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)

Place	First	Last	Chips
1	James	Carroll	297,600
2	Ravee	Mathi	282,000
3	David	Miscikowski	253,900
4	John	Hennigan	248,700
5	Brian	Rast	237,000
6	Justin	Young	224,300
7	Faraz	Jaka	219,700
8	Dean	Freedlander	209,100
9	Saurabh	Patel	180,000
10	Grayson	Ramage	167,000
11	Steve	Na	166,900
12	Anthony	Ajlouny	154,100
13	Joe	Keuether	151,500
14	Igor	Kurganov	151,000
15	Michael	Rocco	151,000
16	Sang	Nguyen	148,400
17	Michael	Mcclain	147,000
18	Matt	Affleck	142,600
19	Michael	Katz	140,400
20	Bryn	Kenney	136,800
21	Joe	Serock	130,900
22	Raymond	Lee	130,100
23	Justin	Kindred	126,300
24	Matt	Stout	126,100
25	Jose	Merino	120,000
26	Rob	Tepper	116,800
27	Garrett	Greer	116,200
28	Jordan	Cristos	111,100
29	Hans	Winzler	105,500
30	Erik	Cajelais	104,400
31	Kumar	Sripadam	101,600
32	Daniel	Kelly	100,500
33	Sajid	Zia	99,600
34	Larry	Wright	95,900
35	Mirsad	Arap	93,600
36	Taylor	Paur	92,700
37	Tyler	Patterson	91,900
38	Mohsin	Charania	91,700
39	Rep	Porter	90,300
40	Aaron	Overton	87,400
41	Ryan	D'Angelo	85,600
42	Allen	Le	84,700
43	Matthew	Diehl	83,700
44	Chung	Ho	83,200
45	Kartaik	Sunraram	82,600
46	Shane	Abbott	82,200
47	Gordan	Vayo	82,200
48	Oliver	Price	75,900
49	Scott	Kaplan	73,900
50	Todd	Brunson	72,300
51	Noah	Bronstein	72,200
52	Julie	Le	72,000
53	Ronald	Wu	71,900
54	Quan	Tran	70,000
55	Thomas	Bolles	69,000
56	Matt	Salsberg	67,800
57	Babt	Dowling	66,500
58	Brian	Aleksa	64,300
59	Charlie	Coultas	63,600
60	Dave	Erisman	62,900
61	Eugene	Katchalov	61,600
62	Steve	Brecher	60,500
63	Rommy	Rounds	59,000
64	Walter	Fisher	57,200
65	Jacob	Bazeley	56,900
66	Dylan	Wilkerson	51,100
67	An	Chen	49,100
68	Giacomo	Fundaro	47,100
69	Dan	Smith	46,800
70	Ryan	Julius	46,500
71	Ted	Bui	45,500
72	Moon	Kim	43,900
73	JJ	Tran	43,100
74	Bruce	Kramer	42,000
75	Mukul	Pahuja	41,500
76	Eric	Werner	41,500
77	Byron	Kavernan	41,300
78	John	Andress	41,000
79	Chang	Luo	40,600
80	David	Bertelsen	40,500
81	Jameer	Aljanedi	40,400
82	Adam	Geyer	40,200
83	Paul	Richardson	39,900
84	Nam	Le	38,700
85	Justo	Avalos	38,400
86	David	Sands	38,400
87	Gal	Yifralh	36,600
88	Darren	Rabinowitz	36,000
89	Darren	Elias	35,600
90	Luis	Velador	34,400
91	Scott	Soth	33,400
92	Kelsey	Hendricks	33,200
93	Nick	Shkolnik	33,200
94	Nick	Schulman	32,500
95	Brian	Cospolich	32,000
96	Eddy	Sabat	29,000
97	Tom	Huynh	28,900
98	Isaac	Basa	27,800
99	Lisa	La	27,400
100	Andrew	Lichtenberger	27,100
101	Quy	Dao	17,500
102	Richard	Lyndaker	17,200
103	Tom	Dobrilovic	14,400
104	Basil	Gimalan	14,400
105	Barry	Hutter	5,000
106	Alex	Greenblat	3,500

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