WPT No Limit Hold'em Championship Final Day Results & Report
Bay 101 Shooting Star / WPT Event Season 6
| WPT No Limit Hold'em Championship Final Day |
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Bay 101 1801 Bering Drive San Jose, CA, 95112, US Full Schedule |
The final table of the Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship had only one Shooting
Star in residence. Jennifer Harman was the...Read more Profile: Brandon Cantu |
Date: March 14, 2008 Buy-In: $9,600 + $400 Prizepool: $3,609,600 Entries: 376 Game Type: No Limit Hold'em |
| Place | Country | Name | Prize |
| 1 |  USA |
Brandon Cantu | $1,000,000 |
| 2 | USA |
Steve Sung AKA "MuGGyLiCiOuS" | $585,000 |
| 3 | USA |
Jennifer Harman Traniello AKA "Jen" | $330,000 |
| 4 | USA |
Noah Jefferson AKA "The Wrangler" | $265,000 |
| 5 | USA |
Mike Baker | $200,000 |
| 6 | USA |
John Bon Phan AKA "The Razor" | $135,000 |
| 7 | USA |
J.C Tran | $68,000 |
| 8 | USA |
David Tran | $68,000 |
| 9 | USA |
Lee Watkinson | $44,000 |
| 10 | USA |
Jason Gray | $44,000 |
| 11 | USA |
Thanh Phung | $33,000 |
| 12 | USA |
Eric J. Nickelson | $33,000 |
| 13 | USA |
Rich Belsky | $24,000 |
| 14 | USA |
Clonie Gowen | $24,000 |
| 15 | USA |
Ed Fernandez | $24,000 |
| 16 | USA |
Dan Morris | $24,000 |
| 17 | USA |
Chanh Pham | $24,000 |
| 18 | USA |
Paul Niemela | $24,000 |
| 19 | USA |
George Panagakis | $20,000 |
| 20 |  Australia |
Joe Hachem AKA "Hash" | $20,000 |
| 21 | USA |
Thanh Che | $20,000 |
| 22 | USA |
Andrew Robl | $20,000 |
| 23 | USA |
Michael Migdol | $20,000 |
| 24 | USA |
Blair Hinkle | $20,000 |
| 25 | USA |
Ted Forrest | $16,000 |
| 26 | USA |
Matthew Holtzclaw | $16,000 |
| 27 | USA |
Jimmy Tran | $16,000 |
| 28 | USA |
JP Byrne AKA "The Ghost" | $16,000 |
| 29 | USA |
Lu Wang | $16,000 |
| 30 | USA |
Anna Wroblewski AKA "poker pixie" | $16,000 |
| 31 | USA |
Kent Washington | $13,500 |
| 32 | USA |
Tim Foster | $13,500 |
| 33 | USA |
Neil Webber | $13,500 |
| 34 | USA |
Paul Wasicka AKA "Kwickfish" | $13,500 |
| 35 | USA |
Layne Flack AKA "back-2-back flack" | $13,500 |
| 36 |  Canada |
Robert Cheung AKA "RCW" | $13,500 |
| 37 | Canada |
Isabelle Mercier AKA "No Mercy" | $10,000 |
| 38 | USA |
Serena Liu | $10,000 |
| 39 | USA |
Tuan Le | $10,000 |
| 40 | USA |
Gerald Balfour AKA "scottie B" | $10,000 |
| 41 | USA |
Erick Lindgren | $10,000 |
| 42 | USA |
Michael Binger | $10,000 |
| 43 | USA |
Neil Ho | $10,000 |
| 44 | USA |
Taylor Raines | $10,000 |
| 45 | USA |
Joe Graziano | $10,000 |
Tournament Report
| The final table of the Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship had only one Shooting
Star in residence. Jennifer Harman was the last bounty remaining. She was also
the last female in the tournament and was facing four tough pros and an amateur
with a big stack.
John 'the Razor' Phan was the short stack coming to the table. He made a valiant effort, but finally had to put his last chips in with Q8 suited, only to run into the pocket 6s of Noah Jefferson. John finished 6th. Mike Baker was the only amateur at this final table and he arrived with lots of chips, but apparently the pressure of facing down 5 pros was too much for him. He called off all his chips with nothing but a flush draw against monster chip leader Brandon Cantu, who had the monster hand pocket Aces. Mike couldn't catch one of his outs and was ousted in 5th place. The final four players battled for more than four hours while each tried to get a leg up on the chip leader. Noah Jefferson ended up getting his chips in with AK against Steve Sung's pocket 7s. Noah couldn't win the race and was sent to the rail in 4th place. Jennifer Harman went out the same way: all-in with AK against Brandon's pocket 9s. Jennifer also couldn't win a race and left in 3rd place. Brandon Cantu collected his 6th bounty of the tournament for busting her. Heads-up play started with Brandon having a more than 4-to-1 chip lead on Steve Sung and only took 16 hands. In the end, Steve got his chips in with pocket 3s, only to find he was badly beaten by Brandon's pocket 4s. No miracle for Steve and he finished in 2nd place. Brandon Cantu is the Shooting Star champion and now he has a WPT title to go with his WSOP bracelet. |
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