BIG GUNS OUT ON WPT

The names for the forthcoming WPT (World Poker Tour) Bay 101 Shooting Stars championship has been declared – and it looks like a stellar-packed list.

Already affirmed for this year’s $ 9500 + $ 500 buy-in championship are Alan Sternberg, the reigning champion, as well as players like Liv Boeree, Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, Jonathan Duhamel, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Barry Greenstein, David Williams and Jason Mercier.

If these 9 poker players are not enough to live up to your expectations that this will probably be the most telling line-up you will check all year long, then see some of the other huge poker pros called for.

What do you think about Phil Hellmuth? Or even Antonio Esfandiari? Well, there is Todd Brunson, Tony G, Fabrice Soulier,  Eugene Katchalov, , Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly JC Tran, , Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Ben Lamb,  Erick Lindgren, Sam Stein, Chris Moorman, Men Nguyen, Will ‘The Thrill’ Failla, Erik Seidel, Scott Seiver,  Michael Mizrachi and Mike Sexton and– to name some of them.

All those already listed will have a $ 5000 bounty on their heads when the play starts at the Bay 101 Casino. It will start on 5th March (Monday) and will finish on 9th March (Friday).

On the whole, forty-nine players in the field will be of $ 5000 to the poker player who kicks them out, and also includes pros like David ‘Chino’ Rheem Allen Bari, Freddy Deeb, Matt Giannetti, Andy Frankenberger,  Jennifer Harman, John Juanda, Maria Ho, Dwyte Pilgrim and Kathy Liebert.

There is a $ 10000 bonus up for catches for the chip leaders after Day 1A and Day 1B. Therefore, there much more on offer; even for those players who do not earn the money.

Sternberg grabbed $ 1039000 for pulling down the event in San Jose, last March, after beating another American poker player Steven Kelly in their heads-up combat.

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Focus on: David Williams

David Williams is a poker player that plays the game professionally, but at the same time he is also known as a good player of Magic: The Gathering.

His biggest moment in poker was at the World Series of Poker in 2004, when he managed to get to participate thanks to a win at a online poker website. He got to the main event finals and eventually won the second place, Raymer Greg being in 1^st. He won $3.5 million as a result. A few months later he also managed to take the 2^nd spot at WPT Borgata Open, with a prize of $573,800.

The total winnings he managed to get at live tournaments were $7.9 million in 2010, out of which over $4.3 million came from the World Series events where he cashed in. The majority of the remaining money came from events from the World Poker Tour.

He also has one bracelet at the World Series, which was won in 2006, in a Seven card stud table, with a $1500 buy-in.

As for his participations at the World Poker Tour, he reached the final table for the second time in 2006 and he took home $280k after he finished in 4^th place. After another few months he managed to reach the final table at the WPT again and once again he managed to take the 4^th place. He managed to win the WPT World Championship in 2010, taking home $1.5 million and defeating Eric Baldwin.

After the WSOP 2004, Williams was a member of the Team Bodog, which he left in 2010. Right now he is a member of Team PokerStars and he is sponsored by them.

At WCOOP 2009, Williams won the 42^nd Event, by defeating Alexander Kostritsyn.

He has a blog these days, where he write about his professional and personal life.

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