Wednesday, March 7, 2012
YouTube video: The Director Cut: Jason Mercier Eliminated by Jonathan Duhamel
The Directors Cut:
Shortly after reaching the money, Jason Mercier runs his pocket tens into the pocket kings of Jonathan Duhamel.
31st-36th Place Finishers
YouTube video: Jason Mercier Eliminated by Jonathan Duhamel
Shortly after reaching the money, Jason Mercier runs his pocket tens into the pocket kings of Jonathan Duhamel.
Jason Mercier eliminated by Jonathan Duhamel
Just busted @JasonMercier , KK vs TT ... 960k now, 26 left #rollin
— Jonathan Duhamel (@JonathanDuhamel) March 8, 2012
Busted. 27th. Made a pretty big backshove w TT over Duhamels squeeze and chipleaders flat of the squeeze. Ran into KK. :( #ontothenextone
— Jason Mercier (@JasonMercier) March 8, 2012
Jason Mercier was all in preflop holding the [Ts][Tc] against the [Kd][Kc] of Jonathan Duhamel. The board ran out [Ac][5h][5c][Jd][Jh], and Duhamel eliminated Mercier to bring the field down to 26 players. Duhamel will collect $5,000 and pad his chip stack to roughly 960,000.
Tyler Patterson has joined our featured table
Tyler Patterson has just taken the 2 seat on our live featured table, and he promptly tweeted about it. We caught him in the act!
YouTube video: Kathy Liebert Bubbles the Bay 101
With 36 spots finishing in the money, Kathy Liebert is eliminated on the money bubble by Men "The Master" Nguyen at the Bay 101 Shooting Star.
Moved in over top With AK and AT called.Busted on bubble.
— Kathy Liebert (@pokerkat) March 8, 2012
Fabrice Soulier has been eliminated
Fabrice Soulier has been eliminated when his [5d][5c] was outraced by his opponent's [Ad][6d]. The board came [Ks][Ac][3h][9h][2c], and Fabrice will exit this tournament in 35th place, earning $16,000 for his efforts.
Kathy Liebert is the "bubble girl" / Players now in the money
Josh Arieh crippled and tilted
Josh Arieh lost a huge pot on the money bubble with pocket queens against his opponent's pocket kings. Visibly tilted, Josh decided to take a hand or two off to take a walk. Josh now has around 100,000, which is about 20 big blinds.
Tournament is now hand for hand
David Pham has been eliminated
David Pham has been eliminated in 38th place, just short of the money, when his aces were cracked by Jonathan Duhamel's Q-J. Duhamel turned two pair before the money got in, and Pham failed to improve on the river.
YouTube video: David Pham Clicks it Back
Facing a four-bet from the opponent to his left, David Pham clicks back a five-bet near the money bubble of the Bay 101 Shooting Star.
YouTube video: Taylor Von Kriegenbergh knocks out 2 players
Chau Giang, a $5,000 bounty, moves all-in and Owais Ahmed calls. Taylor von Kriegenbergh then moves all-in and Ahmed goes into the tank.
Nine players to the money
David Pham has joined our featured table
You can view the live stream by going to www.Bay101Live.com.
Cards are back in the air
Tweets from the Dinner Break
Dinner break. 317k. Struggled that level a little bit, but I still have a lot. 48 left
— Tyler Patterson (@TylerPoker) March 8, 2012
250k at dinner break, back in 1hr
— Jonathan Duhamel (@JonathanDuhamel) March 8, 2012
150k @worldpokertour 48 left. Dinner break one hour.
— Kathy Liebert (@pokerkat) March 8, 2012
At 88000 playing 2000/4000-500. I have been getting absolutely tortured. Dinner break now.
— Jonathan Little (@JonathanLittle) March 8, 2012
317k on dinner break, 48 left. Duhamel and Chau Giang are bounties on my table.
— Owais Ahmed (@oerockets) March 8, 2012
Heading into dinner break with 380k. Average is 230k, 48 to go... #beastmode reached #WPT #bay101 #onetime
— Michael Wywrot (@WywrotX) March 8, 2012
266k on dinner, blinds going to 2-4k #Bay101
— Andrew Badecker (@Andrewbadecker) March 8, 2012
Players are on dinner break
Our live stream at www.Bay101Live.com will be back online at approximately 8pm PST.
