| FIRST | LAST | CHIP COUNT | TABLE | SEAT |
| Bryce | Yockey | 245,300 | 32 | 2 |
| Brandon | Wong | 195,600 | 35 | 6 |
| Christ | Summers | 188,200 | 33 | 4 |
| Shannon | Shorr | 183,400 | 27 | 7 |
| Taylor | Van Kriegenberg | 181,300 | 35 | 8 |
| Amir | Khaziri | 177,700 | 34 | 8 |
| May | Silver | 155,200 | 25 | 6 |
| Pete | Nguyen | 148,800 | 33 | 3 |
| David | Peters | 142,100 | 29 | 6 |
| Neil | Blumenfield | 139,400 | 30 | 8 |
| Scott | Baumstein | 133,600 | 36 | 6 |
| Kent | Washington | 131,000 | 32 | 1 |
| Michael | Mizrachi | 129,900 | 35 | 5 |
| Erik | Cajelais | 128,900 | 36 | 3 |
| Andrew | Watson | 128,800 | 33 | 6 |
| Vanessa | Selbst | 125,400 | 29 | 5 |
| Allen | Cunningham | 122,200 | 23 | 5 |
| Mike | McClain | 121,800 | 37 | 2 |
| Haroun | Dalaig | 119,200 | 36 | 7 |
| Mike | Harvey | 117,400 | 30 | 4 |
| Leland | Neal | 115,500 | 32 | 6 |
| Moon | Kim | 114,800 | 34 | 2 |
| J.C. | Tran | 114,300 | 34 | 5 |
| Andrew | Sakai | 113,100 | 36 | 2 |
| Tommy | Vedes | 111,000 | 30 | 2 |
| Nicholas | Grippo | 110,800 | 22 | 1 |
| Dzung | Nguyen | 110,000 | 23 | 3 |
| Christian | Harder | 107,700 | 35 | 1 |
| Stephen | Chidwick | 107,000 | 28 | 1 |
| Michael | Aron | 104,600 | 36 | 4 |
| Gary | Tighe | 102,800 | 24 | 6 |
| Jonathan | Duhamel | 102,200 | 22 | 8 |
| Jonathan | Little | 101,100 | 24 | 8 |
| Cheryl | Svenson | 99,800 | 23 | 9 |
| Robert | Fox | 99,800 | 29 | 8 |
| Brian | Park | 98,900 | 37 | 8 |
| Danny | Qutami | 97,300 | 34 | 4 |
| Grantland | Hillman | 97,000 | 29 | 7 |
| Layne | Flack | 96,900 | 28 | 3 |
| Danny | Le | 95,700 | 30 | 6 |
| Joseph | Elpayoa | 95,100 | 27 | 8 |
| Paul | Richardson | 95,000 | 30 | 9 |
| Josh | Bergman | 93,200 | 28 | 6 |
| Kevin | McGowan | 91,600 | 27 | 4 |
| Joe | Serock | 90,800 | 32 | 7 |
| Cliff | Lee | 89,800 | 33 | 7 |
| Josh | Arieh | 88,400 | 33 | 1 |
| Kevin | Nguyen | 88,200 | 32 | 3 |
| Marvin | Rettenmaier | 87,200 | 32 | 5 |
| David | Pham | 86,300 | 26 | 1 |
| Narendra | Banwari | 86,000 | 36 | 9 |
| Ronald | Lee | 84,100 | 22 | 3 |
| Mike | Matusow | 83,800 | 24 | 5 |
| Shawn | Buchanan | 83,600 | 34 | 1 |
| Owais | Ahmed | 82,300 | 27 | 1 |
| Alexandru | Gorevich | 82,200 | 26 | 8 |
| JJ | Liu | 81,400 | 36 | 8 |
| Men | Nguyen | 80,600 | 30 | 5 |
| John | Clenney | 79,600 | 22 | 9 |
| Jim | Collopy | 79,400 | 41 | 2 |
| Fabrice | Soulier | 78,300 | 36 | 5 |
| Ron | Burke | 78,000 | 24 | 9 |
| Mario | Delis | 77,700 | 28 | 4 |
| Ben | May | 77,600 | 32 | 8 |
| Billy | DeRego | 76,400 | 35 | 7 |
| Linda | Johnson | 76,000 | 25 | 5 |
| Darren | Elias | 73,800 | 37 | 9 |
| Henry | So | 73,700 | 37 | 4 |
| Eric | Nickelson | 73,400 | 31 | 4 |
| Marko | Trapani | 72,900 | 35 | 2 |
| Nghia | Chu | 71,100 | 34 | 6 |
| Marco | Johnson | 70,500 | 23 | 1 |
| Sacain | Hudi | 70,400 | 27 | 9 |
| Ryan | Lawrence | 68,700 | 26 | 2 |
| Anthony | Ajlouny | 66,600 | 27 | 2 |
| Adam | Geyer | 63,900 | 35 | 9 |
| Bruce | Kramer | 62,500 | 24 | 7 |
| Thomas | Marchese | 62,000 | 25 | 1 |
