You would too if you had so many chips. While other players are just trying to survive to the end of the day, Tom “titantom32″ Braband (pictured left) has more pressing issues to deal with–namely, how to transport his ginormous 80K chip stack. To give you a means of comparison, the average stack [...]

As the day continues on the players are starting to drop out.  The blinds recently went up to 800 / 1,600 with a 200 ante and the previous 600 / 1,200 level was also enough to put some pressure on players and resulted in some eliminations.  The field has dropped under 220 players with less [...]

Hoyt Corkins finished up the second level of the day strong busting both Hevad “RainKhan” Khan and Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little.  Aditya “Intervention” Agarwal, Adam “Roothlus” Levy, Amit “Amak316″ Makhija, Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista, Tim “Tmay420″ West, Garrett “Gbecks” Beckman and Zach “CrazyZachary” Clark have all been eliminated as well.  Roughly 90 players made it through the [...]

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, [...]