With seven to go, Sami Bechahed headed into the final day with the chip lead and a stack worth 10.5M. The final nine featured Nick Schulman, Sergio Aido, Jonathan Borenstein, David Coleman, Ping Liu, Sami Bechahed, Sandeep Pallampati, Anthony Dianaty, and Ryan Leng. Aaron Massey, Liran Betito, Je Wook Oh, Ryan Yu, Tim Rutherford, David Jackson, Noah Bronstein, Mitch Halverson, Scott Ball, Joe Tehan, Parker Talbot, Benny Chen, Lily Lofty, Chad Brewer, Brandon Cantu, Landon Tice, Kyna England, Samuel Laskowitz, Anthony Zinno, John Morgan, David Williams, Anthony Marquez, OD David Baker, Matt Salsberg, Curt Kohlberg, Jeremy Eyer, Mark Seif, Eric Baldwin, Jared Jaffee, Maria Konnikova, Faraz Jaka, David Peters, Shannon Shorr, Chris Moorman, and Matt Affleck. Among the notables who went deep and cashed in the Main Event included. 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.

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