Paul McLean has moved back on top of the chip counts by grinding small pots and chipping up steadily.
He recently fired out a raise from under the gun to 3,600 and only the big blind called. The big blind led the flop for 5,000, but folded when McLean fired back, raising it to 12,000 total.
Cheektowaga, NY's Billy Vogel has rocketed up to a spot at the top of the chip counts here in Niagara Falls.
All this due to one massive hand where he flopped Broadway holding and managed to get his heads-up opponent to call it off on the river with for two pair.
With 10 levels now behind them, the players have headed off on a 45-minute dinner break.
The board currently reads 192 entries with 81 players remaining. When they return for the start of Level 11 at approximately 7:05 p.m. local time the registration and re-entry period will officially close.
Travell Thomas has spent the better part of the last decade collecting $477,559 in career tournament earnings and developing a reputation as one of the top tournament players in the Western New York area.
He even added to both the career earnings and his own legend yesterday with a deep run in the 2015 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Event #3 $50 re-entry that ended when he bubbled the final table in 11th place.
Today, he got short out of the gate, but just found a way to double up, jamming it in over a Pat Moeller raise with . Moeller called with but his two overs never connected on a board that filled up Thomas.
"Now the T-meister's got enough chips do some damage to somebody," he said, laughing as he stacked the double.
Tonowanda, NY's Tim Glab turned a straight flush against a flopped straight in the early going to double up.
Since then he's ridden a wave of good cards to build a monster stack. Recently, he called a 4,000-chip bet on a flop, then another 6,000 on the river before joining his heads-up opponent in checking the river.
Glab showed to drag yet another pot and join the glut of players collecting at the top of the chip counts.
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flop for 5,000, but folded when McLean fired back, raising it to 12,000 total.
flopped top two.
for two pair.
. Moeller called with 
but his two overs never connected on a 
board that filled up Thomas.
flop, then another 6,000 on the 
river before joining his heads-up opponent in checking the 
river.
to drag yet another pot and join the glut of players collecting at the top of the chip counts.
