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 six full levels of play the players have just finished up the 150 / 300 level and completed the first day of play.  The action will resume tomorrow at noon with blinds of 200 / 400 with a 50 ante.  Late eliminations included Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein, at the hands of Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers, Adam [...]

With the deep starting stacks of 45,000 chips and low blinds there hasn’t been all that much action so far. Most pots go something along the lines of one player raising to 600, another player or two calling preflop, someone betting on the flop and everyone else folding. The players seem impressed with [...]

“I can’t fold,” was what Russell “rdcrsn” Carson had to say when the action got back around to him, and his statement summed up the situation. After some preflop raising Carson had added 14,400 to what was out there, representing about half his stack and Tyler “brainwash” Cornell had moved all in having Carson [...]