| Kathy | Liebert | 61,500 | 26 | 5 |
| David | Williams | 61,200 | 27 | 5 |
| Tu | Van Dinm | 60,900 | 41 | 7 |
| Tyler | Patterson | 59,600 | 29 | 9 |
| Dan | Shak | 59,100 | 29 | 2 |
| Jeff | Sluzinski | 58,900 | 37 | 7 |
| Ubaid | Habib | 58,200 | 28 | 9 |
| Gabe | Walls | 57,800 | 24 | 2 |
| Matt | Keikon | 57,400 | 41 | 9 |
| Kevin | O'Donnell | 57,200 | 41 | 8 |
| Scott | Seiver | 56,500 | 41 | 5 |
| Eli | Beg | 56,200 | 41 | 4 |
| Sean | Getzwiller | 56,100 | 35 | 3 |
| Brian | Brubaker | 55,400 | 28 | 8 |
| Nam | Lee | 54,800 | 28 | 5 |
| Tri | Huynh | 54,000 | 26 | 6 |
| Mike | Byrnes | 52,900 | 37 | 6 |
| David | Sands | 52,400 | 23 | 7 |
| Steven | Michaelis | 52,200 | 22 | 7 |
| Michael | Wywroc | 51,400 | 30 | 1 |
| Saurabh | Patel | 50,900 | 26 | 4 |
| Steve | Gross | 50,400 | 30 | 7 |
| Jimmy | Zeledon | 49,100 | 26 | 7 |
| Janet | Agonoy | 49,000 | 25 | 8 |
| Andrew | Badecker | 48,900 | 33 | 8 |
| Joe | Nguyen | 46,600 | 25 | 9 |
| Randy | Gil | 46,100 | 22 | 4 |
| Bertrand | Grospellier | 46,100 | 22 | 5 |
| Amir | Lehavot | 45,400 | 33 | 2 |
| Mike | LaBarbera | 44,400 | 23 | 8 |
| Chris | Swan | 43,700 | 27 | 3 |
| David | Marshall | 43,200 | 31 | 8 |
| Randy | Melton | 41,600 | 26 | 9 |
| Chau | Giang | 41,000 | 33 | 5 |
| James | Calderaro | 40,300 | 35 | 4 |
| Sameer | Aljawepi | 38,600 | 31 | 3 |
| David | Chow | 38,000 | 34 | 3 |
| Alexandru | Masek | 38,000 | 41 | 1 |
| Terrence | Byrnes | 37,200 | 31 | 2 |
| Antonio | Esfandiari | 35,300 | 31 | 5 |
| Larry | Odegard | 35,200 | 37 | 1 |
| Karthik | Sundaram | 35,100 | 28 | 2 |
| Scott | Eskenazi | 34,400 | 34 | 9 |
| Mike | Heshmati | 34,100 | 23 | 4 |
| Jake | Solis | 33,500 | 25 | 2 |
| Tam | Nguyen | 32,900 | 26 | 3 |
| Ngoc | Tran | 32,900 | 29 | 4 |
| Mark | Mosqueda | 32,700 | 33 | 9 |
| Evi Woong | Kim | 32,000 | 32 | 4 |
| Scott | Vener | 31,000 | 29 | 3 |
| David | Bertelsen | 30,400 | 41 | 6 |
| Todd | Terry | 30,300 | 34 | 7 |
| Tom | McCormick | 28,800 | 30 | 3 |
| Gavin | Griffin | 27,400 | 23 | 2 |
| Ian | Steinman | 27,200 | 24 | 3 |
| Steve | Silva | 26,200 | 22 | 6 |
| Kiran | Desai | 26,000 | 31 | 6 |
| Shayae | Heine | 23,000 | 23 | 6 |
| John | Davies | 22,600 | 25 | 7 |
| Philippe | Boucher | 21,500 | 25 | 4 |
| David | Miller | 20,500 | 31 | 9 |
| Mark | Violetti | 20,400 | 29 | 1 |
| Jason | Mercier | 20,300 | 37 | 5 |
| John | Zayas | 19,000 | 27 | 6 |
| Michael | Kamran | 18,000 | 31 | 1 |
| Dang | Kellsrvon | 16,900 | 37 | 3 |
| David | Frazee | 14,800 | 22 | 2 |
| Baltazar | Villa | 14,700 | 28 | 7 |
| Sakat | Botra | 13,500 | 24 | 4 |
| John | Nguyen | 13,300 | 32 | 9 |
| Pho | Tri | 11,200 | 31 | 7 |
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Day 2 Chip Counts (with seating assignments)
YouTube video: Michael Mizrachi makes a straight flush vs. Bertrand Grospellier
Michael Mizrachi is all-in late on Day 1b of the Bay 101 Shooting Star and doubles up in the biggest way against Bertrand Grospellier.
