Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Shooting Star Chino Rheem Leads 106 Day 1 Survivors at Bay 101 Shooting Star



Day 1 at the Bay 101 Shooting Star $5,200 no-limit hold'em Main Event has come to a close with 106 players advancing to Day 2 on Thursday from 290 entries. There are 16 Shooting Star bounties among the group of survivors.

The chip leader at the end of play is Chino Rheem with 627,500. Other top stacks were bagged up by Munir Shahin (462,000), Balthazar Villa (362,000), Craig Varnell (311,500), and Noel Rodriguez (279,500) rounds out the top five.

The prize pool was set at $1,331,000 today. After paying out the bounties and end-of-day chip leaders, $2,070,000 will be awarded to the top 37 players. A min-cash is worth $9,040, while first place will awards $300,650. Here are the full payouts:

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-12th Place: $24,860
13th-15th Place: $21,130
16th-18th Place: $17,595
19th-21st Place: $14,395
22nd-24th Place: $11,595
25th-27th Place: $10,265
28th-37th Place: $9,040

The Shooting Stars that didn't make it through the day were Jared Griener, Jake Schwartz, Mark Newhouse, Alex Foxen, Unlce Ron, Chance Kornuth, and defending champion Deep Pulusani.

Day 2 will resume at 10:00 am on Thursday, and that is when the field will return to continue their march down to the money. Tune back in tomorrow for live updates, chip counts, and photos from the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, California.

Day 2 Chip Counts & Seating Assignments

BAY 101 SHOOTING STAR $5,200
23RD ANNUAL · MARCH 11-14, 2020
Day 2 Chip Counts & Seating Assignments
290 Entrants / $1,331,000 Prize Pool
(40 $2,000 bounties + 2 $5,000 chipleaders awarded)
Place First Last Chips Table Seat
1 David Rheem 627,500 29 5
2 Munir Shahin 462,000 42 7
3 Balthazar Villa 362,000 40 3
4 Craig Varnell 311,500 31 1
5 Noel Rodriguez 279,500 32 6
6 Navin M. 265,500 51 4
7 Qi Ha 245,500 47 3
8 Nischal Colluru 241,500 45 3
9 Orazio Montesano 241,500 45 6
10 Taylor von Kriegenbergh 214,000 30 3
11 Anthony Zinno 210,500 50 5
12 Jordan Westmorland 209,000 41 4
13 Tony Tran 208,500 45 4
14 David Ong 204,500 40 4
15 Casey McCarrel 194,000 31 7
16 Alex Greenblatt 189,000 42 6
17 Ryan Pang 185,000 32 2
18 David Fong 176,000 46 2
19 Anthony Spinella 172,500 28 7
20 John Andress 170,000 31 6
21 Greg Feinmon 159,500 29 1
22 Eric Wong 156,000 45 7
23 Tyler Patterson 155,000 32 5
24 Mike Abratique 149,700 30 4
25 Michael Hahn 147,500 40 1
26 Igor Guberman 144,500 51 2
27 Hiroaki Hirada 138,000 32 1
28 Bill Murray 134,500 42 8
29 Charles Vassin 134,000 30 8
30 Maxwell Young 133,500 50 3
31 Kristen Bicknell 125,500 33 5
32 Adam Duong 121,500 47 2
33 Andrew Wisdom 120,000 41 8
34 Michael Tureniel 119,500 46 6
35 Dustin Wood 111,500 46 4
36 Florian Duta 111,000 41 3
37 Stephen Wam 110,000 47 7
38 Nicholas Pupillo 108,000 50 1
39 Lexy Gavin 107,500 47 5
40 Rohan Kapuria 107,500 50 6
41 Bryan Ngo 106,500 33 4
42 Martin Zamani 101,000 47 4
43 James Carroll 99,500 41 5
44 Andrew Martin 97,500 33 7
45 Hock Loon Lau 97,000 47 8
46 Loni Harwood 96,000 51 5
47 Michael McClain 93,000 30 6
48 David Chen 90,000 50 7
49 Ryan McGill 88,000 29 3
50 Irakli Tabidze 87,000 40 2
51 Aaron Rondon 86,500 31 3
52 Mike Matusow 84,500 42 5
53 Michael Wang 84,500 46 7
54 Jimmy Zeledon 84,500 51 1
55 Peter Neff 84,000 41 6
56 Phillip Hui 83,500 46 5
57 David Kelsey 82,500 32 4
58 Phaly Nou 81,500 32 3
59 Ron McMillen 81,000 31 4
60 Sush Orinda 79,500 42 3
61 Brett Murray 76,500 33 8
62 Danny Stavila 76,500 41 2
63 Joseph Nguyen 68,500 51 6
64 Steve Dempsey 66,500 28 5
65 Matas Cimbolas 65,000 30 5
66 Randall Chamberlain 64,500 46 8
67 Abrahim Aboukhalil 63,000 33 2
68 Chiwai Ng 62,500 45 2
69 Bob Mather 62,000 29 6
70 Sarwat Fahmy 61,500 32 8
71 Sean Marshall 61,000 29 2
72 Andrew Moreno 61,000 51 8
73 Rellie Sigua 60,500 40 8
74 Kin Chau 59,000 45 1
75 Teri Schwimmer 59,000 47 6
76 Kerry Smith 59,000 50 2
77 Weiyu Mo 58,500 31 8
78 Anthony Ajlouny 57,000 51 3
79 Kenny Bidinger 54,000 40 7
80 John Clenney 51,000 42 1
81 Kulwant Singh 51,000 28 8
82 Robert HeIdorn 50,000 50 8
83 Marcus Laffen 48,500 28 1
84 Omri Shaked 48,500 31 2
85 Anshul Kulshrestha 47,000 40 6
86 Joe Nguyen 47,000 40 5
87 Nir Azriel 45,000 29 7
88 Sheila Raines 44,000 33 1
89 Pradeep Rajasekaran 43,500 46 1
90 Michael Jen 41,500 32 7
91 Faraz Jaka 36,000 45 5
92 Amir Lehavot 36,000 28 3
93 Phi Tran 35,500 50 4
94 Jonathan Bryan 35,000 33 3
95 Brandon Zuidema 34,500 30 7
96 Danny Wong 32,000 46 3
97 Pat Lyons 29,000 28 6
98 Bin Duan 28,500 29 8
99 Amol Deshpande 27,000 28 2
100 Art Bisquera 22,500 29 4
101 Xinyu Zhao 22,500 51 7
102 Chung Ho 21,500 30 1
103 Anthony Yagobi 19,500 42 2
104 Lance Gordon 14,000 28 4
105 Frank Stepuchin 10,500 31 5
106 Darren Elias 6,500 41 1

