After defeating Kathy Liebert in heads up play Steve Brecher (right) has claimed the title at the Bay 101 Shooting Star World Poker Tour tournament and gets the $5k bounty for eliminating Liebert.  The $5k seems kind of insignificant though, since the victory itself it worth $1 million dollars and a $25,500 seat into the [...]

After a long day of play, the action is finally down to the final 2 players.  Kathy Liebert is one player away from being the first woman ever to win an open World Poker Tour event, but that one person is Steve Brecher and he happens to be sitting on a 2.5 - 1 chip [...]

Three handed play has been exceptionally long, and continues on.  Give credit, or blame, to the Matt Savage tournament structure that continues to allow for so much play.  At one point Steve Brecher was all in and on the verge of elimination with his AQ against the AK of then chip leader Kathy Liebert.  On [...]

After the two early eliminations the qulity of the structure kicked in and play slowed down, or at least the bust outs did.  The blinds are up to 10k / 20k with a 3k ante but the average stack is just under 2 million meaning the average stack has 100 big blinds.  As the chips [...]

In less than two orbits around the table two players have already been eliminated from the World Poker Tour final table.  Chau Vu (right) was the short stack starting the day, but was all smiles just to be at the final table.  Final table play started with blinds of 6k / 12k with a 2k [...]