Day 1A Complete
by Court on 03.17.09, 2:10 am
At the end of the 10 levels of play for day 1A at the Bay 101 Shooting Star the board showed only 50 players. The end of day excitement involved a prop bet between Kenny Tran and Will Failla on how many players would be left at the end of the day. Tran had the over on 50, while Will needed the number to get to 50 or below to win the side bet. With the last hand dealt and 51 players left it looked like Kenny was going to come out ahead, though both he and Will were involved in the last hands at their respective tables.
Chad Brown’s elimination of Shawn Buchanon on the very last hand remaining for the night brought a cheer of “ship it” from an excited Failla, who seems to get as much, if not more, enjoyment out of side bets as he does the high stakes poker itself. The 50 remaining players from today’s action have tomorrow off while another set of day 1 players take to the tables tomorrow, and the starting field for tomorrow is expected to be much larger than the 135 that started today. Once all the chip counts are in the leading stack from the day will pick up a $10k bonus, and many of the $5k bounties have already been passed out as Shooting Stars have fallen by the wayside.
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little (left) had a strong run to end the day, involved in a lot of pots with Faraz “The-toilet” Jaka and seemingly having the best of it nearly every time. Little was able to win pots with trip nines, pocket tens on a flop with all kings and a few other pots, eaching time getting small to medium sized bets out of Jaka. Faraz was able to get some chips back when his pocket threes held up to eliminate a short stacked player that had moved all in with the K
T. Jaka (below) finished the day with 95,600, short of his peak for the day but still in very solid position going into day 2 play. Little’s stock rose to 121,300 by the end of the day, putting him among the chip leaders but not in contention for the end of day chip leader bonus that looked to be going to a player with just under 190k.
On the last hand of the day at his table Joe Sebok was able to get his third double up when he moved in over the top of a raise for the last of his 30k stack preflop. The other player thought for a minute before deciding to call with the suspicious holding of A-3. Sebok’s A-K held up and he finished the day with a solid 65,200 after being down to 7k after the dinner break.
Select end of day chip counts:
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little - 121,300
Faraz “The-toilet” Jaka - 95,600 (right)
Annie Duke - 73,800
Joe Sebok - 65,200
Tyler “Brainwash” Cornell - 59,100
Tim “Tmay420″ West - 22,400
