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Bay 101 Shooting Star / WPT Event Season 6

WPT No Limit Hold'em Championship
Final Day
March 14, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Bay 101
Tournament Schedule
Buy-In $9,600 + $400
Prize Pool $3,609,600
Entries 376
Report Available
Brandon Cantu

Brandon Cantu

Place Name Prize
1 Brandon Cantu (Vancouver, WA, USA) $1,000,000
2 Steve Sung AKA "MuGGyLiCiOuS" (Torrance, CA, USA) $585,000
3 Jennifer Harman Traniello (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $330,000
4 Noah Jefferson AKA "The Wrangler" (Santa Monica, CA, USA) $265,000
5 Mike Baker (West Siloam Springs, AR, USA) $200,000
6 John Phan (Los Angeles, CA, USA) $135,000
7 J.C. Tran (Sacramento, CA, USA) $68,000
8 David Tran (El Monte, CA, USA) $68,000
9 Lee Watkinson (Cheney, WA, USA) $44,000
10 Jason Gray (Portland, OR, USA) $44,000
11 Thanh Phung (USA) $33,000
12 Eric J. Nickelson (San Jose, CA, USA) $33,000
13 Rich Belsky (USA) $24,000
14 Clonie Gowen (Dallas, TX, USA) $24,000
15 Ed Fernandez (San Jose, CA, USA) $24,000
16 Dan Morris (San Francisco, CA, USA) $24,000
17 Chanh Pham (USA) $24,000
18 Paul Niemela (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $24,000
19 George Panagakis (Newport Beach, CA, USA) $20,000
20 Joe Hachem (Melbourne, Australia) $20,000
21 Thanh Che (USA) $20,000
22 Andrew Robl (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $20,000
23 Michael Migdol (USA) $20,000
24 Blair Hinkle (Weatherby Lake, MO, USA) $20,000
25 Ted Forrest (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $16,000
26 Matthew Holtzclaw (Elk Grove, CA, USA) $16,000
27 Jimmy Tran (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $16,000
28 JP Byrne (USA) $16,000
29 Lu Wang (Fremont, CA, USA) $16,000
30 Anna Wroblewski AKA "poker pixie" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $16,000
31 Kent Washington (Oakland, CA, USA) $13,500
32 Tim Foster $13,500
33 Neil Webber (Austin, TX, USA) $13,500
34 Paul Wasicka AKA "Kwickfish" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $13,500
35 Layne Flack (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $13,500
36 Robert Cheung AKA "RCW" (Vancouver, BC, Canada) $13,500

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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