11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth had his sights set on his first WPT title but failed to rack up the win.
While the biggest story line heading into the final table of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star was whether 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth would finally win his first ever WPT title, another lesser noticed but equally monumental story was if a member of the Davidson Matthew Club could once again take down an event, returning glory to the guys whose first names are last names and last names first and who seemingly won every other tournament a few years back.
In the end it was the latter that played out as Hellmuth exited early in sixth and the newly inducted Davidson Matthew Club member McLean Karr went on to take down the tournament and its $878,500 first place prize.
In second was the doubly first named Andy “BKiCe” Seth ($521,200), who entered the final table as the chip leader and runner-up’d last summer in an event at the 2009 WSOP.
In third was Dan O’Brien ($292,800). And no, not this Dan O’Brien.
For full results and recap go here.
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We expect Phil Hellmuth to be very humble if he wins his first WPT title.
Phil Hellmuth continued his good run at the
WPT Bay 101, making the final table second in chips, stacked at 1,433,000. Hellmuth has never won a WPT title…until…
dare we predict…today?
Hellmuth only trails the doubley-first-named Andy Seth with 2,164,000. In fifth overall is Hasan Habib, who is actually still alive, with 455,000.
Special mention of Scotty Nguyen, who finished 8th and cashed for $58,600. Take a quick look at his track record…it’s pretty sick and remarkably consistent.
Get full final table chip counts here.
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Phil Hellmuth is in contention for that ever-elusive(TM) first WPT title.
While
Phil Hellmuth may have 11 WSOP bracelets and a NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship title to his credit, he’s still never one a
World Poker Tour event.
Maybe that changes this week. Could the re-evaluation of his game that Daniel Negreanu tweeted about last week be working this quickly?
With 27 players remaining, Hellmuth is the chip leader at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star, stacked at 550,000. He’s followed by Hasan Habib, who is still alive, with 496,000.
Other notables remaining include Nick Schulman (381,500), a near shoe-in for WPT Player of the Year now Faraz Jaka (332,500), Chau Giang (307,500), and NAPT Venetian winner Thomas Marchese (117,500).
Get full chip counts here.
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J.C. Tran (above) ended Day 1B at the WPT Bay 101 in a familiar spot: among the chip leader.
In total, the
WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event brought in 333 players to create a first prize of $878,500. This is down from 391 last year and a $1,025,500 top prize. Damn you, The Economy
TM!
Day 1B ended with Eugene Katchalov as chip leader, stacked at 131,500. Other notable big stacks for the day include but are certainly not limited to Scotty Nguyen (99,000), Sorel Mizzi (97,600), and the spectacularly-breasted J.C. Tran (93,100).
Get full chip counts and follow Day 2 here.
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WPT Bay 101 chip leader Vanna Tea, a woman, likely has relatives who look like Nozomi Sasaki (above).
A total of 136 entered Day 1A of the
World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event, with 56 making it to Day 2.
Vanessa Tea, a woman, ended the flight as chip leader, stacked at 143,900. She’s followed by Greg Mueller with 132,800.
Of the 17 “shooting starsTM” who started Monday, six survived (the aforementioned Mueller, Daniel Negreanu, Steve Brecher, half-man, half-amazing Freddy Deeb, Mike Matusow, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko). The aforementioned Timoshenko ended the day fourth in chips with 97,600. Scott Montgomery, who we thought quit, but maybe that was just blogging since he’s been grinding out some 2010 cashes, was fifth with 84,800.
Get full chip counts here.
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Seen Above: ClubWPT.com qualifier LeRon Washington contemplating how he qualified for the WPT Celebrity Invitational by qualifying on ClubWPT.com.
In possibly the best possible advertisement for
ClubWPT.com imaginable, LeRon Washington, an online qualifier through ClubWPT.com (people really play that huh), won the
WPT Celebrity Invitational.
For the win, LeRon, who qualified on ClubWPT.com, banks $100,000 and a seat into the $25,000 WPT championship in April. All that just for qualifying at ClubWPT.com.
Sean Urban, who did not qualify on ClubWPT.com, finished second for $50,000. Another non- ClubWPT.com qualifier, Trishelle Canatella, placed third for $20,000.
Read all about the ClubWPT.com qualifiers win here.
In related news, follow the WPT LA Poker Classic final table, where six non-ClubWPT.com qualifiers vie for a $1.7M first place prize, starting at 4pm PST here.
ClubWPT.com.
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