https://wptdownload.com/players/sami-bechahed/ Recent content in Sami Bechahed on WPT Global App Download Hugo en-us Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:02:57 +0000 https://wptdownload.com/poker-players/202401/sami_bachhid/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:02:57 +0000 https://wptdownload.com/poker-players/202401/sami_bachhid/ <h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Sami Bechahed is a French-American poker player and dealer, best known for winning the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Main Event in 2023.</p> <p>Bechahed, who works part-time as a dealer on <em>Hustler Casino Live</em>, defeated a 1,095-entry field to win $268,945 and the title of first NAPT champion in 12 years.</p> <p>After winning the NAPT Main Event, Bechahed said he would keep his dealing job.</p> <p>I will never do poker full time, ever. I dont need the stress of the downswings, he told <em>PokerNews</em>. I like to have my little dealing job, and it keeps me in poker. Im always thinking poker, whether Im at work or when Im playing.</p> https://wptdownload.com/news/202312/top_stories_of_2023_8_the_return_of_the_pokerstars_napt/ Sun, 24 Dec 2023 21:35:44 +0000 https://wptdownload.com/news/202312/top_stories_of_2023_8_the_return_of_the_pokerstars_napt/ <p>Twelve years is a long time in any industry, let alone in poker.</p> <p>But after more than a decade, 2023 saw the return of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT). Announced by PokerStars in August this year it marked the triumphant return of the PokerStars live brand to the United States.</p> <p>Sure there had been Road to PSPC in 2019, and the PokerStars Summer Series held in Philadelphia earlier this year, but the NAPT felt like much more of a statement.</p> https://wptdownload.com/news/202311/poker_dealer_soon_to_be_father_sami_bechahed_wins_pokerstars_napt_main_event_268_945/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 06:00:33 +0000 https://wptdownload.com/news/202311/poker_dealer_soon_to_be_father_sami_bechahed_wins_pokerstars_napt_main_event_268_945/ <p>The PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas $1,650 Main Event wrapped up at Resorts World Las Vegas on Saturday. The final seven players from a 1,095-entry field returned to battle it out at a live-streamed final table, and after eight hours of play, it was poker dealer Sami Bechahed, whose wife is nine months pregnant, emerging victorious to claim a $268,945 top prize and the first NAPT Main Event title in 12 years!</p>