Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst accomplished the unthinkable Wednesday night, capturing the 2011 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event title to become the first and only player with multiple NAPT titles to her name.

"For some reason, Connecticut and poker agrees with me," said Selbst. "It's so incredible, I can't even describe it. Every time I leave law school to go and play a poker tournament, I have a joke that my friends expect me to win because I've literally just won every tournament that I've played in Connecticut the past two years."

Selbst topped a 387-player field en route to claiming her second NAPT Mohegan Sun title and $450,000 in prize money.   Asked how the repeat victory feels in comparison to the first, Selbst said: "I have no words to describe how I feel right now. To be able to defend the title is amazing. They both meant tremendous things for different reasons, but this (the repeat) is really, really important to me."

Selbst overcame a significant chip disadvantage when play reached the heads-up stage. Runner-up Dan Shak owned roughly 74% of the chips in play; Selbst, the rest. Midway through the heads-up match, Selbst flopped a set of kings in a pivotal hand that gave her the chip lead, and from there, she never looked back.

 Shak, a 51-year-old trader from New York, NY, collected $254,000 in prize money for his runner-up finish.  Notably, Joe Tehan also reached the final table of the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event with a chance to, like Selbst, become the first player to win multiple NAPT Main Event titles. The 30-year-old professional poker player from Las Vegas, NV won the 2010 NAPT Los Angeles Main Event last November ($725,000). Tehan was eliminated in sixth place ($70,000) by fourth place finisher Thomas Hoglund Jr. ($120,000).  Twenty-one-year-old Tyler Kenney, brother of well-known high stakes cash game pro Bryn Kenney, began the final table with the chip lead, but ultimately made his exit in third place, collecting $170,000 in prize money -- the largest tournament cash of his young career.  The 2011 NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event attracted 387 players, generating a prizepool worth more than $1.7 million USD.

Team PokerStars Pros Victor Ramdin (USA) and Greg DeBora (Canada) both cashed in the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event. Ramdin finished 31st ($10,500) and DeBora 49th ($7,500).  Other notable money winners include Jacobo Fernandez (11th - $21,000), Nenad Medic (15th - $14,000), Olivier Busquet (17th - $12,000), Eric Froehlich (23rd - $12,000), Adam Junglen (29th - $10,500), Lee Markholt (42nd - $7,500) and last year's NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event runner-up Mike Beasley (56th - $7,500).

Team PokerStars was also represented by Chris Moneymaker (USA), Daniel Negreanu (Canada), Vanessa Rousso (USA), Barry Greenstein (USA), Jonathan Duhamel (Canada), Joe Cada (USA), David Williams (USA), Eugene Katchalov (Ukraine), Jason Mercier (USA), Pat Pezzin (Canada), Bill Chen (Friend of PokerStars) and George Lind III, Andrew Brokos and Kevin Thurman, all members of Team Online.

1: Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst - $450,000
2: Dan Shak - $254,000
3: Tyler Kenney - $170,000
4: Thomas Hoglund Jr. - $120,000
5: Vincent Rubianes - $90,000
6: Joe Tehan - $70,000
7: Aaron Overton - $50,000
8: Steve O'Dwyer - $32,330