Alan Sternberg vs Vivek Rajkumar
On the 3rd day of the $10,000 buy-in WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Event, 24 players fought their battle for the final table. The Belgian Joris Springael was the chip leader with 1,477,000 chips, but there were also world-famous players in the best 24: Vivek Rajkumar, Kevin MacPhee, PCA winner Galen Hall, Mike Sexton, Mike Matusow, Kathy Liebert and Zachary Clark.
The Brunson10 member Zachary Clark finished 19th in the end when he went pre-flop all-in, which was called by Alan Sternberg with
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J and Sternberg managed to pair his king on the board. Galen Hall followed him soon; he lost his entire stack on a flip against MacPhee, finishing 18th.On the 20th blind level (2000/6000/12000) Kathy Liebert also had to leave: she went all-in on the
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5 5 
2 Q board, and mucked as soon as his opponent, Hamnett showed his four of a kind, fives.
Kathy Liebert signs, Hamnett happy
On the 21th level (2000/6000/12000), the SB MacPhee raised to 36,000, the 2010 WSOP $1,500 NLHE Shootout champion, Steven Kelly 3bet, MacPhee called. The flop came
6 6 5. MacPhee checked, Kelly bet to 58,000, MacPhee called. The turn came Q. MacPhee checked again, so Kelly pushed 170,000 more in. MacPhee pushed all-in with 500,000:MacPhee:
A T Kelly:
K K River:
J MacPhee was eliminated on 13rd place.
Mike Matusow
The final table formed with the elimination of Ty Reiman, when his pocket tens proved weak against Matusow's queens that improved to the nut full house by the turn. Matusow yelled: "It's my time boys and girls".
The final table starts tomorrow at 4 P.M, if a live feed will be available, we'll let you know right here, on Rakerace.com.
Final table chip count:
Seat 1: Mike Matusow – 2,173,000 (109 BBs)
Seat 2: Mike Sexton – 363,000 (18 BBs)
Seat 3: Alan Sternberg – 3,701,000 (185 BBs)
Seat 4: Vivek Rajkumar – 1,616,000 (81 BBs)
Seat 5: Steven Kelly – 4,169,000 (209 BBs)
Seat 6: Casey McCarrel – 430,000 (22 BBs)
Final table prizes:
1.: $1.039.000
2.: $595.300
3.: $369.800
4.: $295.800
5.: $221.800
6.: $148.000
