The Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament got down to the final 36 players last night, and when those players returned this morning it was to 6 handed play that will continue all the way down to the final 6.  To start the day the final 60 minutes of the 2k / 4k with a 500 [...]

Name
Hometown
Table
Seat

1
Michael Kamran
570,500
2
5

2
Tony Behari
548,000
5
5

3
Chris Moore
539,500
5
4

4
Daniel Obrien
478,000
2
1

5
John Monnette
459,000
2
2

6
Tyler Cornell
425,000
3
4

7
Kathy Liebert
405,000
4
3

8
Chau Vu
315,500
5
2

9
Steve Dempsey
302,500
6
2

10
Paul Wasicka
297,000
2
3

11
Gary Tighe
271,500
2
6

12
Farzad Bonyadi
245,500
6
4

13
Luis Veledor
236,500
4
4

14
Louis Razzano
210,500
3
2

15
Taylor Raines
195,000
4
1

16
Amnon Filippi
180,000
6
6

17
David Fox
165,500
1
4

18
Tony Gargano
155,500
4
2

19
Steve Brecher
151,500
5
6

20
Marco Johnson
149,500
2
4

21
Jeremy Meier
147,500
4
6

22
Chikong Ng
138,000
6
5

23
Frank Khadivi
136,500
1
6

24
Hoyt Corkins
124,500
1
3

25
Vivek Rajkumar
124,000
3
6

26
Mohsin Charania
121,000
6
1

27
Thao Le
118,500
5
3

28
Joe Sebok
116,500
3
5

29
David Forester
101,000
6
3

30
Jerry Reed
78,000
1
1

31
Raymond Lee
70,500
4
5

32
Michael Nguyen
67,000
5
1

33
Matt Lessinger
64,500
3
1

34
Robert Fox
47,000
3
3

35
Long Lai
35,000
1
5

36
Vikaly Yarkov
30,500
1
2

It didn’t take long after reaching the money for 9 more players to be eliminated, bringing the field down to the final 36 playesr and ending play for the night.  The remaining entrants will come back tomorrow at noon and play down to the final 6.  Faraz “The-toilet” Jaka was among the chip leaders for [...]

Usually the money bubble is a stage of tournaments where players like Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar and Faraz “The-toilet” Jaka excel.  Here at Bay 101 things didn’t go so well for either, though both did make it into the money.  Vivek kept running into Luis Velador and by the time the money bubble was over he [...]