by Erik Fast | Published: Dec 20, '25

Florida poker player bests 672 entries in 2025 WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship, earning $480,700 for the win.

by Erik Fast | Published: Oct 29, '25

The 672-entry field for the first WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star since 2017 has been narrowed to just six contenders.

by Erik Fast | Published: Mar 16, '20

The 2020 running of the Bay 101 Shooting Star $5,200 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event drew 290 entries, building a $1,331,000 prize pool despite the growing concerns around the country regarding the spread of COVID-19. The field was narrowed down to stacked final ten that were set to return on Friday, March 13 to play […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Mar 23, '19

The 2019 Bay 101 Shooting Star $5,200 no-limit hold’em main event attracted a total of 440 entries, creating a prize pool of $2,156,000. After four days of action, Sandeep Pulusani emerged victorious with the title and the top payout of $354,400. This was the second largest score of Pulusani’s poker career, behind his win in […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Mar 11, '17

A total of 806 entries were made in the 2017 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star $7,500 no-limit hold’em main event, a record field for the unique event that dates back to the second season of the WPT. This year’s six-handed final table played the host to a number of exciting storylines, including Chino […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Mar 18, '26

Just three days before winning the Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games title, Yuri Dzivielevski went on a late-series heater at the 2026 PokerGO Tour Mixed Games festival. The 34-year-old strung together back-to-back-to-back top-two finishes in the final three events, including one outright win, to be steal the series championship. Dzivielevski had not recorded a […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Feb 04, '26

New year, new race. The points have officially been tallied for the final 2025 Card Player Player of the Year standings presented by CoinPoker, and it was another massive year on the live circuit. The top 10 finishers alone collectively accumulated more than $84 million in POY earnings. As the 2026 campaign gets underway, we […]

by Art Parmann and Justin Young | Published: Jan 21, '26

Many poker players have made the transition from dealing to playing full time. Tyler Patterson navigated that transition and the move paid off with a long, successful career in the game. The native of Seattle, Washington, left college after a year to pitch cards, but he was soon making more cash on the other side […]

by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Jan 21, '26

Isabelle Mercier enjoyed a considerable amount of time in the poker spotlight in the earliest days of the poker boom. After earning her law degree in Montreal, she moved to Paris and managed one of the most famous poker rooms in the world, the Aviation Club. Her experience at the Aviation Club made Mercier a […]

by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Jan 21, '26

The World Poker Tour’s season is officially in the books with the conclusion of the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. All told, there were nearly 35,000 entries made across the 53-event schedule that ran from Dec. 2-22 in Sin City. That made for more than $59 million in total prize money, with nearly […]