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

Chino	Rheem	335,000
Anthony	Zinno	300,000
Craig	Varnell	195,000
Tyler	Patterson	185,000
Kristen	BIcknell	170,000
Loni	Harwell	105,000
Mike	Matusow	90,000
Lexy	Gavin	86,000
Chainsaw	Dempsey	70,000
Joe	Nguyen	65,000
Frank	Stepuchin	60,000
Darren	Elias	55,000
Alex	Foxen	46,000
Uncle	Ron	41,000
Tim	West	37,000
James	Carroll	33,000
Faraz	Jaka	30,000
Jared	Griener	28,000
Chance	Kornuth	18,000

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.