Wednesday, March 16, 2011

YouTube video: Matt Berkey interview

Matt Berkey is interviewed by tournament director Matt Savage as the players had just hit the money in the 2011 WPT $10k Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament

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YouTube video: Steve "Chainsaw" Dempsey interview

Steve "Chainsaw" Dempsey is interviewed by tournament director Matt Savage as the players had just hit the money in the 2011 WPT $10k Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament

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Redrawing at 36 for 6-handed tables


With the elimination of the 37th player, the clock has been paused, and the remaining 36 players will now be redrawn into six 6-handed tables.  All remaining players are now guaranteed $18,400, with the pay jumps coming at every six eliminations.  We have a new featured table with Ty Reiman, JJ Liu, and Dan "KingDan" Smith.

YouTube video: Dan "KingDan" Smith interview

Dan "KingDan" Smith is interviewed by tournament director Matt Savage as the players had just hit the money in the 2011 WPT $10k Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament

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YouTube video: Layne Flack: bubble boy

Layne Flack was all in preflop holding pocket jacks against his opponent's AK. When his opponent hit a king on the river, Layne became the official bubble boy of the 2011 WPT Shooting Stars tournament

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Players are now in the money


With 46 players left in the tournament, play had gone hand for hand.  There had been a few allins, but no eliminations yet.  On table 23, a player had raised and Matt Berkey had called before Layne Flack moved all in.  The original raiser folded, and Matt called, tabling AK.  It was a race as Layne had pocket jacks.  The board ran out clean until a king hit the river, making Layne Flack the official bubble boy.  The day wasn't all bad for Layne, however, as he banked $15,000 for eliminating three bounties.  All remaining players are now guaranteed $15,000, with 1st place paying $1,013,500 + $25,500 WPT seat.

Jen Harman makes a good read


Jen Harman has had a few ups and downs today, and unfortunately her most recent hand was one of the latter.  Jen had 3-bet preflop before Joris Springael cold 4-bet.  Jen called, and the flop fell ace-ten-ten.  Both players checked, and a third ten came on the turn.  Joris check-called Jen's bet, and they both saw a jack fall on the river.  Joris checked one more time, and after thinking for a bit, Jen checked behind.  Jen showed AQ for a full house, tens full of aces, but Joris had rivered the best hand as he held pocket jacks for jacks full of tens.  Jen was unlucky to have her opponent hit a 2-outer on the river, but she had a great check to keep her in the tournament right outside of the money bubble.

20k or 120k?

 

Some controversy broke out on table 23 when Layne Flack (above right) checked the river and Matt Berkey (above left) bet.  Matt had bet "120" dark before the river hit for 120,000, but Layne had thought the bet was 20,000.  Layne called, but a floor had to be called over to decide the bet amount.  A few players at the table all chimed in that they heard "120," as did a few members of the media.  Tournament director Matt Savage ruled the bet 120,000, and Layne was forced to put most of his chips in the middle.  Layne had top pair, top kicker with his AK, but Matt had made a straight.  Layne is left crippled with approximately 50,000, and is very steamed at the decision.  With the blinds at 2k/4k, it is anticipated that Layne will be all in a few times before the end of this level.

Lots of chips on the featured table!



The featured table has been a wrecking ground for players today, and before the dinner break began, Jonathan Little busted out, making way for three new players to come to the table, including Shooting Star bounty Jennifer Harman.  53 players remain in the tournament, and the top 45 pay.  There is a total of 12.45 million chips in play among the six remaining tables, and the featured table has a whopping 3.855 million on it, or almost 31% of the total chips in play.  You can watch the live stream when the players return from dinner break at 7:10pm by clicking on "Watch LIVE" Video at the top of this page.  Here are the players seated here and their respective chip counts:

Seat 1 - Jennifer Harman - 243,000
Seat 2 - Andrew Weisner - 434,000
Seat 3 - Joris Springael - 475,000
Seat 4 - Josh "JJProdigy" Field - 274,000
Seat 5 - Gary Tighe - 239,000
Seat 6 - Vivek Rajkumar - 572,500
Seat 7 - Galen Hall - 698,500
Seat 8 - Steve "Chainsaw" Dempsey - 480,000
Seat 9 - Brian Schmidt - 439,500

Photo blog: Chip leaders

Vivek Rajkumar

Zackary Clark

Andrew Weisner

YouTube video: Kara Scott doubles up

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Photo blog: Day 2 bounties

2011 champion McLean Karr (right) was eliminated by Layne Flack (left)


Phil Hellmuth (left) was eliminated by Vivek Rajkumar (right)



Daniel Negreanu (left) was eliminated by Andrew Weisner (right)


Dwyte Pilgrim (left) was eliminated by Richard Woodall (right)

Gavin Smith (right)

Nam Le (right)

Men "The Master" Nguyen

 Howard Lederer (right)


Jason Mercier (left)

 David Williams (right) was eliminated by Eric Blair (left)

Day 2 - Cards are in the air

The bell has run and cards are now in the air for Day 2 of the Bay 101 $10k WPT Shooting Star tournament.  169 players remain, and but they are still quite a bit away from the 45 players that will make the money.  Tournament director Matt Savage has just announced that the plan is to play down to 24 players today.  The levels will be 90 minutes as opposed to Day 1's 60 minutes, and the blinds will start at 600/12000 with a 200 ante.