Chau Giang has joined our featured table
Chau Giang doubles up
Chau Giang has just doubled up in dramatic fashion. He was all in preflop with the best hand, holding pocket nines against his opponent's pocket sixes. The flop fell 2-5-4, giving Chau's opponent a gutshot straight draw to go along with his draw to a set. The miracle fell an unfortunate six, leaving Chau drawing to a bigger set, or a chopped pot if a 3 hit the river. The river gave Chau the nine he needed, and he will survive and double up.
Vanessa Selbst has been eliminated
And the nightmare day ends getting in a set vs a straight for the rest of it. GL to all still in.
— Vanessa Selbst (@VanessaSelbst) March 8, 2012
Tweets from the Break
389k going to 1500-3k. 68 left. Doesn't seem like there are many soft spots left.
— Tyler Patterson (@TylerPoker) March 8, 2012
134k at break #wptbay101
— Jonathan Duhamel (@JonathanDuhamel) March 8, 2012
Around 100k now 68 left
— Kathy Liebert (@pokerkat) March 8, 2012
Third break today at 154k. Frustrating day so far, just made a squeeze play and men the master picks up aces and crams over. #bay101
— Bryce Yockey (@SuddenlyBryce) March 8, 2012
110k at the break. Im actually playing great though so I think I'm gonna chip up soon! Going to 1500/3000/500. #Bay101
— Vanessa Selbst (@VanessaSelbst) March 8, 2012
Blinds up to 1500-3k/500, got 226k, both bounties well covered now #Bay101 @Bay101Casino
— Andrew Badecker (@Andrewbadecker) March 8, 2012
68 ppl left. Avg is 160k. I have 217k. Blinds 1500-300/500 ante
— Joshua Arieh (@golferjosh) March 8, 2012
Over 300k in chips, 68 players left
— Owais Ahmed (@oerockets) March 8, 2012
50k with 67players left...time to move in the other direction!!!!!
— Sean Getzwiller (@SeanGetzPoker) March 8, 2012
35k, 67 left.Avg is way more than 35
— Brian Brubaker (@Bru009) March 8, 2012
Have 199.5k going to 1500/3k. 67 remain.I'm just above average. #winbay101
— Jason Mercier (@JasonMercier) March 8, 2012
Players are now on break
The tournament staff are now coloring up and racing off the 100 chips while the 68 players remaining take a 15 minute break.
YouTube video: Michael Mizrachi Eliminated
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is eliminated on Day 2 of the 2012 Bay 101 Shooting Star event.
Michael Mizrachi has been eliminated
Michael Mizrachi was all in preflop holding the [Ad][9d] against his opponent's [Ac][Kc]. The Grinder picked up a flush draw when the flop fell [Qd][Kd][Qh]. He picked a straight draw as well when the turn fell [Jc]. But the river blanked out for Mizrachi, and he was eliminated with 69 players left.
YouTube video: Marko Trapani, Jr. with an Emotional Double Up!
Marko Trapani, Jr. doubles up late on Day 2 of the event his father made so great, the Marko Trapani Bay 101 Shooting Star.
YouTube video: Michael Mizrachi Triples Up
Michael Mizrachi is all-in against two opponents on Day 2 of the Bay 101 Shooting Star.
YouTube video: Marko Trapani, Jr. at the Bay 101 Shooting Star
Marko Trapani, Jr. talks with Matt Savage on break at the event named after his father.
YouTube video: Christian Harder Eliminated
Christian Harder is eliminated on Day 2 of the Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event.
Players are now on break
YouTube video: Jason Mercier Making Moves on Day 2
After starting Day 2 of the Bay 101 Shooting Star with just over 20,000 in chips, Jason Mercier is now up to just under 200,000. He talks with Tournament Director Matt Savage on a break.
