Día 1a of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star is underway! Tournaments start early here at Bay 101, and play began about ten minutes after the scheduled 10:45 am start.
As is the custom here, there are 25 "Shooting Stars" for each starting day, and each one of them carries a $5,000 bounty -- bust the player, collect the bounty. (And an autographed Shooting Star t-shirt.) There is also a $10,000 bonus to the Day 1a and Day 1b chipleaders.
Brandon Cantu dominated this event last year from wire to wire. He collected the $10,000 bonus for being the Day 1a chipleader, and collected six more bounties along the way ($30,000) to add to his first-place prize of $1 million. On the playdown day with eight players left, Cantu went on one of the most amazing streaks we've ever seen, winning 17 hands in a row. Everything fell Cantu's way for more than 30 minutes, as his bluffs weren't called, and when people challenged him, he had the goods.
Here is the full list of Shooting Stars for the Bay 101 Evento principal:
Día 1A
- miguel binger
- Andy Bloch
- Todd Brunson
- hoyt corkin
- allen cunningham
- freddy deeb
- Annie Duke
- layne flack
- jamie oro
- dan harrington
- Phil Hellmuth
- Juanda juanda
- erick lindgren
- Jonathan Little
- mike matusow
- Nenad médico
- david pham
- Joe Sebok
- erik seidel
- David Singer
- Gavin Smith
- Marco Traniello
- Pablo Wasicka
- Lee Watkinson
- Roberto Williamson
Día 1B
- Brandon Cantú
- Miami John Cerntu
- David Chiu
- TJ Cloutier
- Eli Elezra
- Antonio Esfandiari
- Chris Ferguson
- Ted Forester
- chaugiang
- barry greenstein
- jennifer haman
- Phil Ivey
- Phil Laak
- Nam Le
- Howard Lederer
- kathy libert
- jeff madsen
- Daniel Negreanu
- Hombres Nguyen
- scotty nguyen
- Juan Fan
- jennifer Tilly
- JC Tran
- David Williams
- Jerry Yang