Break!
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Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
The players are now taking a 15-minute break as the tournament staff colors up and removes the 25 denomination chips.
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
Pittsburgh's Pileggi Picks Up Prodigious Pot
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Pittsburgh, PA resident Larry Pileggi has jumped into the lead here after a huge three-way all in pot.
Pileggi, Jason Zawacki and a third player got heaps in the middle on a 
flop with Pileggi on 
, Zawacki holding 
and the third player having the best of it with 
.
The turn came the 
giving Pileggi even more outs and the 
river was one of them, handing him the flush, the straight, the pot, the kitchen sink and the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
90,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
The Wu Is Coming Through
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Yi Wu took a whack of chips off [Removed:339], getting it in with a straight over two pair.
After [Removed:340] busted, Wu went on to become the fourth player in a four-way all in pot and miraculously held on to win it with just 
high.
He's now up close to 100,000 and among the bigger stacks in the room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
95,200 | |
|
|
Busted |
Zawacki Leads!
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Alden, NY's Jason Zawacki just became the first player past the 100,000-chip post and currently leads after a slew of good hands and even better play.
He coolered one player flopping Broadway with big slick against the bottom end of a straight, then picked up kings to drag another heap of chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Break!
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
The players are off on the second 10-minute break of the day with six 40-minute levels now behind them.
The tournament clock currently claims 245 entries with 183 players remaining.
The T-meister Fires Again!
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Top local rounder Travell Thomas bagged up a short stack somewhere near 30,000 chips after 15 levels of play Friday.
Feeling like he can and will do better, he just fired another bullet, jumping in the second starting flight here in Level 6.
"It's not enough," he said of his Day 2 stack.
Thomas will be here Sunday for Day 2 no matter what happens, but he's taking advantage of the best-stack-forward structure here in the Summer Slam Main Event allowing players to fire on both starting days regardless of what they bag on the first in an attempt to turn up stacked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Parlatore Out Front
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Maria Parlatore has jumped into the lead here through Level 6 and is pushing 100,000.
She made a pair of full houses to drag sizable pots, then got paid off with a turned straight when one opponent rivered a pair of aces.
A little run good and several no-show wins have also added to her ever increasing stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
90,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
Rivera on a Run
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
With $164,398 in career tournament earnings, Alex Rivera is one of Western New York's top tourney grinders.
Locally, his resume boasts tons of big cashes, including a 2012 Summer Slam title that marked the second biggest score of his career, just under the $22,538 he collected for his 2011 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza win in Las Vegas.
Rivera actually led Day 1a of the 2014 edition of the Summer Slam Main Event before booking a 20th-place finish.
Here in 2015 he's off to the kind of start that might get him there again, having got it in with kings versus jacks to drag a massive pot and jump up among the early leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
87,500
87,500
|
87,500 |