YouTube video: Jason Mercier Doubles Through David Sands
A short-stacked Jason Mercier doubles up through David Sands late on Day 1b of the Bay 101 Shooting Star.
Tweet from the End of Day 1b
After losing super sick hand to grinder's straight flush I managed to triple up with 88. Better than busto, I guess!
— Bertrand Grospellier (@elkypoker) March 7, 2012
Ended the day with 52k. Played the B+ game. Tough when you spending half the day gawking at the shooting stars. #maybeoneday
— David Doc Sands (@Doc_Sands) March 7, 2012
For those of you asking about the Q8 re-shove, the joy of busting @JasonMercier outweighs the potential to win 960k. #itsthatsimple
— David Doc Sands (@Doc_Sands) March 7, 2012
Day 1 in the books. Finished with 61,200. Happy with how I played especially my recover after set under set. Big day tomorrow. #wptBay101
— David Williams (@dwpoker) March 7, 2012
Ended with 55k.Got up to 75k, then lost a 55k pot then a few more down to 25k until I doubled with 88>TT.Avg is around 70k
— Brian Brubaker (@Bru009) March 7, 2012
30300 to end, profit on the day.25 BBs to start tomorrow.
— Todd Terry (@toddbterry) March 7, 2012
Finished day slightly above avg with $76K.
— Linda Johnson (@FirstLadyPoker) March 7, 2012
Ended day1 with 59600 and one bounty. Definitely a successful day.
— Tyler Patterson (@TylerPoker) March 7, 2012
Sick grind today, ended with 27.4k playing 600/1200/200 to start tomorrow
— Gavin Griffin (@NHGG) March 7, 2012
Bagged 111k day2 tomro #Bay101
— TommyVedes (@TommyVedes) March 7, 2012
Ended the day with 82k in chips...coming back to 600/1200 blinds, plenty of play left.
— Owais Ahmed (@oerockets) March 7, 2012
Ended the day with a good stack of 120k despite being my typical last hour donkey self.
— Allen Cunningham(@AllenCunningham) March 7, 2012
110k going to day2. Ridiculously tough table today. Should get alot better tomorrow. #bay101 #fb
— Nicholas Grippo (@Grippolio) March 7, 2012
finished day1 of @bay101casino main w/38k. Wish I could take 1 hand back but happy with the grind overall
— Alex Masek (@PujolsOfPokr) March 7, 2012
Play has completed for the day
After a huge pot on the featured table in which Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier doubled up, play has concluded for the night. Tournament staff are locating the chip leader to award him with the $10,000 prize, and the remaining 95 players are bagging and tagging their chips. They will combine with the players from Day 1a tomorrow at 10:45am PST, and they will play down to 36 players.
YouTube video: Erick Lindgren Eliminated from the Bay 101 Shooting Star
Erick Lindgren is eliminated from the 2012 Bay 101 Shooting Star on Day 1b.
YouTube video: Daniel Negreanu Doubles Through Dwyte Pilgrim
In the Bay 101 Shooting Star Charity Event, Daniel Negreanu doubles up through Dwyte Pilgrim with Phil Hellmuth on the microphone doing play by play.
YouTube video: Jen Harman Eliminated from the Bay 101 Shooting Star
I'm out. Had 2 queens against AQ and AJcould of tripled.Oh well
— Jennifer Harman (@REALJenHarman) March 7, 2012
Jen Harman is eliminated late on Day 1b of the Bay 101 Shooting Star.
