On March 5, 2012, WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star will kick off with 49 “Shooting Stars” in the field all with $5,000 bounties on their heads. The $10,000 buy-in event takes place at the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, Ca., with one of the most unique formats seen on tour every season. A list of some of the biggest names in poker is put together every year and a bounty assigned to them. Players who knock out a Shooting Star will receive that $5,000 bounty to go along with their newly-won chips.
Despite wearing targets throughout the tournament and having every player at every table try to bust them out, the WPT televised final table of WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars regularly features some of those big name poker pros, and last year was no different. In fact, WPT’s own Mike Sexton was one of those players last year and sat down at the final table with Mike Matusow and Vivek Rajkumar, who was at his second WPT final table in less than a month. Eventual WPT Champion Alan Sternberg, who walked away with $1,039,00 for his win, sees himself as a target this year and will be fighting off players looking to collect his $5,000 bounty when the tournament gets underway.
On top of the bounties on offer, there is also a $10,000 bonus that will go to the chipleader of Day 1A and then again to the chipleader of Day 1B.
Here is the current list of Shooting Stars:
Allen Bari
Liv Boeree
Todd Brunson
Allen Cunningham
Freddy Deeb
Jonathan Duhamel
Antonio Esfandiari
Will Failla
Andy Frankenberger
Chau Giang
Matt Giannetti
Barry Greenstein
Bertrand Grospellier
Tony “G” Guoga
Joe Hachem
Christian Harder
Jennifer Harman
Phil Hellmuth
Maria Ho
Linda Johnson
John Juanda
Eugene Katchalov
Phil Laak
Ben Lamb
Nam Le
Kathy Liebert
Erick Lindgren
Mike Matusow
Jason Mercier
Michael Mizrachi
Chris Moorman
Daniel Negreanu
Men Nguyen
Scotty Nguyen
Dwyte Pilgrim
Marvin Rettenmaier
David “Chino” Rheem
Erik Seidel
Scott Seiver
Mike Sexton
Gavin Smith
Fabrice Soulier
Sam Stein
Alan Sternberg – Reigning Champion
Joe Tehan
Jennifer Tilly
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
JC Tran
David Williams
Note: There may be last minute cancellations, additions or substitutions.
If you want a chance to take down a Shooting Star for the $5,000 bounty as well as getting the full WPT experience of hanging out with poker pros and the whole WPT family, then sign up for ClubWPT.com (WPT’s VIP subscription-based membership website*) and play for a seat to WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star on Sunday, February 12th, at 4pm ET / 1pm PT. Stay tuned for more details.
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