Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Three more hands

The clock has been paused with 10 minutes left in the level, and the field will play 3 more hands before bagging up their chips for the night.  The chip leader for Day 1B will get a $10,000 bonus.  The remaining players will return tomorrow at 11am to play Day 2 with the 106 remaining players from Day 1A.

Photos from levels 7 & 8

Chip leader Chance Kornuth has topped the 200,000 mark
Carlos Mortensen wins the first pot at his new table with pocket tens
Liv Boeree scoops a sizeable pot
Chris Moorman and Dan Shak play a pot together
Ronit Chamani tweets about getting to 100,000 chips
Phil Hellmuth ponders his decision
Ari Engel works with a less than average stack
Jason Mercier mucks his hand

Daniel Negreanu hits his flush, but is eliminated


On a [Qs][7h][2h] flop, Daniel Negreanu was all in and was shown the nuts by his opponent.  Vinh Pham held [Qc][Qd] for top set, but Daniel taunted him by saying he was live before revealing his [Qh][Th].  Though behind, Daniel was all smiles as the dealer put the [Jc] on the turn.  Daniel asked for a heart, and it came on the river, but unfortunately for Daniel it was the [Jh].  Vinh had made a full house and would earn the bounty, increasing his stack to 43,000.

Photos from the last two levels

Phil Hellmuth
Maria Ho is excited to sign a bounty t-shirt
Chance Kornuth (left) 5-bets after Jeff Madsen (right) cold 4-bets
Liv Boeree
Chris Moorman is eliminated by Chino Rheem with a full house vs. quads
Noah Schwartz chops a pot on the river after being all in with ace queen
Joe Cheong
Daniel Negreanu interacts with his fans
Tom Marchese bets "Turbo" Nguyen off his hand on the river
Ryan Riess
Antonio Esfandiari

Players are now on dinner break


Players are now on a one hour dinner break.  When they return, blinds will be 250/500 with a 75 ante.  The number of seated entrants is now at 339 players.

Lily Kiletto gets 2 outed to bust


Lily Kiletto was all in preflop holding [Ah][Kd] and was in good shape to double up against her opponent's [As][Qc].  The [Qs][Jh][Kc] flop was great for Lily, making her an 84% favorite.  The turn, however, was a devastating [Qh]. leaving Lily drawing to two kings for the win or a ten to chop.  The [9d] was a narrow miss, eliminating Lily and awarding her opponent the bounty.

Players are on second break


The 306 players that have entered Day 1B are now on their second break of the day.  The Shooting Star bounties are getting a group picture, and when everyone returns, the blinds will be 150/300 with a 25 ante.

Photos from the first two levels

Mike Sexton
Shooting Star Kevin Mathers can't believe he won a hand
Allen Kessler
Candace Collins
Chantel McNulty
Christian Harder
Cristina Lindley
Dan Heimiller
Dan O'Brien
David Forster
Dominik Nitsche
Erik Seidel
Hiroki Hirada
Jeff Madsen
Maria Ho
Mike Leah
Mike Matusow
Ronit Chamani
Scott Clements
Tim West
Will Failla

Players are on their first break


Players are on their first break of the day.  When they return, blinds will be 75/150 with a 25 ante.  There are currently 282 entrants for Day 1B, with alternates still being seated.

YouTube Video: 2015 Bay 101 $2,100 Shooting Star Day 1 (Part 2)

YouTube Video: 2015 Bay 101 $2,100 Shooting Star Day 1 (Part 1)

Day 1B cards are in the air

We're back at it at the Bay 101 Casino, and cards are in the air for Day 1B of the $7,500 Shooting Star.  Once again, blinds start at 50/100, and the you can watch our live stream at www.Bay101Live.com.

$2,100 Down to 3 Players


We last reported on the $2,100 Shooting Star when it was six handed.  Well, the field has now been trimmed to three.  Here were the last three eliminations

4th Place: Nipun Java ($43,170)
5th Place: Derrick Ho ($32,410)
6th Place: Scott Clements ($25,920)

The final three are all guaranteed their seat in the $7,500 Shooting Star event, as well as a cash prize.