Michael Mizrachi Joins the Live Stream Table
Michael Mizrachi
Michael Mizrachi has joined the live stream feature table in the eight seat.
You can watch live by going to Bay101live.com.
Players are now on break
Players are now on their last break of the evening while the tournament staff colors up and races off the 25 chips. There are 129 players remaining, and when they return they will be playing 400/800 blinds with a 100 ante. After that level, they will play the 500/1000 blind level and then bag up their chips for the night.
Jason Mercier And Styrofoam Go Heads Up
Jason Mercier has been chewing on a styrofoam cup all day, which has fascinated the Internet chat room for the live stream. We thought we'd bring you a couple photos of the famed styrofoam cup.
Master of multi-tasking, Jason chews on his cup, uses his phone, and talks to Dan O'Brien
Delicious!
You can see the bite marks
David "Doc" Sands has joined the featured table
Holding the magical "trips" seat card (table 22, seat 2), David "Docs" Sands has just joined our featured table. You can watch live by going to www.Bay101Live.com.
Got moved to live streaming table w @elkypoker, @JasonMercier, @Grippolio @xxl23 @floesknowshoes. Bay101live.com if you want to sweat
— David Doc Sands (@Doc_Sands) March 7, 2012
Prizepool & Payouts
Day 1a and Day 1b received a combined 364 entrants, creating a $3,458,000 prize pool. The top 36 players will make the money. Here are the full payouts:
1st Place: $960,900 *
2nd Place: $570,200
3rd Place: $320,400
4th Place: $256,300
5th Place: $192,300
6th Place: $128,200
7th-8th Place: $64,000
9th-10th Place: $41,600
11th-12th Place: $32,030
13th-18th Place: $25,620
19th-24th Place: $22,420
25th-30th Place: $19,200
31st-36th Place: $16,000
* Includes a $25,500 WPT Championship Seat
1st Place: $960,900 *
2nd Place: $570,200
3rd Place: $320,400
4th Place: $256,300
5th Place: $192,300
6th Place: $128,200
7th-8th Place: $64,000
9th-10th Place: $41,600
11th-12th Place: $32,030
13th-18th Place: $25,620
19th-24th Place: $22,420
25th-30th Place: $19,200
31st-36th Place: $16,000
* Includes a $25,500 WPT Championship Seat
Players are back from dinner break
Players are back from dinner break and are now playing 250/500 blinds with a 50 ante.
Tweets from the Dinner Break
Super flattered to have signed my first autograph. Hope what I wrote wasn't too lame :) Thanks, Mark!
— Xuan Liu (@xxl23) March 7, 2012
Flopped the nuts, 4 bet all in on the river and doubled to 70k the last hand before dinner. #operationbustthecheese #bay101
— David Doc Sands (@Doc_Sands) March 7, 2012
Sinner break. I'm a little over average with 54k. 90BB #wptbay101
— Barry Greenstein (@barrygreenstein) March 7, 2012
17k at dinner.
— Todd Terry (@toddbterry) March 7, 2012
21k on dinner break.Lost a big hand with a flopped set.
— Eugene Katchalov (@EugeneKatchalov) March 7, 2012
11k on dinner break, coming back to 250/500
— Gavin Griffin (@NHGG) March 7, 2012
@ dinner break @WorldPokerTour #bay101 up to 64k.. Slow & steady wins the race
— Noah j Schwartz (@noahjschwartz) March 7, 2012
Dinner break almost over. Have almost 70k. 4 levels left in the day. #wptBay101
— David Williams (@dwpoker) March 7, 2012
Dinner break and I'm up to T44k having played very few hands.
— Allen Cunningham(@AllenCunningham) March 7, 2012
Dinner break and I have 21K. Hopefully I can pick up some momentum.
