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Today is the start of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament that will last until the 20th of March. This tournament is held in San Jose and has a buy in of $10.000 with the number of entrants being capped at 400. In the starting field we will find players like Allen Cunningham, Freddy Deeb, Erick Lindgren and John Juanda.

Last time this tournament was held was a year ago and that time it was Brandon Cantu from the US who took down the first price of $1 Million. At the final table he had to beat players like Steve Sung, Jennifer Harman and John Phan.

It will be interesting to see who will walk away with the first price this year.

For the first time ever an event on the World Poker Tour circuit will be played in Italy. The tournament will be held at Casino di Venezia in Venice the 6th of May 2009.

The tournament is arranged by WPT together with online gaming giant Bwin.com. The final table will be played the 10th of May and you will be able to follow all the final table action via live stream at Bwin.com.

During this time there will also be a couple of side events played for those who bust out of the main event or just want to play in tournaments with a lower buy in. Obviously there will also be a lot of cash games running for the players who are busted out of the tournaments.

The buy in for the main event is €4000+€400. The winner of the tournament will be guaranteed to win some serious cash but also a WPT Bracelet and a place in the WPT Championship hich is worth $25.000.

Poker legend Chris Ferguson reached the final table in LA Poker Classic. Out of the 696 players that participated in this tournament there are now only 6 players remaining with a chance to take down the first prize of $1.7 Million.

The WPT event LA Poker Classic is currently being played in Los Angeles. After five days of play 690 player out of the original 696 that started the tournament has been knocked out.

One of these players is the Team FullTilt Poker member Chris “Jesus” Ferguson who currently has $1.56 Million in chips which makes him the short stack at the final table.

In the lead we find Chris Karagulleyan who has already won a WPT title back in 2002 when he won the Legends of Poker event on the World Poker Tour circuit. Karagulleyan has over $4 Million in chips and in second place we find Mike Sowers with $2.4 Million in chips.

It will be very interesting to see if Chris Ferguson will finally manage to win his first WPT title.