You can watch our featured table by clicking on "Watch LIVE Video" at the top of this page.  Here are the players at that table:


SEAT FIRST LAST CHIP COUNT
1 Ryan Hughes 83,300
2 Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier 62,200
3 Andrew Seidman 107,600
4 Andras Nemeth 32,200
5 Phil Hellmuth 19,800
6 Vivek Rajkumar 70,200
7 Galen Hall 94,300
8 Nicholas  Rainey 73,600
9 Roger Teska 120,800

Day 2 chip counts & seating assignments

PLACE FIRST LAST CHIP COUNT TABLE SEAT
1 Chris Trapani 197,900 31 7
2 Joris Srpingael 196,500 37 1
3 Brian Schmidt 187,700 25 8
4 David "Doc" Sands 175,000 24 7
5 Justin Young 165,800 30 2
6 Eric Moore 160,100 28 1
7 Brandon Crawford 158,600 23 1
8 Randy Dorfman 156,500 26 4
9 Shannon Shorr 147,300 34 4
10 Steven "Chainsaw" Dempsey 145,400 35 7
11 Benjamin Hamnett 141,100 23 8
12 Kara Scott Tobin 137,100 26 5
13 Mehrdad Nouralishahi 136,000 33 6
14 Zachary Clark 135,600 37 4
15 David Ong 135,500 26 2
16 Eric Blair 134,600 34 6
17 Tyler Cornell 133,600 42 3
18 Chris Ferguson 133,200 41 5
19 Layne Flack 131,300 33 2
20 Danny Smith 130,100 41 6
21 Mike Matusow 127,200 42 5
22 Hafiz Khan 126,500 35 4
23 Richard Toth 126,200 28 7
24 Alan Sternberg 125,300 36 4
25 Owen Crowe 125,000 24 1
26 Jordan Young 121,700 32 1
27 Roger Teska 120,800 22 9
28 Eric Froehlich 120,500 32 7
29 Kyle Julius 120,400 29 2
30 John Monnette 119,400 25 1
31 Tyler Reiman 118,800 26 8
32 Daniel Smith 116,200 25 6
33 Taylor  Raines 116,100 43 1
34 Bryan Paris 115,500 28 4
35 Minh Nguyen 115,200 28 2
36 Marton Czuczor 114,200 31 2
37 Shawn Lawrence 110,800 41 1
38 Gary Miceli 109,900 33 7
39 Andrew Weisner 109,700 28 6
40 Hung "Peter" Tran 108,500 43 8
41 Andrew Seidman 107,600 22 3
42 Edmond Genovese 104,300 42 9
43 Romik Vartzar 103,100 41 8
44 Gary Tighe 102,900 37 9
45 Kfir Nahum 101,800 27 1
46 Jonathan Little 100,100 41 2
47 Randy Gil 98,700 30 9
48 Jesse Rockwitz 98,700 33 9
49 Brandon Cantu 98,400 23 6
50 Ronald Li 95,500 29 8
51 Ahmad Palang Atiqi 95,400 30 3
52 Galen Hall 94,300 22 7
53 Michael Benvenuti 92,000 42 4
54 Casey McCarrel 91,400 43 4
55 Marco Johnson 89,700 42 7
56 Yevgeniy Timoshenko 87,600 23 5
57 David Forster 87,300 25 9
58 John Juanda 86,200 30 5
59 Gavin Smith 84,500 34 5
60 Rudy Blondeau 83,800 24 9
61 Tam Nguyen 83,700 34 7
62 Mike Sexton 83,600 24 5
63 Ryan Hughes 83,300 22 1
64 Joanne "JJ" Liu 82,900 23 9
65 Richard Harroch 80,400 41 4
66 Lorenzo Sabato 78,500 26 6
67 Chau Vu 78,400 28 3
68 Steven Kelly 77,700 34 9
69 Tuan Nguyen 77,500 32 8
70 Noah Lathrop 76,000 43 9
71 Ryan Schmidt 76,000 32 9
72 Tommy Chen 75,500 26 9
73 Dash Dudley 75,000 24 6
74 Lu Wang 74,100 23 2
75 Nicholas  Rainey 73,600 22 8
76 Dan Santoro 71,800 33 3
77 Mark Dickstein 70,600 37 8
78 Frederick "Sage" Clayton 70,500 31 1
