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With registration and re-entry now closed and Day 1b drawing 309, the 2015 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event drew 504 total entries absolutely crushing the $150,000 guarantee.
The $550+$50 buy-in created a big $267,498 prizepool that will pay 54 spots. A min-cash is worth $1,150 and first place will pay a healthy $61,535.
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
The players are off on a 45-minute dinner break and play will resume at approximately 7:05 p.m. local time.
When they do, the registration and re-entry period will officially close. The tournament clock currently reads 303 entries with 123 players remaining.
Warren, MI's Steve Clark has risen to a spot near the top of the leader board heading into the dinner break.
He got it all in with 
versus kings to double up, ran kings into eights to bust a player, flopped the nut straight on a 
board holding 
and won a couple more pots in a six-hand flurry to chip up big time.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
144,000 |
Niagara Falls Poker Room regular Sal Incartona has built some big stacks all week in the Summer Slam prelims. Unfortunately, he has found very little luck when it has really counted.
He's back at it in the Main Event today, already up over 100,000 and obviously hoping for a different outcome.
Incartona told PokerNews his path to tournament-chip riches on this day has come courtesy of one wild player who shoved into his pocket queens with little more than 
. Other than that, he's risen the ranks, "little, by little...very little."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
110,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Local rounder Corey Reid has just jumped into the top spot on the chip counts courtesy of a massive three-way pot.
Reid bet 18,100 into a pot of about the same size three-handed on an 
flop. Both his opponents pushed all in, one for a little more, one for a little less.
Reid made the call with 
for top set. His opponent's held 
and 
respectively. Both went broke when Reid filled up on the 
run out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
172,000
172,000
|
172,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Toronto, Canada's Barry Kruger plays every big tournament in this part of the world and has had a ton of success doing so.
In fact, he's got $340,213 in career live tournament earnings with his biggest lifetime score coming from a second-place finish in the 2013 World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship just outside of Montreal, Canada for $265,614.
Today he's vaulted into the chip lead here in Level 9 riding a huge rush of great cards and perfect set ups.
Kruger has rivered a flush, picked up pocket aces, won with big slick and even flopped a queen-high straight getting paid off when his heads-up opponent rivered a smaller one.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
151,000
151,000
|
151,000 |
Avoca, NY's Tyler Gardner is well above 100,000 in chips now after he hit a set and got called down by one non-believer with ace high.
Add that to a couple of big straights and he's among the leaders now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