Marko Trapani, Jr. Runs Deep on Day 2
Chip leader photos
Tweets from the Break
Last level ended pretty bad, 210k now, still 2x the average #roooollin
— Jonathan Duhamel (@JonathanDuhamel) March 7, 2012
47k.95 players left.Avg is around 100k
— Brian Brubaker (@Bru009) March 7, 2012
Meh. Shoved over dpeters squeeze with A9 run into KK. 53500 going into the next level. Double up time! #Bay101
— Vanessa Selbst (@VanessaSelbst) March 7, 2012
96 players left. I have 168k. Avg is around 110 maybe
— Joshua Arieh (@golferjosh) March 7, 2012
2nd break 270k
— Tyler Patterson (@TylerPoker) March 7, 2012
At 250k. I made a straight flush draw against a set and got there. My table is super tough with no bounties. Playing 1000/2000-300.
— Jonathan Little (@JonathanLittle) March 7, 2012
18K, 9 BBs.Folding J2o like a pro.
— Todd Terry (@toddbterry) March 7, 2012
Booo table broke. New table302k. New table has bill reynolds, tom marchese, Linda Johnson, and the son of the founder of this event
— Bryce Yockey (@SuddenlyBryce) March 7, 2012
48k on 2nd break heading to 1k-2k. 95 left
— Alex Masek (@PujolsOfPokr) March 7, 2012
Photos from around the room
YouTube video: Elky Eliminated by Jonathan Duhamel
Bertrand Grospellier is eliminated by his friend Jonathan Duhamel on Day 2 of the Bay 101 Shooting Star. Duhamel not only gets Elky's chips, but a $5,000 cash bounty and the commemorative t-shirt.
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YouTube video: Jonathan Duhamel Takes a Monster Pot Early
Jonathan Duhamel takes a huge pot to eliminate Nicholas Grippo early on Day 2 of the Bay 101 Shooting Star.
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YouTube video: Mike Matusow in a wild hand on Day 2
In a crazy hand of AA vs. KK vs. QQ (with another player who open folded QQ before the flop), Mike Matusow is eliminated from the Bay 101 Shooting Star.
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Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier eliminated by Jonathan Duhamel
Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier was all in preflop with AQ vs the pocket threes of Jonathan Duhamel. Elky picked up a straight draw to go with his two overs on the turn, but the river bricked, eliminating Elky and giving Jonathan the bounty.
A video will be posted shortly.
Players are now on break
Mike Matusow has been eliminated
Mike Matusow was all in with pocket queens, but ran into the pocket aces of Jonathan Little. Amazingly, another player was all in with pocket kings, and Gabe Walls folded the other two queens face up. With little hope for surviving, Jonathan's aces held up to eliminate Mike Matusow.
Day 2 is Underway
You can watch our live streaming table by going to www.Bay101Live.com. Here are the featured table participants:
SEAT | FIRST | LAST | CHIP COUNT |
1 | Nicholas | Grippo | 110,800 |
