Moon Kim outlasted five other players - four of which were pegged as favourites to win Friday's final table at WPT Shooting Star at Bay 101 in San Jose.
Kim (2012 PTPR Rank: 9th) wasn't the one that most had pegged as the one to win it earlier on Friday but, Kim grabbed the lead early during final table play and he didn't look back from then on.
This is not Kim's first brush with success at Bay 101, he had won the Spread Limit Championship at the Bay 101 Open back in 2007.
Leading the four favourites at the start was French Canadian player Erik Cajelais. Cajelais has years of experience on the circuit and his previous 2nd place finish at a WPT event was believed to all be reasons to select him as the favourite.
Cajelais (2012 PTPR Rank: 56th) was never able to grab control of the final table and ended his day fourth. This is Cajelais' second PTPR Score of 2012.
2011 bracelet winner and Boragata Fall Open winner Andrew Badecker simply didn't have a chip stack that allowed him to make a serious move on Friday. Badecker (2012 PTPR Rank: 170th) bowed out fifth in San Jose.
FT PAYOUTS (USD) Moon Kim $960,900 * Ubaid Habib $570,200 Joe Serock $320,400 Erik Cajelais $256,300 Andrew Badecker $192,300 Joseph Elpayaa $128,200 inlcudes 25K WPT Championship seat RELATED POSTS >> CAJELAIS LEADS BAY 101 >> DOWN TO 20 IN SJ >> 2K SIDE EVENT >> STERNBERG WINS WPT SHOOTING STAR >> DUHAMEL POM FOR JAN >> DUHAMEL WINS WSOP >> BADECKER WINS BORGATA DEFENDING CHAMPION Alan Sternberg PTPR Rank: NR NEXT LIVE EVENT WPT Vienna April 10-15, 2012 2011: Dmitry Gromov | PTPR PREMIER EVENT World Poker Tour Shooting Star WPT Shooting Star NLH Main Event March 5-9, 2012 Bay 101 | San Jose, CA Buy-in: $10,000 | Prizepool: $3,458,000 Entries: 364 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION MOON KIM 128 UBAID HABIB 78 JOE SEROCK 48 ERIK CAJELAIS 38 ANDREW BADECKER 33 JOSEPH ELPAYAA 28 AMIR KHAZIRI 28 SCOTT BAUMSTEIN 13 MIKE MCCLAIN 13 MARKO TRAPANI JR. 13 BRANDON WONG 13 TU DINH 11 JONATHAN DUHAMEL 11 MICHAEL WYWROT 11 DANNY LE 11 JC TRAN 8 AMIR LEHAVOT 8 ADAM GEYER 8 |
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