Three more hands

The clock has been paused at 10:00 and it has been announced that three more hands will be played before play will conclude for the night. The board currently reads 110 players remaining.

Playing 8 Hours Tomorrow Also

The schedule for Day 2 of the Bay 101 Shooting Start is eight hour-long levels, starting at 10 a.m., playing until 6:45 p.m. when Level 19 wraps up.

The overall chipleaders at the end of day 1 and Day 2 receive a $5,000 payout.

90-minute levels kick in Friday when cards go in the air at 10 a.m. for the start of Level 20, players expected to be in the money on Day 2 and likely playing Friday until the 6-handed final table is established.

Play moves to 6-max once down to 36 players.

Stewart Fahmy Doubles Up

Level 11
Blinds: 800-1,600 with a big blind ante of 1,600
Players: 122 remain from 290 entries

Stewart Fahy is all in for bout 20,000 with [Ac][Jc] in the hole from the button, and the small blind has him covered holding [Kh][Qh]. The final board reads [10d][6s][5d][Js][3d], and Fahmy doubles up to survive with 40,500.


Jimmy Zeledon Doubles Thru Andrew Moreno

Level 11
Blinds: 800-1,600 with a big blind ante of 1,600
Players: 134 remaining from 290 entries

The flop reads [Js][9c][7d] when Andrew Moreno bets 5,000 UTG+1. Jimmy Zeledon raises all in for 12,900 from the button, and Moreno calls to cover him. The two players then table their cards.

Zeledon: [9h][7h]
Moreno: [As][Kc]

Turn and River: [3c][6d]

Zeledon doubles up to survive with 33,000, and Moreno is at 38,500 after the hand.

Shooting Star Uncle Ron Eliminated by John Andress


All in preflop with [Kc] [Kd} Uncle Ron stands a good chance to double or maybe even triple up as he draws two callers.

Well, you see, what happened was.

John Andress flips up [Ac] [Ah] and a third challenger shows [Ad] [Ks]

The board runs out [5c] [4s] [3d] [Js] [Jc] and Andress has Uncle Ron covered by 1,200. The third challenger ships 33,900 over to Andress as well and he moves to 100,000.