2 | David | Frazee | 14,800 |
3 | Ronald | Lee | 84,100 |
4 | Randy | Gil | 46,100 |
5 | Bertrand | Grospellier | 46,100 |
6 | Steve | Silva | 26,200 |
7 | Steven | Michaelis | 52,200 |
8 | Jonathan | Duhamel | 102,200 |
9 | John | Clenney | 79,600 |
Red indicates a Shooting Star bounty
Day 2 Seating Assignments (with chip counts)
FIRST | LAST | CHIP COUNT | TABLE | SEAT |
Nicholas | Grippo | 110,800 | 22 | 1 |
David | Frazee | 14,800 | 22 | 2 |
Ronald | Lee | 84,100 | 22 | 3 |
Randy | Gil | 46,100 | 22 | 4 |
Bertrand | Grospellier | 46,100 | 22 | 5 |
Steve | Silva | 26,200 | 22 | 6 |
Steven | Michaelis | 52,200 | 22 | 7 |
Jonathan | Duhamel | 102,200 | 22 | 8 |
John | Clenney | 79,600 | 22 | 9 |
Marco | Johnson | 70,500 | 23 | 1 |
Gavin | Griffin | 27,400 | 23 | 2 |
Dzung | Nguyen | 110,000 | 23 | 3 |
Mike | Heshmati | 34,100 | 23 | 4 |
Allen | Cunningham | 122,200 | 23 | 5 |
Shayae | Heine | 23,000 | 23 | 6 |
David | Sands | 52,400 | 23 | 7 |
Mike | LaBarbera | 44,400 | 23 | 8 |
Cheryl | Svenson | 99,800 | 23 | 9 |
24 | 1 | |||
Gabe | Walls | 57,800 | 24 | 2 |
Ian | Steinman | 27,200 | 24 | 3 |
Sakat | Botra | 13,500 | 24 | 4 |
Mike | Matusow | 83,800 | 24 | 5 |
Gary | Tighe | 102,800 | 24 | 6 |
Bruce | Kramer | 62,500 | 24 | 7 |
Jonathan | Little | 101,100 | 24 | 8 |
Ron | Burke | 78,000 | 24 | 9 |
Thomas | Marchese | 62,000 | 25 | 1 |
Jake | Solis | 33,500 | 25 | 2 |
25 | 3 | |||
Philippe | Boucher | 21,500 | 25 | 4 |
Linda | Johnson | 76,000 | 25 | 5 |
May | Silver | 155,200 | 25 | 6 |
John | Davies | 22,600 | 25 | 7 |
Janet | Agonoy | 49,000 | 25 | 8 |
Joe | Nguyen | 46,600 | 25 | 9 |
David | Pham | 86,300 | 26 | 1 |
Ryan | Lawrence | 68,700 | 26 | 2 |
Tam | Nguyen | 32,900 | 26 | 3 |
Saurabh | Patel | 50,900 | 26 | 4 |
Kathy | Liebert | 61,500 | 26 | 5 |
Tri | Huynh | 54,000 | 26 | 6 |
Jimmy | Zeledon | 49,100 | 26 | 7 |
Alexandru | Gorevich | 82,200 | 26 | 8 |
Randy | Melton | 41,600 | 26 | 9 |
Owais | Ahmed | 82,300 | 27 | 1 |
Anthony | Ajlouny | 66,600 | 27 | 2 |
Chris | Swan | 43,700 | 27 | 3 |
Kevin | McGowan | 91,600 | 27 | 4 |
David | Williams | 61,200 | 27 | 5 |
John | Zayas | 19,000 | 27 | 6 |
Shannon | Shorr | 183,400 | 27 | 7 |
Joseph | Elpayoa | 95,100 | 27 | 8 |
Sacain | Hudi | 70,400 | 27 | 9 |
Stephen | Chidwick | 107,000 | 28 | 1 |
Karthik | Sundaram | 35,100 | 28 | 2 |
Layne | Flack | 96,900 | 28 | 3 |
Mario | Delis | 77,700 | 28 | 4 |
Nam | Lee | 54,800 | 28 | 5 |
Josh | Bergman | 93,200 | 28 | 6 |
Baltazar | Villa | 14,700 | 28 | 7 |
Brian | Brubaker | 55,400 | 28 | 8 |
Ubaid | Habib | 58,200 | 28 | 9 |
Mark | Violetti | 20,400 | 29 | 1 |
Dan | Shak | 59,100 | 29 | 2 |
Scott | Vener | 31,000 | 29 | 3 |
Ngoc | Tran | 32,900 | 29 | 4 |
Vanessa | Selbst | 125,400 | 29 | 5 |
David | Peters | 142,100 | 29 | 6 |
Grantland | Hillman | 97,000 | 29 | 7 |
Robert | Fox | 99,800 | 29 | 8 |
