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The 2011 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star poker tournament is down to just 24 players, and sitting amongst those final 24 is WPT Commentator Mike Sexton, who should he make the final table would for the first time not be in the broadcast booth for a WPT tournament.

In addition to Sexton poker fans will likely recognize quite a few names in the final 24, including former WPT champion Vivek Rajkumar and Kevin MacPhee both of whom are in the Top 10 heading into Day 3 of the WPT Bay 101 Main Event, while spots 11-15 are all occupied by poker pros: Ty Reiman, PCA champion Galen Hall, Sexton, Mike Matusow, and Kathy Liebert respectively. Also still in the hunt, in 19th place, is Brunson 10 member Zachary “CrazyZachery” Clark. Here is a look at the Top 10 chip counts heading into Day 3 of the tournament according to PokerNewsDaily.com:

1.    Joris Springael – 1,477,000
2.    Alan Sternberg – 1,106,000
3.    Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar – 1,076,000
4.    Casey McCarrel – 874,000
5.    Brian Schmidt – 842,000
6.    Andrew Weisner – 755,000
7.    Dan Smith – 703,000
8.    Steven Kelly – 653,000
9.    Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee – 542,000
10.    Mark Dickstein – 477,000

A total of 415 players registered for the $10,000 buy-in tournament, a huge increase over last year’s Bay 101 event that attracted just 333 players. With nearly $3.7 million in the prize-pool the winner of the Bay 101 tournament is in line to receive over $1 million, while each of the remaining 24 players are guaranteed at least $25,000; here is a look at the payouts for the entire field:

·    1: $1,039,000
·    2: $595,300
·    3: $369,800
·    4: $295,800
·    5: $221,800
·    6: $148,000
·    7-8: $73,900
·    9-10: $48,100
·    11-12: $37,000
·    13-18: $29,500
·    19-24: $25,800
·    25-30: $22,100
·    31-36: $18,400
·    37-45: $15,000