Rick Block is no stranger to success here at Seneca.
Last weekend, the professional poker player from Alden, New York, took down the first event on the Summer Slam schedule for $15,000. Late last year he also won the 2014 Seneca Falls Poker Classic $1,000 Main Event for $40,050.
In fact, Block is no stranger to success outside of Niagara Falls either, having booked a World Series of Poker Circuit ring win in December 2013 at Atlantic City and boasting a resume with career live tournament earnings of $141,465.
The story checks out here in the Main Event as well, after Block picked up pocket aces out the break and fired three streets to bust one player and collect heaps from another.
Rochester, NY's Adam Foster got it up to 100,000 in chips getting lucky with a double-gutter in a massive pot early.
A few minutes ago he moved into the chip lead using that big stack to push an opponent off a hand.
Facing a 5,000-chip bet on a flop, Foster check-raised to 12,000. His opponent called, then led the river for 15,000. Foster wasted little time pushing a stack of yellow 5,000-denomination chips out front and announcing all in. His not-so-big stacked opponent folded.