The remaining desk is about within the 2026 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star principal occasion, with simply six gamers remaining from a area of 584 entries within the $5,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em affair.
The event started on Oct. 23 with the primary of three beginning flights at Bay 101 in San Jose, California. Play was halted when the WPT televised remaining desk of six was set on the night time of Oct. 26, with a dramatic end forward of a six-week break in play. The session concluded with back-to-back double eliminations that rapidly thinned the sphere from ten to 6. Now, the remaining half dozen contenders must wait till Dec. 15 for his or her shot on the title and the highest prize of $470,500, because the delayed remaining desk will decide again up then in Las Vegas.
In addition to the cash and the {hardware}, the eventual champion will even add their title to the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup and lock up a $10,400 seat within the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.
Final Table Chip Counts
| Seat | Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Eric Zheng | 2,065,000 | 52 |
| 2 | Ziao Guo | 4,095,000 | 102 |
| 3 | Chahn Jung | 9,075,000 | 227 |
| 4 | Shawn Daniels | 3,000,000 | 75 |
| 5 | William Davis | 700,000 | 18 |
| 6 | Quoc Mai | 10,165,000 | 254 |
Quoc Mai
The chip lead belongs to Quoc Mai, who received the ultimate three-way all-in of the night time. He bagged up 10,165,000, which will probably be good for 254 large blinds when play resumes in Sin City. The San Francisco resident has already assured himself a career-best rating by making it this far, together with his earlier high payday being $4,660. That got here with a 51st-place displaying in a RunGood Poker Series occasion at close by Thunder Valley Casino Resort this summer time.
Mai’s large closing win pitted his Ok♠Ok♦ towards the A♥Q♠ of Jeremy Menard (seventh – $72,000) and the 3♥3♣ of Joe Nguyen (eighth – $56,500). The board ran out 9♥2♥2♦4♥9♠ and Mai’s pocket kings held to ship each of his opponents packing on the bubble of the televised remaining desk.
That conflict got here straight after Chahn Jung’s Ok♠Ok♣ held off a particularly comparable pair of opposing palms: A♠J♥ for 2025 WSOP principal occasion sixth-place finisher Adam Hendrix and 3♥3♣ for Aaron Massey. Jung remained finest by a 10♥7♣5♣2♠5♠ runout to ship Massey (tenth – $41,500) and Hendrix ($48,500) to the rail.
Jung bagged 9,075,000 (227 large blinds) moments later. The 2026 WSOP $3,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion runner-up already has almost $2 million in recorded scores, and is now effectively positioned so as to add to that whole in a serious manner in December.
Shawn Daniels Headlines Rest Of The Pack
Ziao Guo is the one different participant to complete with over 100 large blinds. He will begin with 102, in actual fact, when playing cards are as soon as once more within the air. The California poker common, by locking up at the very least $94,000 on this event, has assured himself of a brand new private finest payday on the circuit.
Shawn Daniels is probably the most achieved participant remaining, with over $3.9 million in lifetime cashes. The bracelet winner and 2025 WPT Rolling Thunder principal occasion champion sits in fourth chip place with 3,000,000 (75 large blinds).
Shawn Daniels
The two brief stacks are Eric Zheng (2,065,000 – 52 large blinds) and William Davis (700,000 – 18 large blinds).
The sturdy turnout for this occasion created a prize pool of $2,613,200, with the highest 73 finishers making the cash. Plenty of notables ran deep, together with all-time WSOP bracelet chief Phil (*101*) (forty eighth), Tyler Patterson (forty fifth), Soheb Porbandarwala (forty first), Faraz Jaka (thirty eighth), Michael Wang (twenty eighth), Matthew Salsberg (nineteenth), and Joe McKeehen (fifteenth).
Now, with simply six remaining, there’s nonetheless almost $1.4 million in prize cash left to play for.
Remaining Payouts
1st: $470,500
2nd: $305,000
third: $226,000
4th: $168,000
fifth: $126,000
sixth: $94,000
Photo credit: World Poker Tour