— Jennifer Harman (@REALJenHarman) March 7, 2012
36k at dinner break after being up to 41k and down to 27k last level
— Brian Brubaker (@Bru009) March 7, 2012
39k at dinner of @bay101casino main. Brutal start to the day but recovered the last 3hrs.. 4 more levels to go
— Alex Masek (@PujolsOfPokr) March 7, 2012
Got 59k at dinner, of @WorldPokerTour @Bay101Casino chip lead of my table. 250-500 next. #castlecomingsoon #Bay101
— Andrew Badecker (@Andrewbadecker) March 7, 2012
65k going into 250/500 #Bay101 #WPT
— Sean Getzwiller (@SeanGetzPoker) March 7, 2012
Back from dinner with 51k going to 250-500. Table is considerably softer than it was in the beginning. Still tough tho
— Tyler Patterson (@TylerPoker) March 7, 2012
YouTube video: Chino Rheem Eliminated from the Bay 101 Shooting Star
Chino Rheem is eliminated on Day 1b of the Bay 101 Shooting Star by Tu Dinh.
Players are on dinner break
The board reads 162 players, and they are now on their one hour dinner break. When they return at approximately 6:40pm PST, they will be playing 250/500 blinds with a 50 ante. They will play that level and three more before bagging their chips up for the night.
Chino Rheem has been eliminated
Busted, kinda sick about it, but my one bad call cost me the whole tourney...playing the wpt foundation charity event now..
— David Rheem(@ChinoRheem) March 7, 2012
Chino Rheem has been eliminated when his [Js][Jd] fell to the [Kh][Jc] of Tu Dinh, all in on a [Td][Qs][9c][8s] board. Chino was drawing to a chop, but missed when the river fell [Ad].
Matt Giannetti Eliminated by the Titan of Tulalip, Tyler Patterson
Matt Giannetti
Busted bay101, flat AA pre, flop K62 two clubs, c-bet, I raise, turn T, I bet 4k w/7 behind, he ships, I call, he has TT... No miracle river
— Matt Giannetti(@MattGiannetti) March 7, 2012
Cool tournament, wish I could have made a run...
— Matt Giannetti(@MattGiannetti) March 7, 2012
Just got a very well publicized bounty for turning a set of TT against Matt Giannetti's AA.
— Tyler Patterson (@TylerPoker) March 7, 2012
Shooting Star Matt Giannetti has been eliminated by Tyler Patterson.
Patterson collects the $5,000 bounty as well as the t-shirt.
Photos from around the room
Kara Scott
Allen Cunningham
Marvin Rettenmaier
Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier
David Williams
Sorel Mizzi
Jennifer Harman
Tweets from the Break
2nd break 36925 going to 150-300. Really tough table. They made two correct call downs with K high for over 10bb river bets (not against me)
— Tyler Patterson (@TylerPoker) March 6, 2012
On 2nd break of the @Bay101Casino main event.Started with 30k have about 37k at the moment.Really amazing structure in this tournament.
— Eugene Katchalov (@EugeneKatchalov) March 6, 2012
I've selected WPT Bay 101 to be my tournament win this year.Here we go !
— Allen Cunningham(@AllenCunningham) March 6, 2012
Lost a 30k pot when I flopped the nut flush against a set and the board paired on the river. Still have 45k. 150BB. #wptbay101
— Barry Greenstein (@barrygreenstein) March 6, 2012
17k going to 150/300. No meaningful pots that level.
— Matthew Affleck (@mcmattopoker) March 6, 2012
44k at 2nd break. #activelycaging #bay101
— David Doc Sands (@Doc_Sands) March 6, 2012
Level 4 over. 50k. #wptBay101
— David Williams (@dwpoker) March 6, 2012
Down to 10k.
— Todd Terry (@toddbterry) March 6, 2012
I flat 9s in pos, 9c8c7, he cbets 1,6 - me 4,2k, he calls.. 5c ch-ch, river 2, he shoves 27k eff, I fold.. Def shd have busted due to bounty
— Marvin Rettenmaier (@MadMarvin) March 6, 2012
38k at 2nd break
— Brian Brubaker (@Bru009) March 6, 2012
Battled back up to 21k after hitting trips. Had to fold 10 high flush on 4 spade board after 1.5x pot bet. Guy showed As. 150/300 25 now
— Adam Levy (@Roothlus) March 6, 2012
Ended lvl 4 with 11k after KQ>AJ and 77>89 on 865, 150-300 now
— Jonathan Aguiar (@JonAguiar) March 6, 2012
Todd Brunson has been eliminated
Well I finally moved in with a4 suited and got raised and re raised by Qj and KQ.Tripled up. Then got A10 suited and ran into AQ. I'm out
— Todd Brunson (@ToddBrunson) March 6, 2012
Mike Sexton has been eliminated
Mike Sexton has been eliminated. He held top pair, top kicker with his AK, but his opponent had a set of deuces.