National Deaf Poker Tour

November 10-11 Weekend
By Anthony LoBue
I had been waiting the NDPT Atlantic City weekend to come all year, as I had previously attended the NDPT tournament in March 2007. Due to previous obligations I was unable to attend the Midwest Regional Poker tournament at Harrah’s, and the NDPT at Las Vegas. I was thrilled when [...]

Friday Night Ladies Event (40 participants)

Lori Hower $990
Christine Parrotte $550
Christie Sharp $330
Barbara Servalli $220
Sheri Muir $110
Melissa Daudier
Jerilyn Winegard
Tomeka King
Karen Kennedy
Meg Brown

Friday Night Hold ‘Em Madness (83 participants)

Brad Gibson $2490
Mark Panella $1431
Eric Dubow $747
Michael Coppage $435
Molly O’Hara $342
Leo Bourgeois $280
Art Tellander $217
Sung Park $155
Jason Klein $128

Saturday NDPT Main Event (162 participants)

Jonathan Barnes $9,875
Felix Ramirez $5,184
Ryan Leon [...]

Jonathan Barnes – Main Event Champion
Lori Hower – Ladies Event Champion

I swear, everywhere I go, there is a Deaf Texas Hold ‘em game going on!
By Greg Randall
I went to Montreal, a city where they didn’t speak English or sign ASL and I found a Deaf Texas Hold ‘em game. I found them at Deaf Weddings too. Said the bride to the groom on their wedding [...]

Hello Everyone!
It’s October and we have two and half weeks to go before our Atlantic City weekend kicks off!
Here’s the current point standings from Las Vegas. We have THREE more tournaments to go before we crown the winner for 2007-2008 season. So that means two more tournaments in Atlantic City and one more in Las [...]

Hello Everyone!
Wanted to give you an update on our upcoming NDPT event at Taj Mahal on November 9th and 10th.
There will be FOUR events that weekend to choose from.
Friday November 9

Deaf Ladies$75 buy-in8PM
NDPT Texas Hold ‘Em Madness$100 buy inTime: 9:30 PM

Saturday November 10

NDPT Main Event$200 buy-in11:15AM
ASL Event$120 buy-in6PM

 
Hotel Information
Trump has set aside a block of [...]

You can view pictures from our last event in Las Vegas back in July here
Here’s a sample few for your viewing:

By Greg Randall

With tremendous excitement in the air, 94 deaf poker players met at the Venetian in Las Vegas for the prestigious NDPT Main Event. The southwest made a nice showing but every corner of USA had representatives and a player has come from as far as Montreal, Quebec to represent Canada! Two past [...]

July 28 – Main Event
Another great event! 94 people participated and had a blast.
We have a new first, Judy Kim was the first female to win the NDPT main event.

1st $5143 Judy Kim CA
2nd $2858 Pat Kinast TX
3rd $1572 Greg Sassounian CA
4th $1143 Elijah Gold DC
5th $1000 Charles Barham CA
6th $857 Tom Parker NV
7th $714 [...]

July 27 – Deaf Ladies Event
Deaf Ladies was a success! 33 ladies played started 830pm, was over around 2am.
Here are the results:

$689 Sandra Dedios CA
$518 Meredith Kiss IL
$345 Leslie Salinestyles CA
$173 Robin Shay IN
Mara Ladines CA
Julia Harrod

Photo: Sandra Dedios