Bay 101 Prize Pool & Payouts

The 2020 Shooting Star $5,200 received a total of 290 entrants creating a $1,331,000 prize pool. The top 37 players will be in the money with a mincash worth $9,040 and 1st place worth $300,650. On top of the normal prizes, 40 $2,000 bounties are up for grabs and $5,000 for the Day 1 and Day 2 chipleader are also up for grabs. Here are the full payouts:

1st Place: $300,650
2nd Place: $201,315
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-12th Place: $24,860
13th-15th Place: $21,130
16th-18th Place: $17,595
19th-21st Place: $14,395
22nd-24th Place: $11,595
25th-27th Place: $10,265
28th-37th Place: $9,040

Shooting Star Bounty Chipcounts

Here's a look a the remaining Shooting Starts and their estimated chipcounts in Level 10

ChinoRheem335,000
AnthonyZinno300,000
CraigVarnell195,000
TylerPatterson185,000
KristenBIcknell170,000
LoniHarwell105,000
MikeMatusow90,000
LexyGavin86,000
ChainsawDempsey70,000
JoeNguyen65,000
FrankStepuchin60,000
DarrenElias55,000
AlexFoxen46,000
UncleRon41,000
TimWest37,000
JamesCarroll33,000
FarazJaka30,000
JaredGriener28,000
ChanceKornuth18,000

Shooting Star Darren Elias doubles up


On a board of [Jc][Kh][Th], Shooting Star Darren Elias is all in holding [Ad][Qc]. Darren has the nuts, but needs to dodge the flush draw of Alex Greenblatt who holds [Ah][4h]. The [Ac] turn and [8d] river keep the flopped straight in front, and Darren will double his 32,600 chip stack.

Shooting Star Jake Schwartz Eliminated by Noel Rodrogiez


A preflop bidding match between Noel Rodrogiez and Shooting Star Jake Schwartz ends with Schwartz (pictured) moving all in for ~70,000 and Rodriguez having him well-covered.

[Jd] [Js] for Schwartz
[Ah] [Kh] for Rodriguez

There's the [Kd] in the window to put Rodriguez in the lead, the next four cards are all Hearts to give Rodrigues a flush, a bounty medal, a t-shirt, a $2,000 payday and a top-five chipstack of 280,000.

Players are now on break

Chino Rheem has a massive chip stack heading to the last break of the day
Players are now on a 15 minute break. At the end of this break, registration will be closed. The board currently reads 285 players registered. When play resumes, blinds will be 600/1,200 with a 12,000 big blind ante.

Shooting Star Darren Elias eliminated


Shooting Star Darren Elias was all in preflop holding [Qc][9c] and was up against the big blind's [Ac][Js]. The [4h][Jc][5h] flop was no help for Darren, and the [Ah] turn meant he was drawing dead. The meaningless [6c] on the river meant Darren would be eliminated right before the break where he would have his last chance to re-enter.

Foxen Out, Back


Alfie Poetra may not have been able to get a bet past Chino Rheem, but he was just now able to capture a $2,000 bounty by eliminating Alex Foxen (pictured).

Poetra chips up to 65,000 and Foxen heads to re-enter, moving over to Lexy Gavin's table and a new $2k bounty in on Foxen.

Players are closing in on their final 15-minute break of the day. The re-entry period closes in 20 minutes when Level 10 begins and levels move to 60-minutes long.

Orazio Montesano Takes One Out

Level 9
Blinds: 500-1,000 with a big blind ante of 1,000
Players: 281

The big blind is all in with [Ad][3d], and Orazio Montesano has him covered holding [7c][7d]. The board runs out [Kh][5s][5d][8d][4c], and the big blind is eliminated. Montesano stacks up 225,000 after collecting the pot, and he is now one of the chip leaders in the field.

Shooting Star Tim West Eliminated by Orazio Montesano

Level 9
Blinds: 500-1,000 with a big blind ante of 1,000
Players: 278

Shooting Star Tim West is all in preflop with [Qh][Qs] in the hole, and Orazio Montesano has him covered holding [Ad][3d]. The final board reads [Jh][4h][4d][4c][Ac], and West is eliminated. Montesano collects the bounty, and he is up to 190,000 after the hand.


