Today, the survivors from Day 1A and Day 1B of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament will assemble in the California casino for Day 2. In a “Survivor”-like twist, it’s now anyone’s event to win, as 126 players will battle to make the money and claim the $878,000 top prize. Taking sixth on the leaderboard is David Doc Sands Sands (pictured at right), who sits at #2 worldwide in the Online Poker Rankings. Sands will bring an arsenal of 106,900 chips to Day 2, with the entire field trailing Day 1A chip leader Vanna Tea’s 143,900.

Sands will captain Table 41 on Wednesday, where his opponents will include former WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals winner Nick Schulman, PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main Event champ Tom Marchese, Full Tilt Poker pro Mike Matusow, and PocketFives.com member Christina lindeyloo22 Lindley. Sands doubled up Shooting Star and WPT Host Mike Sexton after running pocket kings into Sexton’s pocket aces. The board came 9-4-2-3-4 and Sexton doubled through. Nevertheless, the young gun is in prime position to make a run at his first WPT final table.
Seventh place on the Day 1B leaderboard went to Mohsin chicagocards1 Charania (pictured at left), who amassed a stack of 94,600 chips. That total is good for 12th place entering Day 2 and he’ll take to Table 21, where his competition will include Sexton and former L.A. Poker Classic chip leader Masa Kagawa. Charania collected a $5,000 Shooting Star bounty after sending John “The Razor” Phan to the rails on Tuesday. Charania’s J-9 of clubs outdrew Phan’s A-7 of hearts after a jack hit on the river.

Taylor taypaur Paur (pictured at right) was ousted on Tuesday after pushing all-in from the cutoff with 10-9 of diamonds. McLean Karr, the chip leader at the time, made the call with pocket queens. The flop came A-K-J to make matters interesting, but a 10 on the turn filled Karr’s straight and no queen came on the river for a chop. Paur finished 37th in the L.A. Poker Classic Main Event and currently sits at #8 in the Rankings. Paur took down an event held during January’s Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC) for $125,000 and chopped a Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) tournament in November for $189,000.

Vivek Psyduck Rajkumar (pictured at left), one of the Shooting Stars in the tournament, was eliminated after a flush draw failed to materialize. James Calderaro, who finished 13th in the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, was his executioner. Also sunk on Day 1B was “Poker2Nite” host Joe JoeSebok Sebok, whose A-K could not withstand Bobby Suer’s A-J. Suer made a Broadway straight on the river to send Sebok home. If you miss his smiling face, you can tune into Versus every Wednesday night at 11:00pm ET for the latest episode of the UB.com sponsored poker news show “Poker2Nite.”

Here are the top 10 chip stacks entering Day 2 of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament:

1. Vanna Tea – 143,900
2. Greg “FBT” Mueller – 132,800
3. Eugene Katchalov – 131,500
4. Timothy McDermott – 118,100
5. Grantland Hillman – 115,100
6. David Doc Sands Sands – 106,900
7. Oddie Dardon – 105,500
8. Scotty Nguyen – 99,900
9. Sorel Imper1um Mizzi – 97,600
10. Yevgeniy Jovial Gent Timoshenko – 97,600

The top six players will pocket six-figure paydays and the money bubble will officially burst when 36 runners are left standing. Other members of the online poker community who remain in the hunt include:

12. Moshin chicagocards1 Charania – 94,600
17. Joseph pokerjoe9 Elpayaa – 87,300
18. Scott r_a_y Montgomery – 84,800
19. Chris Fox Wallace – 84,100
28. Tyson POTTER Marks – 74,000
41. Steve gboro780 Gross – 64,200
45. Matt All In At 420 Stout – 61,000
50. Brett threatnasty Switzer – 56,200
59. Faraz The-Toilet Jaka – 49,000
60. Zachary CrazyZachary Clark – 48,500
61. Jonathan driverseati Tamayo – 48,300
69. Brian tsarrast Rast – 44,900
71. Justin Boosted J Smith – 44,100
81. Jonathan FieryJustice Little – 38,700
82. Tyler brainwash Cornell – 38,600
87. Carter ckingusc King – 37,000
90. Jonathan therookieqq9 Plens – 33,700
91. Tyler dabears87 Reiman – 33,300
94. Dan Wretchy Martin – 33,100
98. Corwin mig.com Mackey – 29,900
103. Shane shaniac Schleger – 25,500
105. Adam Roothlus Levy – 24,800
107. Christina lindeyloo22 Lindley – 23,400
114. Jim jbk2 Anderson – 18,200
120. Barry barryg1 Greenstein – 12,900

The blinds will begin at 500-1,000 with a 100 ante today. Stay tuned to PocketFives.com for the latest WPT coverage of online poker players.