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The end of the final day of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star poker championship could be described as nothing short of absurd, as back-to-back double eliminations wrapped up play until December 15th.
The final six players will get six weeks to prepare before they play the televised final table in Las Vegas on December 15th at the WPT World Championship series. 584 entries over three starting flights created a massive $2,613,200 prize pool, with a whopping $470,500 awaiting the winner in Las Vegas.
Final Table Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
| 1st | Quoc Mai | 10,165,000 | 254 |
| 2nd | Chahn Jung | 9,075,000 | 227 |
| 3rd | Ziao Guo | 4,095,000 | 102 |
| 4th | Shawn Daniels | 3,000,000 | 75 |
| 5th | Eric Zheng | 2,065,000 | 52 |
| 6th | William Davis | 700,000 | 18 |
Leading the final table is Quoc Mai, who won the final three-way all-in of the night. Mai, who bagged an incredible 254 big blinds, has already won more than 20 times his previous high score of $4,660. Mai eliminated Jeremy Menard (7th, $72,000) and Joe Nguyen (8th, $56,500) when he picked up pocket kings against Menard’s ace-queen offsuit and Nguyen’s pocket threes.
That came directly after Chahn Jung picked up pocket kings to eliminate Adam Hendrix (9th, $48,500) and Aaron Massey (10th, $41,500). Jung’s kings beat Hendrix’s ace-jack and Massey’s pocket threes in an eerily similar hand to Mai’s. Jung goes into the final table with a massive 227 big blind stack of his own.
It’s quite unusual for players to start a six-handed table so deep. Ziao Guo, who has already clinched a career-high score, also starts the final table with over 100 big blinds. Shawn Daniels, a WSOP bracelet winner who won the WPT Rolling Thunder Main Event in 2025, will start with 75 big blinds.
Eric Zheng (52 big blinds) and William Davis (18 big blinds) round out the chip counts.
There were plenty of other big names to make deep runs, including Mitchell Halverson (13th, $35,000), 2015 WSOP Main Event champion Joe McKeehen (15th, $30,500), Matthew Salsberg (19th, $23,900), Michael Wang (28th, $18,200), Brian Yoon (37th, $15,500), and Faraz Jaka (39th, $15,500). Both Phil Hellmuth and his son, Nick, took their shot at the title but finished 48th and 51st, respectively, for $11,400 each.
