WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Wednesday Feb 16, 2005

This week on ESPN, the World Poker Tour will be in the San Francisco Bay area with the new tournament event WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star no-limit Texas Hold'Em shootout. The World Poker Tour (WPT) is just beginning its 8th season with a host of amateur poker players, professionals, and celebs, in a competition having a $1,000,000 prize pool and a seat in the WPT Championship. This tournament has a rather interesting twist included. Some of the pros have a price on their heads and there is a "bounty" of $5,000 for each for knocking them out of the tournament, making for a very interesting tournament, indeed. Tune in and see just who will take home the cash and title "Champion."

The last episode began with antes of $2,000 and SBs of $6,000 and BBs of $12, 000. James Tippin and Barry Greenstein squared off when Tippin limped with wired J's, but Greenstein found Ah-Kh, raising him $300,000. Tippin called, but after a flop of K-T-3 rainbow, Greenstein went all in and forced Tippin to fold with half his chips in. After that, Tony Hartman went all-in with Ad-Js, but he ran into Randy Jensen, who called Hartman's raise when he found Ah-Qd. When the board came As, Kd, Kh, Tc, 8h, Tony left the building in 6th place with $120,927, giving Jensen the chip lead.

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The Bay 101 Final Table Seminar
February 25-27, 2005
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