79 Pat Pezzin 70,300 27 8
80 Vivek Rajkumar 70,200 22 6
81 Marcos Neves Da Silva 68,200 30 4
82 Robert Thompson 67,300 42 2
83 Jaime Guizar 66,900 36 7
84 Lee Markholt 65,900 34 8
85 Scott Lipshutz 65,700 26 3
86 McLean Karr 65,500 33 5
87 David Peters 65,000 36 6
88 Daniel Negreanu 64,100 28 5
89 Kathy Liebert 63,900 25 5
90 Jennifer Harman 62,800 27 5
91 Alex Keating 62,500 23 7
92 John Velasquez 62,300 24 3
93 Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier 62,200 22 2
94 Matt Berkey 62,000 30 7
95 Hoyt Corkins 61,600 37 5
96 Nicklas Alf 61,500 35 1
97 Michael Kucinski 61,500 33 1
98 David Williams 60,500 31 5
99 Jason Wheeler 60,400 29 9
100 Howard Lederer 57,500 43 5
101 Alex Yi 57,200 31 8
102 Daniel O'Brien 56,700 29 3
103 Michael  Pesek 55,900 28 8
104 Francesco Conte 55,500 43 2
105 Yardena Zilberstein 55,400 27 2
106 Brian Park 55,100 34 1
107 Steve Brecher 53,400 24 8
108 Toto Leonidas 51,000 41 3
109 Dwyte Pilgrim 50,200 29 5
110 Chanh Pham 49,100 43 6
111 Quinn Do 47,900 35 6
112 Todd Terry 47,600 37 3
113 Yelena Vaysberg 47,500 28 9
114 Andy Gamboa 46,900 29 4
115 Travis Carson 46,600 42 6
116 Tahir Ahmad 46,400 43 3
117 John Pires 46,000 35 8
118 Giovanni Sigurta 46,000 27 4
119 Nam Le 45,600 32 5
120 Chris McCormack 45,000 36 3
121 Thor Hansen 42,600 26 7
122 Pat Walsh 41,600 37 6
123 Gustavo Eydelsteyn 40,400 30 8
124 Guy Hudas 39,500 25 7
125 Brandon Steven 38,700 29 1
126 Kenneth Go 37,900 32 2
127 Mark Randal Flowers 35,900 32 3
128 Greg Sessler 35,800 25 3
129 Jerry Chea 33,900 36 1
130 Men "The Master" Nguyen 33,900 36 5
131 Matt Affleck 32,700 27 9
132 Weikai Chang 32,600 23 3
133 Joshua Field 32,400 27 3
134 Andras Nemeth 32,200 22 4
135 Stephen O'Dwyer 31,500 32 6
136 Michael Amigleo 30,800 31 3
137 Richard Woodall 30,600 29 6
138 Lauren Kling 30,400 37 7
139 Luke Nettles 29,300 23 4
140 Grantland Hillman 29,200 26 1
141 Shawn Buchanan 28,300 32 4
142 Eric Nichelson 27,900 36 9
143 Patrick Mahoney 26,900 35 3
144 Marko Trapani, Jr. 26,000 31 9
145 Kevin MacPhee 25,600 24 4
146 Ynesa Paberzs 25,200 29 7
147 Salim Batshon 25,100 25 4
148 Tom Sego 25,000 33 8
149 Neil Webber 24,500 33 4
150 Daniel Gelbinovich 23,100 35 2
151 Jason Dollinger 22,900 36 8
152 Ryan Milisits 22,400 35 9
153 Jason Mercier 21,300 35 5
154 Brandon Meyer 21,300 43 7
155 James Carroll 20,600 27 6
156 David Frazee 20,600 42 8
157 Zach Hyman 20,500 30 1
158 Andrew Forslind 20,000 34 2
159 Phil Hellmuth 19,800 22 5
160 Surinder Singh 19,500 24 2
161 Bata Davidovic 19,300 42 1
162 Nathan Szoke 19,300 31 6
163 Stella Su 17,000 36 2
164 Bob Campbell 16,500 25 2
165 Bryan Leskowitz 16,100 31 4
166 Ben Palmer 15,500 30 6
167 Lanini Davor 13,900 37 2
168 Payman Arjang 13,100 41 7
169 David Gonzalez 10,300 27 7
170 Jimmy Viglizzo 9,200 41 9