That's it for Day 1A of the 2014 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star ($7,500 buy-in). 312 players signed up for the first day of the tournament and 117 of them had chips left when the tournament director called it a day after several hours of play. The overnight chip leader is Giorgio Medici with 254,600 and he received the $10,000 prize as the Day 1A chip leader. Other players that bagged up p[...] Read more » WPT BAY 101 Shooting Star: Day 1A Ends With 117 Players
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 56 (M)
Posts: 7371
A lot of big names are already out in this Tournament, just going to prove that any Tournament is extremely difficult to win. Good luck to all those still participating and i await further updates
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 4829
Things will be less mediatic with Daniel Negreanu out of the race, but i'm sure they will keep interesting. I guess it's the first time i read about a prize given in the end of the first day, but sure is a nice deal. Even if this chipleader don't get to the paid places (it can happen, and it's not that rare, everyone who reads pokernews and plays poker knows what i'm talking about) he just guaranteed the return of the buy-in invested and even a consolation prize of more a third of that investment, which, when talking about $2,500, it's not that small!
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 2688
hmm lots of well known players among them, cheers this tournament should be lots of fun with those big names. Hope Daniel wins it or at least make the final table and continue to cement his legend in the poker world. Cheers keep the news coming, I am following all day long when the news pop up!
Joined: Jul '10
Location: Brazil
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 480
um same stars tournament and now starts from your final reya with 117 players we will see who will be the players that will make the final table of this tournament very cool and top I hope you want to MARIA HU POIS I am her fan on top of them baby