When we arrived to count chips, we found Tim West all in against Johnson Liu.  Tim held [9s][9c] against Johnson's [Ah][6d].  The [Qh][6h][4d] kept Tim in front, but Johnson had five outs to beat him plus a backdoor flush draw.  The [9h] meant that Tim would need to fade a non-pair heart on the river, and he did just that as the [Js] landed on the river.

After that hand, here are updated chip counts for the final three:

Tim West - 560,000
Brian Yoon - 1,100,000
Johnson Liu - 1,300,000

Here are the remaining prizes to be played for:

1st Place: $121,710 + $7,500 Shooting Star Seat
2nd Place: $83,180 + $7,500 Shooting Star Seat
3rd Place: $50,820 + $7,500 Shooting Star Seat

$7,500 Shooting Star End of Day 1A Chip Counts

End of Day 1A chip leader James Carroll wins $10,000
2015 BAY 101 $7,500 SHOOTING STAR
19TH ANNUAL ● MARCH 9-13, 2015
End of Day 1A Chip Counts (311 Entrants)

PlaceFirstLastChips
1JamesCarroll297,600
2RaveeMathi282,000
3DavidMiscikowski253,900
4JohnHennigan248,700
5BrianRast237,000
6JustinYoung224,300
7FarazJaka219,700
8DeanFreedlander209,100
9SaurabhPatel180,000
10GraysonRamage167,000
11SteveNa166,900
12AnthonyAjlouny154,100
13JoeKeuether151,500
14IgorKurganov151,000
15MichaelRocco151,000
16SangNguyen148,400
17MichaelMcclain147,000
18MattAffleck142,600
19MichaelKatz140,400
20BrynKenney136,800
21JoeSerock130,900
22RaymondLee130,100
23JustinKindred126,300
24MattStout126,100
25JoseMerino120,000
26RobTepper116,800
27GarrettGreer116,200
28JordanCristos111,100
29HansWinzler105,500
30ErikCajelais104,400
31KumarSripadam101,600
32DanielKelly100,500
33SajidZia99,600
34LarryWright95,900
35MirsadArap93,600
36TaylorPaur92,700
37TylerPatterson91,900
38MohsinCharania91,700
39RepPorter90,300
40AaronOverton87,400
41RyanD'Angelo85,600
42AllenLe84,700
43MatthewDiehl83,700
44ChungHo83,200
45KartaikSunraram82,600
46ShaneAbbott82,200
47GordanVayo82,200
48OliverPrice75,900
49ScottKaplan73,900
50ToddBrunson72,300
51NoahBronstein72,200
52JulieLe72,000
53RonaldWu71,900
54QuanTran70,000
55ThomasBolles69,000
56MattSalsberg67,800
57BabtDowling66,500
58BrianAleksa64,300
59CharlieCoultas63,600
60DaveErisman62,900
61EugeneKatchalov61,600
62SteveBrecher60,500
63RommyRounds59,000
64WalterFisher57,200
65JacobBazeley56,900
66DylanWilkerson51,100
67AnChen49,100
68GiacomoFundaro47,100
69DanSmith46,800
70RyanJulius46,500
71TedBui45,500
72MoonKim43,900
73JJTran43,100
74BruceKramer42,000
75MukulPahuja41,500
76EricWerner41,500
77ByronKavernan41,300
78JohnAndress41,000
79ChangLuo40,600
80DavidBertelsen40,500
81JameerAljanedi40,400
82AdamGeyer40,200
83PaulRichardson39,900
84NamLe38,700
85JustoAvalos38,400
86DavidSands38,400
87GalYifralh36,600
88DarrenRabinowitz36,000
89DarrenElias35,600
90LuisVelador34,400
91ScottSoth33,400
92KelseyHendricks33,200
93NickShkolnik33,200
94NickSchulman32,500
95BrianCospolich32,000
96EddySabat29,000
97TomHuynh28,900
98IsaacBasa27,800
99LisaLa27,400
100AndrewLichtenberger27,100
101QuyDao17,500
102RichardLyndaker17,200
103TomDobrilovic14,400
104BasilGimalan14,400
105BarryHutter5,000
106AlexGreenblat3,500

YouTube Video: 2015 Bay 101 Shooting Star Day 1A (Part 1)