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 [...]

Of the 54 players that made it to the dinner break, 9 will go home empty handed.  Clayton “Clayton_27″ Newman (right) was one of the unfortunate nine, eliminated in 50th place just 5 spots short of the money.  Clayton moved in for 40k with pocket tens and ran into aces to come up just short [...]

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 [...]

The players designated as Shooting Stars each have a $5k bounty on their head, and a fair amount of those bounties have been collected so far today.  Phil Hellmuth, Lee Watkinson, John Juanda, Andy Bloch, Jerry Yang, Erik Seidel and David Singer are just a few of the official bounties already out of the competition, [...]

After 5 hours of play the starting field of 135 for day 1A play has been reduced to only 99 players and down to 11 tables, taking up only a small portion of the tournament area and leaving plenty of room for cash games and single table satellites, along with the final table of the [...]