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Satellite qualifer Alan Sternberg has a lot to be happy about. About turning his satellite win into a 1 million dollar WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star victory? That's a good start for sure. Ok, it's a great start!
But Sternberg was also able to eliminate Mike "the Mouth" Matusow 3-handed and in the process, collect the last remaining $5,000 bounty.
Matusow was in his 7th WPT Final Table and was hoping that this one would bring his first victory but alas, it didn't; Matusow ran out of steam but still posts an impressive third place finish.
WPT commentator Mike Sexton was the first man out, creating a little less of a problem for the WPT prodution team.
Three players mades moves on the PTPR Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard:
Champion Alan Sternberg's 129 PTPR Points place him 9th on the PTPR Leaderboard.
With his fourth place finish and second consecutive WPT Final Table, Vivek Rajkumar is now 11th with 120 PTPR Points on his two scores.
Finally, Galen Hall collected the minimum available 9 PTPR Points but that's good enough to move him up one spot - to 2nd overall on the PTPR Leaderboard.
Here are the Bay 101 final table payouts:
1st: Alan Sternberg - $1,039,000
2nd: Steven Kelly - $595,300
3rd: Mike Matusow - $369,800
4th: Vivek Rajkumar - $295,800
5th: Casey McCarrel - $221,800
6th: Mike Sexton - $148,000
PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Shooting Star
Bay 101 Shooting Star
March 14-18, 2011
Bay 101 Casino
San Jose, California, USA
Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $3,697,500
Entries: 415
Defending Champion: McLean Karr
POINTS AT STAKE
ALAN STERNBERG 129
STEVEN KELLY 79
MIKE MATUSOW 49
VIVEK RAJKUMAR 39
CASEY MCCARREL 34
MIKE SEXTON 29
TY REIMAN 29
DANNY NGUYEN 14
ANDREW WEISNER 14
JORIS SPRINGAEL 14
BEN HAMNETT 14
CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI 12
KEVIN MACPHEE 12
BRIAN SCHMIDT 12
KATHY LIEBERT 12
NOAH LATHROP 9
MARK DICKSTEIN 9
GALEN HALL 9
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