Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$600 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
Buy-in
$550
Entries
504
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Break!
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Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
The players are off on 10-minute break and will return to play two more levels before bagging.
More of the Same Pace
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Bruce Pace is kicking ass and taking names.
He just busted a player who shoved nothing but a pair of sixes after he had turned 
into a pair of nines and a flush draw with one to come.
The river bricked and Pace is now within a few chips of 400,000 and an overall lead on the field heading into Day 2.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
395,000
190,000
|
190,000 |
The Smooth Grind
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Syracuse, NY's Jonathan Giordano has a smooth grind going.
He's pushing close to 200,000 now and hasn't had any big all-in confrontations or played any massive pots.
In fact, he told PokerNews he hasn't played a pot worth more than 40,000 chips all day, winning droves of small ones throughout and working with the structure like a seasoned vet that he is with $50,312 in tournament earnings up and down East Coast.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
175,000 |
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Slow and Low That Is The Tempo
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
The slow grind is paying dividends for Erie, PA's Nino Loverso here in Niagara Falls.
He's found a spot near the top of the chip counts picking up small to medium sized pots all day long and avoiding any big trouble.
"Slow and steady," is how he described his climb towards the top so far.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
160,000 |
Salty Jeff Wells
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Erie, PA's Jeff Wells has shot up near the top of the chip counts thanks to a classic cooler.
He got aces versus kings all in preflop for a 150,000-chip pot and even hit a set to pour a little salt in the wound.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Acevedo Grinding
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Veteran Television and and Film actor Kirk Acevedo is working on a TV project in nearby Toronto, Canada and on breaks in filming has come up to play a couple of events at Summer Slam this year.
Although he's been featured films like Boiler Room, Invincible and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and appeared in top TV shows including The Walking Dead, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Fringe, Acevedo is also an avid poker player.
He's got $99,570 in career tournament earnings and looking to add to it, sitting on a threatening 115,000-chip stack here in the Main Event.
A solid grinder, Acevedo appears to have steadily built it up all day and continues to climb the counts without a lot of big confrontations.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
115,000 |
Setting The Pace
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Chronic stack builder Bruce Pace is at it again. This time he jedi-mind tricked a player into shoving 
for 60,000 into his top pair on a jack-high flop.
Pace's 
held when the turn and river bricked and he accepted the gift graciously.
That 150,000-chip pot and a whole lot of over-betting has Pace setting the pace as the first player past 200,000 here.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
205,000
102,000
|
102,000 |