | Not on the NAPT schedule |
Why Las Vegas in November made sense: the slot sat just before the WPT World Championship and WSOP Paradise in December, so many travelling pros could stack the trips.
How players qualified for the NAPT
When the tour last ran, most qualifiers came through the online “Path to NAPT” on PokerStars US and PokerStars Ontario, which worked like a staircase:
1. Start in a $0.50 Spin & Go.
2. Climb through step satellites, each one buying a ticket to the next.
3. Reach the $1,000 top-step satellite, where roughly one in ten players won a $10,000 Gold Pass.
In 2024 the Gold Pass covered the $5,300 Main Event buy-in, $2,900 for the hotel and $1,800 for travel and expenses. Seats were also handed out through live satellites at Resorts World, ambassador meet-up cash games, and even FanDuel fantasy sports contests.
Practical tip. The ladder made sense mainly for players who could not justify a $5,300 buy-in. Starting at the bottom costs very little, but it takes many sessions. If you are bankrolled for $1,000 shots, skipping straight to the top step saves a lot of time. There is no NAPT event to qualify for right now, but PokerStars US now runs on FanDuel and says it still offers online qualifiers for its US live events, so check the FanDuel poker lobby for PokerStars Open qualifiers.
NAPT side events and formats
The 2025 festival ran from 3 to 12 November with buy-ins from $330 up to $50,000, so there was something for almost every bankroll.
| Format | 2025 buy-in | Who it suits |
| Super High Roller | $50,000 | Elite pros; the first $50K event in NAPT history |
| PLO High Roller | $25,000 | High-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha specialists |
| High Roller | $10,300 | Regular high-stakes tournament players |
| NAPT Main Event | $5,300 | The flagship; deep structure, multiple Day 1s |
| PokerStars Open | $1,100 | Mid-stakes players; $500,000 guaranteed |
| Mystery Bounty | $550 | Recreational players who enjoy hidden bounty prizes |
| Women’s High Roller / Women’s Event | $1,100 / $330 | Women-only fields at two price points |
For first-timers: a Mystery Bounty pays you for each player you knock out, but you do not know the bounty’s value until you open it. It adds a lottery-like thrill and means even a short run can pay well.
Latest NAPT news
No NAPT Las Vegas in 2026
A PokerStars spokesperson confirmed to Card Player on 10 July 2026 that the November 2026 stop would not run. PokerStars said it looks forward to bringing players “larger scale events in the future,” but gave no dates, and the tour has not been formally retired.
What changed in 2026
PokerStars’ stated focus: FanDuel. PokerStars said it is concentrating on building its US platform on FanDuel, a sister brand under Flutter. In March 2026 it moved its US poker client onto FanDuel and merged the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan player pools.
The venue situation. Resorts World Las Vegas, which hosted every revival stop, closed its 29-table poker room on 30 March 2026. The NAPT festivals were held in the resort’s convention space rather than the poker room, and PokerStars has not cited the closure as a reason. No new NAPT venue has been named.
Wider cost-cutting. Around the same time, PokerStars began layoff consultations affecting its hubs in Canada, Europe, the UK and Ireland. PokerStars has not linked these to the NAPT decision.
NAPT news timeline
| Date | What happened |
| 10 Jul 2026 | PokerStars confirms no NAPT Las Vegas in 2026; focus shifts to FanDuel |
| 30 Mar 2026 | Resorts World Las Vegas closes its poker room |
| Mar 2026 | PokerStars US poker moves onto FanDuel; PA, NJ and MI player pools merge |
| Mar 2026 | Michael Linster wins PokerStars Open Philadelphia ($126,705) |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Gal Yifrach wins the NAPT Las Vegas Main Event ($543,025) |
| 7 Nov 2025 | Stephen Chidwick wins the first $50K NAPT Super High Roller |
NAPT Poker Tour: What to Know Now
The North American Poker Tour has a unique history, from its original 2010–2011 run to its return at Resorts World Las Vegas in 2023. The latest NAPT Main Event was won by Gal Yifrach in 2025, but there is currently no NAPT Las Vegas event scheduled for 2026. PokerStars has not confirmed when the tour will return. For the latest NAPT schedule, results, winners and future announcements, check this page for updates.
FAQs
Is there an NAPT in 2026?
No NAPT Las Vegas event is scheduled for 2026. PokerStars confirmed in July 2026 that the November stop would not run, but it has not said the tour is finished for good.
Why was NAPT Las Vegas 2026 cancelled?
PokerStars said it is focusing on building its US platform on FanDuel. Its long-time host, Resorts World Las Vegas, also closed its poker room in March 2026.
Will the NAPT return in 2027?
Nothing is confirmed. PokerStars said it hopes to run larger live events in the future, and a Las Vegas return would likely need a new casino partner.
Who won the last NAPT Main Event?
Gal Yifrach won the 2025 NAPT Las Vegas Main Event for $543,025, beating a 738-entry field after a heads-up deal with Thomas Boivin.
How much was the NAPT Main Event buy-in?
$5,300 in 2024 and 2025, with a $3,000,000 guarantee. It was $1,650 in 2023 and $5,000 in 2010–2011.
Where was the NAPT held?
At Resorts World Las Vegas from 2023 to 2025. The original tour visited The Venetian in Las Vegas, Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and Los Angeles.
Who has won the most NAPT Main Events?
Vanessa Selbst, with back-to-back titles at Mohegan Sun in 2010 and 2011.
