WPT Bay 101 Totals, Nolan Tells Stories

WPT Bay 101 Prize Pool Set

The numbers are in! The World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Stars Main Event is underway in San Jose, California with a $7,500 buy-in and two starting days. There were also $2,500 bounties on a slew of professional players, and the Day 1 chip leaders was awarded $10K. But it was the official numbers that everyone wanted to see, which were announced on Day 2.

Entries: 643

Prize pool: $4,597,450

Payouts: 63 players

First place: $1,138,350

Minimum payout: $15,110

Day 1A finished with 93 players and Andrew Lichtenberger as the chip leader with 341,100 chips, and Day 1B showed 156 players still in action and Rhea Motley ahead of them with 243,100 chips.

Nolan Dalla Tells of Borrowing $120K

Longtime fixture on the poker scene, author, and current World Series of Poker Media Director Nolan Dalla recently launched a blog. It contains posts about everything from sports betting to personal stories, from rants about seating on airplanes to worst restaurant experiences. It has quickly become one of the most read blogs by anyone familiar with poker and fans of solid writing.

The most recent post from Nolan explains how he was working a PokerStars satellite tournament in Atlantic City in 2005 and needed to come up with $120,000 because of an overseas wire transfer problem. He ultimately came up with the cash, with the help of friends in poker like Surinder Sunar.