Bay 101
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Bay 101 is a cardroom
in San Jose, California
. Like other California cardrooms, Bay 101 offers poker
cash games and tournaments
as well as special "California" style table games.
Bay 101 is perhaps best known for hosting the Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour
tournament created by Bay 101 owner Marko Trapani in 1997. The Bay 101 Shooting Star is one of the few major bounty
tournaments, and the only one of its type on the World Poker Tour.
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Cardroom
A cardroom or card room is a gaming establishment that exclusively offers card games for play by the public. The term poker room is generally synonymous, since the gambling games played in such establishments are typically, and sometimes exclusively, variations of poker such as Texas hold 'em.Such...
in San Jose, California
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
. Like other California cardrooms, Bay 101 offers poker
Poker
Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
cash games and tournaments
Poker tournament
A poker tournament is a tournament where players compete by playing poker. It can feature as few as two players playing on a single table , and as many as tens of thousands of players playing on thousands of tables...
as well as special "California" style table games.
Bay 101 is perhaps best known for hosting the Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting the final table of each tournament. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that...
tournament created by Bay 101 owner Marko Trapani in 1997. The Bay 101 Shooting Star is one of the few major bounty
Bounty (poker)
A bounty is a feature in some poker tournaments that rewards a player for eliminating another player. Depending on the tournament, a player might be rewarded for eliminating either a specific player, or any player. The reward is almost always a cash prize, and not tournament currency. Bounties...
tournaments, and the only one of its type on the World Poker Tour.
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