Danny Wong Takes One Out

Level 8
Blinds: 400-800 with a big bind ante of 800
Players: 270

The big blind is all in preflop after a series or raises with [Ad][Qc] in the hole, and Danny Wong has him covered holding [Kd][Kc] from the small blind. The board runs out [8c][7s][5h][Jd][9s], and the big blind is eliminated. Wong stacks up 60,500 after the hand.

Shooting Star Chino Rheem Crushing Day 1


There's moderate stacks in the room, some 6-figure stacks in the room, and then there's the overwhelmingly-dominant stack in the room belonging to Chino Rheem.

His tablemates collectively look both frustrated and discouraged by the fact Rheem is piling up chips on almost every hand.

Alfie Poetra just tried to open for 1,200, only to have Rheem grab a handful of blue chips and raise to 6,000. Action folded around to Poetra and he mucked.

Rheem - with that small pot - jumps to 400,000, a 10x stack after 7 levels of play in the Shooting Star.

There's a total of zero 200k stacks at this time.

Shooting Star Shannon Shorr Eliminated


On a flop of [7d][9s][8c], Shannon Shorr is all in holding [Ad][Ac] but is up against the [Jc][Tc] of Martin Zamani. Shannon is drawing dead on the [Qh] turn, and the meaningless [Kh] river means he will be eliminated.

McCarrel Takes from Elias

There's 17,000 in the pot by the river and Shooting Star Darren Elias makes it 7,000 to go on the [Qs] [8d] [3c] [Qd] board.

Joe Ranciato takes a fair amount of time, counting his stack out to ~44,000, before sending his cards to the muck. Casey McCarrel takes a similar amount of time but makes the call.

The river comes out [8c] and Elias - winner of yesterday's $2,100 Shooting Star prelim for $60k - takes his time this time around before tossing out two red 5k chips.

McCarrel - the final table bubble at yesterday's WPT Rolling Thunder $5k Main Event - adds to the clock-burning before tossing out a call.

Elias shows JT for a missed gutter to a straight, McCarrel shows Kings and takes the pot to move up to 100,000.

Elias slides back to 23,000.

Shooting Star Muscle Mike Doubles Up

Level 7
Blinds: 300-600 with a big blind ante of 600
Players: 259

Muscle Mike is all in preflop for 8,500 with [Kh][Jc] from the cutoff, and Noel Rodriguez has him covered holding [Ad][Qd] from middle position. The final board reads [Qs][10d][8c][Ks][6d], and Mike doubles up to survive with 18,500, and Rodriguez holds 121,000 after the hand.

Shooting Star Tim West doubles through Tony Tran


Shooting Star Tim West was all in preflop holding [Kh][Kd] and was up against the [Jh][8h] of Tony Tran. Tim had a bit of a sweat as the board ran out [4s][Ac][8d][3d][5s] but his kings held up to earn him a double-up. 

Wisdom's Aces Cracked

I showed up on the river, just in time to see Andrew Wisdom standing and backing up his gear. The pot - including all of Wisdom's stack - was sliding across the felt to Rayo Kniep.

Wisdom's Aces were cracked by the [5c] [6c] of Kniep, who turned a 9-high straight.

Kniep is back to starting stack, Wisdom has until 4:45 p.m. to re-enter.

Break Time

The players are taking another 15-minute break.

James Caroll Doubles Thru Andrew Moreno

Level 6
Blinds: 300-500 with a big blind ante of 500
Players: 247

James Carroll is all in with [10h][9h] in the hole on a board reading [Ah][5h][4s][3d], and Andrew Moreno has him covered holding [Qh][Qs]. The river falls [Jh] to give Carroll a flush, and he doubles up to survive 32,500. Moreno holds 326,800 after paying out the double.

Shooting Star Matas Cimbolas Eliminated by Ryan Pang

Level 5
Blinds: 200-400 with a big blind ante of 400
Players: 242

The flop reads [10s][8s][5d] when Matas Cimbolas gets all in for 31,500 from the small blind. UTG+1 is also all in for a little over 10,000, and Ryan Pang has them both covered from late position. Here is a look at their cards.

Pang: [Ks][Kc]
Cimbolas: [8h][5h]
UTG+1: [9h][7h]

Turn and River: [Qs][3s]

Cimbolas and UTG+1 are eliminated on the hand, and Pang stacks up 142,000 after collecting the pot.

