$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Started
$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Started
A champion will be crowned in the $200 No-Limit Hold'em $50,000 Guaranteed Event #1 at the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic today.
A total of 90 players will enter the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino, just a stone's throw from the famous falls, and by the time things are said and done, just one will walk away $22,447 richer and a 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic title holder.
But first, there's a little bit of business, as players will have to carefully navigate their way past the 54-player money bubble and several pay jumps before reaching the final table, where the lion's share of the $96,738 prize pool awaits.
After four starting flights over the past two days, Day 1a chip leader Michael Davis and his 342,000-chip stack sit well above the rest of the field. In fact, no other player is even over the 300,000 mark, but names like Luis Ortis, David Wiles, Peter Alba, Kevin Reyes, and Brian Bowen should have a say in things moving forward as the only ones over 200,000.
Plus, there's a group of talented locals including [Removed:339], Alex Visbisky, Nicholas Goetz, Mark Roberts, Yong Wolfer, John Abraham, Todd Saffron, Rick Block and Nick Walker, all above the six-figure mark and champing at the bit to get going in the concourse outside the poker room right now.
Play will kick off at 11 a.m. local time with blinds at 1,500/3,000, a 400-chip ante. The length of today's levels increase to 40 minutes, leaving the tournament with enough play that it's really anybody's ball game right now.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be inside the ropes from start to finish today, capturing all the action and feeding it to you in palatable live update form for your reading pleasure. Just sit back and enjoy as the first event on the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic schedule plays down to a winner, right here, right now.
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
A hot start for Luis Ortiz came at the expense of Randy Lingenfelter, who just open shoved his under-50,000-chip stack from under the gun plus one.
Ortiz woke up with the on the button and came over the top all in isolating Lingenfelter and his . The board ran out to felt Lingenfelter and send the man who started the day second in chips to within a few big blinds of chip leader Michael Davis.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Luis Ortiz |
320,000
48,400
|
48,400 |
Randy Lingenfelter | Busted |
John Tyler just swapped spots with Nick Walker on the leader board, winning a flip for his tournament life and half of Walker's six-figure stack.
It was Tyler's versus Walker's in classic race that played out with Tyler flopping a set when the came down. The turn was just salt in Walker's wound and the river a formality as Tyler pushed above 100,000 and Walker well below.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
John Tyler
|
115,000 | |
Nick Walker |
49,000
-51,500
|
-51,500 |
It was unclear what the action was, but the outcome is crystal.
Jitendra Surwade just moved up into the top five on the leader board making quad tens to take most of Paul McLean's chips and all of Tom Lewardowski's.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jitendra Surwade |
260,000
165,600
|
165,600 |
Paul McLean |
25,000
-111,400
|
-111,400 |
Tom Lewardowski
|
Busted |
Silvio DeRubeis flatted a Kristan Mackiewicz raise, but when Leon Martin made it 17,000 and Mackiewicz flatted that, he shipped it in.
Martin called off with the and after Mackiewicz folded, DeRubeis turned over .
DeRubeis faded all danger to move up the chip counts quick and send Martin home early.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Silvio DeRubeis |
190,000
48,700
|
48,700 |
Leon Martin
|
Busted |
Time for a break and a quick color up. Play resumes in 15 minutes.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Kevin Reyes is on the climb again, getting one short stack all in with versus .
Reyes hit a jack on the turn and the board ran out clean leaving him with another soul collected and closing in on 300,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kevin Reyes |
287,000
63,500
|
63,500 |