Day 2 at the Bay 101 Shooting Star $5,200 no-limit hold'em Main Event has come to a close with 10 players advancing to Day 3 on Friday from 290 entries after 106 returned to start the day. There are five Shooting Star bounties among the group of survivors.
The chip leader at the end of play is Craig Varnell with 2,700,000. Other top stacks were bagged up by Kristen Bicknell (2,110,000), and Navin Mohan rounds out the top three with 1,860,000. Half the field remaining are Shooting Star bounties, with Varnell, Bicknell, Tyler Patterson, Anthony Zinno, and Lexy Gavin still in the mix.
Here is the seating chart with chip counts for Day 3.
Table 30
Seat 1: Lexy Gavin - 160,000
Seat 2: Michael Tureniec - 900,000
Seat 3: Tyler Patterson - 1,389,000
Seat 4: Anshul Kulshrestha - 1,105,000
Seat 5: Anthony Zinno - 330,000
Table 31
Seat 1: Navin Mohan - 1,860,000
Seat 2: Craig Varnell - 2,700,000
Seat 3: Kristen Bicknell - 2,110,000
Seat 4: Anthony Spinella - 260,000
Seat 5: John Andress - 855,000
Remaining Prize Pool:
1st Place: $300,650
2nd Place: $201,615
3rd Place: $130,100
4th Place: $82,180
5th Place: $63,550
6th Place: $52,555
7th Place: $44,190
8th Place: $36,660
9th Place: $30,180
10th Place: $24,860
The money bubble burst around 2:15 pm, and that was when the final 37 players were guaranteed at least $9,040 in prize money. Here is a look at the players that went on to cash during the day.
11th: Darren Elias - $24,860
12th: Phillip Hui - $24,860
13th: Chino Rheem - $21,130
14th: Nischal Colluru - $21,130
15th: Mike Matusow - $21,130
16th: Michael McClain - $17,595
17th: Eric Wong - $17,595
18th: Munir Shahin - $17,595
19th Anthony Yagobi - $14,395
20th: Tony Tran - $14,395
21st: Andrew Moreno - $14,395
22nd: Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - $11,595
23rd: Bryan Ngo - $11,595
24th: Maxwell Young - $11,595
25th: Michael Abratique - $10,265
26th: Stephen Wan - $10,265
27th: Sean Marshall - $10,265
28th: Noel Rodriguez - $9,040
29th: David Kelsey - $9,040
30th: John Clenney - $9,040
31st: Chi Ng - $9,040
32nd: Hiroaki Harada - $9,040
33rd: Jonathan Bryan - $9,040
34th: Jordan Westmorland - $9,040
35th: Val Villa - $9,040
36th: Qi Hu - $9,040
37th: David Fong - $9,040
Day 3 will resume at 10:00 am on Friday, and that is when the field will return to play down to a champion. Tune back in tomorrow for live updates, chip counts, and photos from the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, California.