Shooting Star Chino Rheem Leads After 4 Levels


Blinds are up to 300/500 with a 500 ante and it is Shooting Star Chino Rheem sitting atop the chipcount leaderboard.

Rheem is up to 165,000, leading a handful of players who have climbed above the 100,000-stack mark - including Ian Kalman (130,000), Alex Foxen (125,000), Chance Kornuth (120,000) David Kelsey (115,000) and Craig Varnell (105,000).

Lester Lenart Doubles Up

Level 4
Blinds: 200-300 with a big blind ante of 300
Players: 229

Lester Lenart is all in for 11,500 holding [Ad][Ah] from the small blind, and the cutoff has him covered holding [9d][8d] with the flop reading [9c][3c][3s]. The turn and river then follow [6d][Kc]. Lenart doubles up to survive with 24,000 after collecting the pot.

Shooting Star Jared Griener Eliminated

Robert Heidorn - 3rd last night at the WPT Rolling Thunder $5,000 Main Event ($122,105) - has eliminated Shooting Star Jared Griener early in Level 4, collecting the medal, the t-shirt and a $2,000 payout.

Varnell's Set Holds


Shooting Star Craig Varnell and a single challenger have already built a 29,000 pot on the turn with the board reading [Jc] [2d] [5h] [Ac].

Varnell adds an additional 18,700 bet on the [9h] river and his challenger debates quite some time before placing out four 5k chips for a call.

[5d] [5s] is turned up, a flopped set for Varnell.

[As] [Jh] is shown by the challenger, TopTop that turned two pair and was behind all the way.

Varnell is the first Shooting Star to reach the 100,000-stack mark.

Break Time

The players are taking their first 15-minute break of the day.

Maxwell Young vs. Alexander Greenblatt

Level 2
Blinds: 100-200 with a big blind ante of 200
Entries: 223

Alexander Greenblatt raises to 700 preflop, and Maxwell Young calls before the flop is dealt [Kd][10c][5s]. Both players contribute another 1,000 before the turn falls [4h].

Both players check before the river delivers the [3h]. Young bets 1,800, and Greenblatt check-folds. Young is up to 49,000 after the hand, and Greenblatt is down to 40,500.

McCarrel Takes Some from Elias

We pick up action on the turn with 19,500 already in the pot and Shooting Star Darren Elias matching up against Casey McCarrel (7th yesterday at the WPT Rolling Thunder).

McCarrel leads out for 8,500 on the [2c][4h][5h][8d] board. Elias, winner of yesterday's $2,100 prelim, takers pause, and decides to release his hand.

McCarrel moves to 49,000 Elias to 45,000.

Familiar Faces

Level 1
Ante: 200
Blinds: 100-200

In addition to the Shooting Star bounties, other familiar faces in the field include Maxwell Young, Jasthi Kumar, Peter Neff, Alexander Greenblatt, Amir Lehavot, Nick Pupillo, Andrew Moreno, Alex Papazian, Brandon Zuidema, Casey McCarrel, Rayo Kniep, Joe Nguyen, Donald Maloney, Hiroaki Harada, Noel Rodriguez, Brett Murray.

Early Bounty Arrivals


Among the $2,000 Shooting Star Bounties with a stack in play here in Level 1 is defending champion Deep Pulusani, Darren Elias, Chance Kornuth, Shannon Shorr, Uncle Ron (below), Kristen Bicknell, Lexy Gavin, Loni Harwood, Alex Foxen, Craig Varnell, Steve 'Chainsaw' Dempsey (above), Anthony Zinno, Chino Rheem, Joe Nguyen, Mike Matusow, Jared Griener, Jake Schwartz, Tyler Patterson and the just-now-arriving Frank Stepuchin.



Level 1
Ante 200
Blinds 100.200

Welcome to Shooting Star

Cards are in the air for Day 1 of the $5,200 Shooting Star, players settling in to their seats with 40,000 stacks, playing 11 levels today.

Registration and the re-entry period is open until the start of Level 10 at 4:45 pm. Levels are 40-minutes long during the registration period, moving to hour-long levels once registration closes.

Day 1 play wraps up at about 6:45 pm when the Bag-n-Tag takes place.

Now, about those bounties.

There's a $2,000 Bounty on a wide array of players in today's field. We'll be updating you throughout the tournament on who earns a Bay 101 T-Shirt with the bounty's picture on it.

Why?

Because that goes along with a $2,000 payout for eliminating a bounty player.