Tyler | Patterson | 59,600 | 29 | 9 |
Michael | Wywroc | 51,400 | 30 | 1 |
Tommy | Vedes | 111,000 | 30 | 2 |
Tom | McCormick | 28,800 | 30 | 3 |
Mike | Harvey | 117,400 | 30 | 4 |
Men | Nguyen | 80,600 | 30 | 5 |
Danny | Le | 95,700 | 30 | 6 |
Steve | Gross | 50,400 | 30 | 7 |
Neil | Blumenfield | 139,400 | 30 | 8 |
Paul | Richardson | 95,000 | 30 | 9 |
Michael | Kamran | 18,000 | 31 | 1 |
Terrence | Byrnes | 37,200 | 31 | 2 |
Sameer | Aljawepi | 38,600 | 31 | 3 |
Eric | Nickelson | 73,400 | 31 | 4 |
Antonio | Esfandiari | 35,300 | 31 | 5 |
Kiran | Desai | 26,000 | 31 | 6 |
Pho | Tri | 11,200 | 31 | 7 |
David | Marshall | 43,200 | 31 | 8 |
David | Miller | 20,500 | 31 | 9 |
Kent | Washington | 131,000 | 32 | 1 |
Bryce | Yockey | 245,300 | 32 | 2 |
Kevin | Nguyen | 88,200 | 32 | 3 |
Evi Woong | Kim | 32,000 | 32 | 4 |
Marvin | Rettenmaier | 87,200 | 32 | 5 |
Leland | Neal | 115,500 | 32 | 6 |
Joe | Serock | 90,800 | 32 | 7 |
Ben | May | 77,600 | 32 | 8 |
John | Nguyen | 13,300 | 32 | 9 |
Josh | Arieh | 88,400 | 33 | 1 |
Amir | Lehavot | 45,400 | 33 | 2 |
Pete | Nguyen | 148,800 | 33 | 3 |
Christ | Summers | 188,200 | 33 | 4 |
Chau | Giang | 41,000 | 33 | 5 |
Andrew | Watson | 128,800 | 33 | 6 |
Cliff | Lee | 89,800 | 33 | 7 |
Andrew | Badecker | 48,900 | 33 | 8 |
Mark | Mosqueda | 32,700 | 33 | 9 |
Shawn | Buchanan | 83,600 | 34 | 1 |
Moon | Kim | 114,800 | 34 | 2 |
David | Chow | 38,000 | 34 | 3 |
Danny | Qutami | 97,300 | 34 | 4 |
J.C. | Tran | 114,300 | 34 | 5 |
Nghia | Chu | 71,100 | 34 | 6 |
Todd | Terry | 30,300 | 34 | 7 |
Amir | Khaziri | 177,700 | 34 | 8 |
Scott | Eskenazi | 34,400 | 34 | 9 |
Christian | Harder | 107,700 | 35 | 1 |
Marko | Trapani | 72,900 | 35 | 2 |
Sean | Getzwiller | 56,100 | 35 | 3 |
James | Calderaro | 40,300 | 35 | 4 |
Michael | Mizrachi | 129,900 | 35 | 5 |
Brandon | Wong | 195,600 | 35 | 6 |
Billy | DeRego | 76,400 | 35 | 7 |
Taylor | Van Kriegenberg | 181,300 | 35 | 8 |
Adam | Geyer | 63,900 | 35 | 9 |
36 | 1 | |||
Andrew | Sakai | 113,100 | 36 | 2 |
Erik | Cajelais | 128,900 | 36 | 3 |
Michael | Aron | 104,600 | 36 | 4 |
Fabrice | Soulier | 78,300 | 36 | 5 |
Scott | Baumstein | 133,600 | 36 | 6 |
Haroun | Dalaig | 119,200 | 36 | 7 |
JJ | Liu | 81,400 | 36 | 8 |
Narendra | Banwari | 86,000 | 36 | 9 |
Larry | Odegard | 35,200 | 37 | 1 |
Mike | McClain | 121,800 | 37 | 2 |
Dang | Kellsrvon | 16,900 | 37 | 3 |
Henry | So | 73,700 | 37 | 4 |
Jason | Mercier | 20,300 | 37 | 5 |
Mike | Byrnes | 52,900 | 37 | 6 |
Jeff | Sluzinski | 58,900 | 37 | 7 |
Brian | Park | 98,900 | 37 | 8 |
Darren | Elias | 73,800 | 37 | 9 |
Alexandru | Masek | 38,000 | 41 | 1 |
Jim | Collopy | 79,400 | 41 | 2 |
41 | 3 | |||
Eli | Beg | 56,200 | 41 | 4 |
Scott | Seiver | 56,500 | 41 | 5 |
David | Bertelsen | 30,400 | 41 | 6 |
Tu | Van Dinm | 60,900 | 41 | 7 |
Kevin | O'Donnell | 57,200 | 41 | 8 |
Matt | Keikon | 57,400 | 41 | 9 |