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WPT again lagging behind EPT
Mar 18, 2009
Again the WPT proved that for some reason the EPT has become its big brother instead of the other way around.
When the Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament started there were only 139 players who signed up for the first day (day 1A) and that is a new all time low for the WPT.
25 players in this tournament have been assigned the "Shooting Star" sign which means that the player that knocks them out of the tournament receives $5.000. Among the Shooting Stars in this edition are: Annie Duke, Joe Sebok, Yerry Yang, Freddy Deeb, Jamie Gold, Phil Hellmuth, John Juanda, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow, Nenad Medic, David Pham, Erik Seidel and David Singer.
This is an excellent variation of the "bounty" tournaments you can find on a lot of sites and should attract more players then is happening now.
When the action finally started there were some remarkable hands and some incredible action. Most fun to watch for the spectators was a hand involving Joe Sebok where a suckout/re-suck/re-re-suck happened. On a board of J-7-7 $$$$ showed a full house Jacks over sevens with his pocket Jacks. his opponent was in front before the flop with QQ and when the turn was a Q it all seeemed to go according to the pre flop odds, but a remarkable river saw the last Jack in the deck nestle its way to the table and $$$ won a big pot. A few hands later though most of this gain was lost when on a Q-7-10-4 board a raise from his was called and when the 10 came on the river to pair the board he was pretty sure his 10-7 was good for the winning full house. His opponent had QQ however and had the better full house.
So far we have said goodbye to the following "Shooting Stars": Andy Bloch, Erik Seidel, Jerry Yang, John Juanda, Lee Watkinson and also David Singer had to leave already.
The following is the list so far with "shooting stars" marked
1
Michael Nguyen
198.300
2
David Pham
160.600
"Shooting Star"
3
Conner Stockett
124.500
4
Jonathan Little
121.300
"Shooting Star"
5
Matthew Lessinger
107.700
6
Faraz Jaka
95.600
7
Vikaly Yarkov
87.400
8
Jeff Mince
80.200
9
Chad Brown
77.900
"Shooting Star"
10
Glen Cabana
75.800
12
Annie Duke
73.800
"Shooting Star"
15
Freddy Deeb
68.300
"Shooting Star"
17
Joe Sebok
65.200
"Shooting Star"
18
Kenny Tran
63.700
"Shooting Star"
23
Hoyt Corkins
57.200
"Shooting Star"
25
Matt Keikoan
52.800
30
Steve Brecher
30.700
31
Greg Mueller
30.200
33
Erick Lindgren
27.400
"Shooting Star"
35
Will Failla
26.600
40
Paul Wasicka
23.100
"Shooting Star"
41
Tim West
22.400
43
Maria Ho
20.100
49
Tony Ma
7.900
50
Gavin Smith
7.100
"Shooting Star"
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