The prize pool was worth $1.6 million, with nearly $269K set aside to the eventual champion. The $1,650 NAPT Las Vegas Main Event drew in 1,095 entrants. Laskowitz outgunned a final table that included Shannon Shorr, Jesse Lonis, John Riordan, John Andress, Alexander Condon, Nadya Magnus, and Luke Graham Samuel Laskowitz took it down for a score worth $180,850. They generated a prize pool worth $727,500. The $5,300 buy-in NAPT Las Vegas High Rollerhad a field consisting of 150 runners. Jesse Lonis was the last player standing and he banked $174,550 for outlasting a final table that included David Stamm, Sergio Aido, Richard Green, Sam Soverel, and Jim Collopy. The $10,300 buy-in NAPT Las Vegas High Rollerattracted 59 entrants and a prize pool wort $572K. The NAPT Las Vegas scheduled featured numerous events including a couple of high rollers.
It was fitting that PokerStars hosted the triumphant return of the NAPT in Sin City at the swanky Resorts World Casino on the Strip. It took over a dozen years, but the North American Poker Tour returned to American soil.
