Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
2012 DeepStacks Poker Tour Seneca Niagara
Western New York Poker Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 DeepStacks Poker Tour Seneca Niagara
Buy-in
$1,350
Prize Pool
$281,234
Entries
217
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Turning The Page
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Friend of DeepStacks Annie LePage got off to a bit of a slow start, but appears to be in the process of turning things around.
After she led out on a 
board, her opponent made it 3,500 more.
Annie wasted little time pushing all in for 12,400 total, and after her opponent folded, she found herself back up around the 25k starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
24,000 |
Take Us To Your Leader
Niagara Area native Dietrich Kuhlmann now finds himself on the top of the chip counts as the day's third level winds down.
He called down a three-barrel bluff with just a pair of sixes to rake one rather large pot, then ended up on the right end of a flush-over-flush debacle to get it up and over the 50k mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
55,000 |
Local Big Stacks Emerge
A couple of local players have begun building big stacks here at DeepStacks Niagara in the early going.
Rochester's Russ Campanella made quad sevens to take all of one opponent's chips and is now sitting on 42k.
But the biggest stack in the room so far appears to belong to Lewiston's Anthony Mazzarella, who made a huge call with top-top against a weaker ace and has been steadily building ever since.
He's now on 50k and seperating quickly from the pack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
50,000 | |
|
|
42,000 |
Musical Chairs
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
The featured table was the first to break today, sending Mike Matusow to one of the outer tables with two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Mihn Nguyen. Micheal Mizrachi has now been moved over to the feature table. We'll see if his fortune changes with the tv cameras rolling.
Mizrachi, Matusow and Nguyen are the only dual bracelet winners we've spotted in the field so far. Team DeepStacks Pro Randal Flowers, meanwhile, is a two-time champion on the World Poker Tour.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Break!
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
The players have gone on their first 15-minute break of the day. Right now, the tournament board reads 206 players, with 200 still remaining, but registration is still open for another two levels.
Grinded
Michael Mizrachi continues to head in the wrong direction here at DeepStacks Niagara.
Right before the break, the Team DeepStacks Pro was just caught in a 5k river bluff on a 
board with almost 8k in the pot.
His opponent called with just 
, but it was good against his 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
10,350 |
Man Down
We just caught Robert Croak making his way out of the tournament area. According to Croak, he got his chips in with pocket kings on a 
board, but his opponent had a set of deuces and scooped Croak's stack when a blank hit the river.
The famed creater of Silly Bandz is one of the early casualties of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Not Broke Yet
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow continues to harass fellow DeepStacks Pro Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi from his seat at the feature table.
Every few minutes he turns around to his table and asks the 2010 November Niner if he's busted yet.
Matusow is being quite relentless and although Mizrachi isn't taking the bite, he did get a chunk taken out of his stack recently.
The Grinder defended his big blind against an early-position raise and led out for 300 chips on the 
flop. But when his opponent called, he checked the 
turn.
His opponent tapped the table as well and both also checked the 
river.
"I have an ace" Mizrachi's opponent claimed, forcing him to muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
21,500 | -3,500 |