Quoc Mai will take the chip lead into the televised final table of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship after the field narrowed from 584 entries to six. The remaining players will reconvene in Las Vegas on 15 December during the WPT World Championship series.
The World Poker Tour's official updates show Mai with 10.165 million chips, equivalent to 254 big blinds when play paused. Chahn Jung is close behind on 9.075 million, while Ziao Guo, Shawn Daniels, Eric Zheng and William Davis complete the final table.
The winner is set to receive USD470,500, including a USD10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship. Second place is scheduled to pay USD305,000, and every finalist has secured at least USD94,000. The event generated a USD2.61 million prize pool from its USD5,300 buy-in.
PokerNews highlighted several decisive hands from the California stage, including the late double eliminations that set the final six. Phil Hellmuth finished 49th for USD11,400, while Jung collected two USD2,500 Shooting Star bounties in one hand before the tournament paused.
