The North American Poker Tour is in full swing and Vanessa Selbst has managed to take over the chip lead. The American poker pro, a member of Team PokerStars and last year’s winner of the NAPT which is traditionally held at the Mohegan Sun casino has a prize studded history, having made it to five final tables at the WSOP in which competition she recorded seven cashes to date. Last year, she managed to win over a million Euros at the Partouche Poker Tour. Now she is amongst the 24 survivors in the NAPT at the end of which is a pot worth 1,406,000. Vanessa Selbst is now defending last year’s title against several rival still alive who include Dan Shak, Nenad Medic, Jacobo Fernandez, Adam Geyer, Steve O’Dwyer, Eric Froehlich, and Olivier Busquet.