The 14th Annual 2010 Bay 101 Shooting Stars Poker Tournament is underway in San Jose, California.
The WPT Shooting Star Championship No Limit Holdem event is a 5 day tournament with a $10,000 buy-in with $5,000 Bounties. First place receives over $1,000,000 and includes a $25,500 seat in the WPT Championship Event on April 17 at the Bellagio.
Currently there are 95 players left and blinds are at 300/600. Here are recent chip counts of some players:
Sorel “Imperium” Mizzi 105,000
Justin “BoostedJ” Smith 65,000
Phil Laak 61,500
Jerry Yang 59,800
James Mackey 57,000
Hasan Habib 56,225
Scotty Nguyen 53,150
Brandon Cantu 50,000
Nick Schulman 47,975
Shane “Shaniac” Schleger 47,625
Tuan Le 46,000
Phil Hellmuth 45,250
Howard Lederer 45,000
Chau Giang 35,075
Scott Seiver 31,500
Barry Greenstein 27,700
Raymond Doland 27,250
Steve Sung 26,600
Mark Newhouse 23,250
Tyler Reiman 23,025
Mike Sexton 18,500
Matt “AllInAt420″ Stout 15,350
JC Tran 11,300
Eli Elezra 7,450
Jeff Madsen 6,975
Some notable names who have been eliminated today are David Williams, Annie Duke, Erik Seidel, Nam Le, Joe Sebok, Carlos Mortensen, Joe Hachem, Men “The Master” Nguyen, Todd Brunson, John Juanda, Mark Newhouse and Allen Cunningham.
For live, up to the minute coverage and updates go to the Bay 101 Live site, click on the link below:
