YouTube video: Matt Berkey interview

Matt Berkey is interviewed by tournament director Matt Savage as the players had just hit the money in the 2011 WPT $10k Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament

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YouTube video: Steve "Chainsaw" Dempsey interview

Steve "Chainsaw" Dempsey is interviewed by tournament director Matt Savage as the players had just hit the money in the 2011 WPT $10k Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament

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Redrawing at 36 for 6-handed tables

With the elimination of the 37th player, the clock has been paused, and the remaining 36 players will now be redrawn into six 6-handed tables.  All remaining players are now guaranteed $18,400, with the pay jumps coming at every six eliminations.  We have a new featured table with Ty Reiman, JJ Liu, and Dan "KingDan" Smith.

YouTube video: Dan "KingDan" Smith interview

Dan "KingDan" Smith is interviewed by tournament director Matt Savage as the players had just hit the money in the 2011 WPT $10k Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament

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YouTube video: Layne Flack: bubble boy

Layne Flack was all in preflop holding pocket jacks against his opponent's AK. When his opponent hit a king on the river, Layne became the official bubble boy of the 2011 WPT Shooting Stars tournament

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Players are now in the money

With 46 players left in the tournament, play had gone hand for hand.  There had been a few allins, but no eliminations yet.  On table 23, a player had raised and Matt Berkey had called before Layne Flack moved all in.  The original raiser folded, and Matt called, tabling AK.  It was a race as Layne had pocket jacks.  The board ran out clean until a king hit the river, making Layne Flack the official bubble boy.  The day wasn't all bad for Layne, however, as he banked $15,000 for eliminating three bounties.  All remaining players are now guaranteed $15,000, with 1st place paying $1,013,500 + $25,500 WPT seat.

Jen Harman makes a good read

Jen Harman has had a few ups and downs today, and unfortunately her most recent hand was one of the latter.  Jen had 3-bet preflop before Joris Springael cold 4-bet.  Jen called, and the flop fell ace-ten-ten.  Both players checked, and a third ten came on the turn.  Joris check-called Jen's bet, and they both saw a jack fall on the river.  Joris checked one more time, and after thinking for a bit, Jen checked behind.  Jen showed AQ for a full house, tens full of aces, but Joris had rivered the best hand as he held pocket jacks for jacks full of tens.  Jen was unlucky to have her opponent hit a 2-outer on the river, but she had a great check to keep her in the tournament right outside of the money bubble.

20k or 120k?

 

Some controversy broke out on table 23 when Layne Flack (above right) checked the river and Matt Berkey (above left) bet.  Matt had bet "120" dark before the river hit for 120,000, but Layne had thought the bet was 20,000.  Layne called, but a floor had to be called over to decide the bet amount.  A few players at the table all chimed in that they heard "120," as did a few members of the media.  Tournament director Matt Savage ruled the bet 120,000, and Layne was forced to put most of his chips in the middle.  Layne had top pair, top kicker with his AK, but Matt had made a straight.  Layne is left crippled with approximately 50,000, and is very steamed at the decision.  With the blinds at 2k/4k, it is anticipated that Layne will be all in a few times before the end of this level.

Lots of chips on the featured table!

The featured table has been a wrecking ground for players today, and before the dinner break began, Jonathan Little busted out, making way for three new players to come to the table, including Shooting Star bounty Jennifer Harman.  53 players remain in the tournament, and the top 45 pay.  There is a total of 12.45 million chips in play among the six remaining tables, and the featured table has a whopping 3.855 million on it, or almost 31% of the total chips in play.  You can watch the live stream when the players return from dinner break at 7:10pm by clicking on "Watch LIVE" Video at the top of this page.  Here are the players seated here and their respective chip counts:

Seat 1 - Jennifer Harman - 243,000
Seat 2 - Andrew Weisner - 434,000
Seat 3 - Joris Springael - 475,000
Seat 4 - Josh "JJProdigy" Field - 274,000
Seat 5 - Gary Tighe - 239,000
Seat 6 - Vivek Rajkumar - 572,500
Seat 7 - Galen Hall - 698,500
Seat 8 - Steve "Chainsaw" Dempsey - 480,000
Seat 9 - Brian Schmidt - 439,500

Photo blog: Chip leaders

Vivek Rajkumar

Zackary Clark

Andrew Weisner

YouTube video: Kara Scott doubles up

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Photo blog: Day 2 bounties

2011 champion McLean Karr (right) was eliminated by Layne Flack (left)

Phil Hellmuth (left) was eliminated by Vivek Rajkumar (right)

Daniel Negreanu (left) was eliminated by Andrew Weisner (right)

Dwyte Pilgrim (left) was eliminated by Richard Woodall (right)

Gavin Smith (right)

Nam Le (right)

Men "The Master" Nguyen

 Howard Lederer (right)

Jason Mercier (left)

 David Williams (right) was eliminated by Eric Blair (left)

Day 2 - Cards are in the air

The bell has run and cards are now in the air for Day 2 of the Bay 101 $10k WPT Shooting Star tournament.  169 players remain, and but they are still quite a bit away from the 45 players that will make the money.  Tournament director Matt Savage has just announced that the plan is to play down to 24 players today.  The levels will be 90 minutes as opposed to Day 1's 60 minutes, and the blinds will start at 600/12000 with a 200 ante.

