With registration and re-entry for this flight closing at the start of Level 9, the official numbers are in.
There were a total of 181 entries and re-entries today and when added to the 249 two-flight total from Friday, that brings the grand total up to 430 entries and re-entries with one flight still to come.
The event's $50,000 Guarantee is now a distant memory with the prize pool already up to an estimated $69,445 and counting.
2014 Western New York Poker Challenge Main Event champ Nick Walker is making a run at it here today.
Facing a 2,200-chip bet from the player on his right, Walker three-bet to 6,000. After a call, they went heads-up to a flop. Walker's opponent checked and he bet 7,600. The call came again, bet when the turn came down, Walker's opponent jammed it in for 8,900.
Walker made the relatively quick call with the and needed only fade a fourth club versus his opponent's . He got it done on the river to climb the leader board into contention.
Word around the room is Leon Martin is hitting everything he plays.
All the evidence one needs to see is in his chip leading 160,000-chip stack, but we also caught him betting 10,000 into a pot about twice that size heads-up on a board.
His opponent called with the but was obviously no good versus the hot running Martin's full house.
Pat Tighe had built it back up before finding himself on the wrong end of a 100,000-chip pot thanks to a nasty river card.
Soon after, facing a 2,800-chip open and two calls, he ripped it in for 12,500 more. Only Mike Rellinger called, saying something about Michael Jackson and turning over the .
Tighe had him dominated with the , but Rellinger poured salt in Tighe's wound, finding a pair on the run out to bust him.
Coming off a 2015 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam where he earned one title and made two other final tables, Blake Napierala has had a slow start to the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic.
He's fired a few bullets into Event #1 to no avail, but may have found a sweet spot with this latest one.
He's up to 60,000 now after taking a a pot off Joseph Elia. It started with an Elia raise to 2,800 under the gun that Napierala called right behind him. The flop fell and after an Elia check, Napierala took it down with a 2,000-chip bet, showing .