Seneca standout Yong Wolfer is firing away right now and has moved into the top spot on the chip count list.
Things got rolling when he won a race with versus pocket fours to felt one player. Then he took down a number of pots without showdown.
One such hand started with a late position raise to 800 that the big blind defended. Both players checked the flop, but when the big blind led for 2,000 on the turn, Wolfer clicked it back to 4,000. The big blind called and the river came the .
The big blind led again, making it 5,000 and Wolfer raised it up 12,000. The big blind folded and Wolfer's domination continued.
Moved to a new table, Mark Vitrano opened up with a raise from early position with the .
A few seats over, one opponent raised it up with the before a third pushed in for 2,625 with the .
Vitrano called that, and did the same when the player with queens came back over the top all in for 5,500.
Despite drawing super thin, somehow, someway, Vitrano found a way out of this mess, making a flush on the run out and pushing up close to the top of the chip counts.
Erie, PA's Brandon Zygai has joined the early-double-up club.
He got his check-rasing all in on an flop with the . His heads-up opponent called off with the , and despite identifying that he could hit a queen to win, did not do so on either the turn or river.
It just kept getting better for Randy Lingenfelter and his .
He flopped a pair and a flush draw on the flop. Then he turned trips on the turn. It got even better when he bet 8,000 and his opponent shoved with .
Lingenfelter called it off and the cherry on the cake was a spade on the river, making him a flush and the outright chip leader here in the day's fourth level.