You can watch our featured table by clicking on "Watch LIVE Video" at the top of this page.  Here are the players at that table:

SEAT	FIRST	LAST	CHIP COUNT
1	Ryan	Hughes	83,300
2	Bertrand "Elky"	Grospellier	62,200
3	Andrew	Seidman	107,600
4	Andras	Nemeth	32,200
5	Phil	Hellmuth	19,800
6	Vivek	Rajkumar	70,200
7	Galen	Hall	94,300
8	Nicholas	Rainey	73,600
9	Roger	Teska	120,800

Day 2 chip counts & seating assignments

PLACE	FIRST	LAST	CHIP COUNT	TABLE	SEAT
1	Chris	Trapani	197,900	31	7
2	Joris	Srpingael	196,500	37	1
3	Brian	Schmidt	187,700	25	8
4	David "Doc"	Sands	175,000	24	7
5	Justin	Young	165,800	30	2
6	Eric	Moore	160,100	28	1
7	Brandon	Crawford	158,600	23	1
8	Randy	Dorfman	156,500	26	4
9	Shannon	Shorr	147,300	34	4
10	Steven "Chainsaw"	Dempsey	145,400	35	7
11	Benjamin	Hamnett	141,100	23	8
12	Kara	Scott Tobin	137,100	26	5
13	Mehrdad	Nouralishahi	136,000	33	6
14	Zachary	Clark	135,600	37	4
15	David	Ong	135,500	26	2
16	Eric	Blair	134,600	34	6
17	Tyler	Cornell	133,600	42	3
18	Chris	Ferguson	133,200	41	5
19	Layne	Flack	131,300	33	2
20	Danny	Smith	130,100	41	6
21	Mike	Matusow	127,200	42	5
22	Hafiz	Khan	126,500	35	4
23	Richard	Toth	126,200	28	7
24	Alan	Sternberg	125,300	36	4
25	Owen	Crowe	125,000	24	1
26	Jordan	Young	121,700	32	1
27	Roger	Teska	120,800	22	9
28	Eric	Froehlich	120,500	32	7
29	Kyle	Julius	120,400	29	2
30	John	Monnette	119,400	25	1
31	Tyler	Reiman	118,800	26	8
32	Daniel	Smith	116,200	25	6
33	Taylor	Raines	116,100	43	1
34	Bryan	Paris	115,500	28	4
35	Minh	Nguyen	115,200	28	2
36	Marton	Czuczor	114,200	31	2
37	Shawn	Lawrence	110,800	41	1
38	Gary	Miceli	109,900	33	7
39	Andrew	Weisner	109,700	28	6
40	Hung "Peter"	Tran	108,500	43	8
41	Andrew	Seidman	107,600	22	3
42	Edmond	Genovese	104,300	42	9
43	Romik	Vartzar	103,100	41	8
44	Gary	Tighe	102,900	37	9
45	Kfir	Nahum	101,800	27	1
46	Jonathan	Little	100,100	41	2
47	Randy	Gil	98,700	30	9
48	Jesse	Rockwitz	98,700	33	9
49	Brandon	Cantu	98,400	23	6
50	Ronald	Li	95,500	29	8
51	Ahmad Palang	Atiqi	95,400	30	3
52	Galen	Hall	94,300	22	7
53	Michael	Benvenuti	92,000	42	4
54	Casey	McCarrel	91,400	43	4
55	Marco	Johnson	89,700	42	7
56	Yevgeniy	Timoshenko	87,600	23	5
57	David	Forster	87,300	25	9
58	John	Juanda	86,200	30	5
59	Gavin	Smith	84,500	34	5
60	Rudy	Blondeau	83,800	24	9
61	Tam	Nguyen	83,700	34	7
62	Mike	Sexton	83,600	24	5
63	Ryan	Hughes	83,300	22	1
64	Joanne "JJ"	Liu	82,900	23	9
65	Richard	Harroch	80,400	41	4
66	Lorenzo	Sabato	78,500	26	6
67	Chau	Vu	78,400	28	3
68	Steven	Kelly	77,700	34	9
69	Tuan	Nguyen	77,500	32	8
70	Noah	Lathrop	76,000	43	9
71	Ryan	Schmidt	76,000	32	9
72	Tommy	Chen	75,500	26	9
73	Dash	Dudley	75,000	24	6
74	Lu	Wang	74,100	23	2
75	Nicholas	Rainey	73,600	22	8
76	Dan	Santoro	71,800	33	3
77	Mark	Dickstein	70,600	37	8
78	Frederick "Sage"	Clayton	70,500	31	1
79	Pat	Pezzin	70,300	27	8
80	Vivek	Rajkumar	70,200	22	6
81	Marcos Neves	Da Silva	68,200	30	4
82	Robert	Thompson	67,300	42	2
83	Jaime	Guizar	66,900	36	7
84	Lee	Markholt	65,900	34	8
85	Scott	Lipshutz	65,700	26	3
86	McLean	Karr	65,500	33	5
87	David	Peters	65,000	36	6
88	Daniel	Negreanu	64,100	28	5
89	Kathy	Liebert	63,900	25	5
90	Jennifer	Harman	62,800	27	5
91	Alex	Keating	62,500	23	7
92	John	Velasquez	62,300	24	3
93	Bertrand "Elky"	Grospellier	62,200	22	2
94	Matt	Berkey	62,000	30	7
95	Hoyt	Corkins	61,600	37	5
96	Nicklas	Alf	61,500	35	1
97	Michael	Kucinski	61,500	33	1
98	David	Williams	60,500	31	5
99	Jason	Wheeler	60,400	29	9
100	Howard	Lederer	57,500	43	5
101	Alex	Yi	57,200	31	8
102	Daniel	O'Brien	56,700	29	3
103	Michael	Pesek	55,900	28	8
104	Francesco	Conte	55,500	43	2
105	Yardena	Zilberstein	55,400	27	2
106	Brian	Park	55,100	34	1
107	Steve	Brecher	53,400	24	8
108	Toto	Leonidas	51,000	41	3
109	Dwyte	Pilgrim	50,200	29	5
110	Chanh	Pham	49,100	43	6
111	Quinn	Do	47,900	35	6
112	Todd	Terry	47,600	37	3
113	Yelena	Vaysberg	47,500	28	9
114	Andy	Gamboa	46,900	29	4
115	Travis	Carson	46,600	42	6
116	Tahir	Ahmad	46,400	43	3
117	John	Pires	46,000	35	8
118	Giovanni	Sigurta	46,000	27	4
119	Nam	Le	45,600	32	5
120	Chris	McCormack	45,000	36	3
121	Thor	Hansen	42,600	26	7
122	Pat	Walsh	41,600	37	6
123	Gustavo	Eydelsteyn	40,400	30	8
124	Guy	Hudas	39,500	25	7
125	Brandon	Steven	38,700	29	1
126	Kenneth	Go	37,900	32	2
127	Mark Randal	Flowers	35,900	32	3
128	Greg	Sessler	35,800	25	3
129	Jerry	Chea	33,900	36	1
130	Men "The Master"	Nguyen	33,900	36	5
131	Matt	Affleck	32,700	27	9
132	Weikai	Chang	32,600	23	3
133	Joshua	Field	32,400	27	3
134	Andras	Nemeth	32,200	22	4
135	Stephen	O'Dwyer	31,500	32	6
136	Michael	Amigleo	30,800	31	3
137	Richard	Woodall	30,600	29	6
138	Lauren	Kling	30,400	37	7
139	Luke	Nettles	29,300	23	4
140	Grantland	Hillman	29,200	26	1
141	Shawn	Buchanan	28,300	32	4
142	Eric	Nichelson	27,900	36	9
143	Patrick	Mahoney	26,900	35	3
144	Marko	Trapani, Jr.	26,000	31	9
145	Kevin	MacPhee	25,600	24	4
146	Ynesa	Paberzs	25,200	29	7
147	Salim	Batshon	25,100	25	4
148	Tom	Sego	25,000	33	8
149	Neil	Webber	24,500	33	4
150	Daniel	Gelbinovich	23,100	35	2
151	Jason	Dollinger	22,900	36	8
152	Ryan	Milisits	22,400	35	9
153	Jason	Mercier	21,300	35	5
154	Brandon	Meyer	21,300	43	7
155	James	Carroll	20,600	27	6
156	David	Frazee	20,600	42	8
157	Zach	Hyman	20,500	30	1
158	Andrew	Forslind	20,000	34	2
159	Phil	Hellmuth	19,800	22	5
160	Surinder	Singh	19,500	24	2
161	Bata	Davidovic	19,300	42	1
162	Nathan	Szoke	19,300	31	6
163	Stella	Su	17,000	36	2
164	Bob	Campbell	16,500	25	2
165	Bryan	Leskowitz	16,100	31	4
166	Ben	Palmer	15,500	30	6
167	Lanini	Davor	13,900	37	2
168	Payman	Arjang	13,100	41	7
169	David	Gonzalez	10,300	27	7
170	Jimmy	Viglizzo	9,200	41	9