The second event on the 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge schedule will kick off just minutes from now.
The annual series runs through March 15th with eight major events culminating in the $200,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Main Event and Event #2, a $500 No Limit Hold'em tournament, begins at 11 a.m. this morning.
This event will feature 30-minute levels and 30,000-chip starting stacks. Registration is open until the start of Level 5 and there is unlimited re-entries for the first 8 levels.
The tournament is scheduled for one day and will play down to a winner today.
In 2014, Joseph Elia won the second event on the Western New York Poker Challenge schedule besting a field of 112 entries to claim the $14,364 first-place prize.
A similar size field is expected today as the Western New York area's top rounders flock to the Seneca Niagara Casino in the shadow of Niagara Falls.
As always, the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on the floor providing coverage of all the action from start to finish.
Less than 12 hours after getting the best of a 139-player field to take down Event #1 of the 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge and collect $6,285 in first-place prize money, Jerry Calvaneso is back for more.
He joined the field here in Event #2 within the last few minutes and is already building a stack.
Calvaneso limped from late position and was joined by the player to his left before the button made it 450. Calvaneso called, as did his neighbor and they went three-handed to an flop.
Calvaneso and the third player in the hand checked before the button made it 900. Only Calvaneso called and was joined by his heads-up opponent in checking the turn. The river came the and both players checked again with Calvaneso showing a turned flush holding .
Buffalonian Sharman Olshan got off to a quick start in Event #1 but simply fizzled out as the day wore on.
Today, she's hoping for a deeper run and has found a way to more than double her starting stack giving her a place among the early leaders.
All she had to do was flop a set of threes, call when fellow Buffalonian Sathish Naior shoved with the nut flush draw and fade a diamond with two cards to come.
Buffalo's own Bruce Pace has jumped out to a massive chip lead here in Level 8.
Not only is he the first player past the 100,000-chip mark, but he's quickly closing in on 200,000.
Pace was a little sketchy about the details of his metoiric rise, but did admit to cracking one players pocket aces on the way to building the mountain of chips he now has.
A massive three-way all-in pot just did some major damage to the leaderboard here at Seneca Niagara.
Richard Arnone hit the second nut flush with on a flop. Chip leader Bruce Pace flopped a set of threes and John Joslyn held giving him the nut flush draw.
Everybody's money went in the middle and although the turn kept Arnone in the lead, the river ensured Joslyn would triple up and unseat Pace on the top of the leaderboard.
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turn. The river came the 
and both players checked again with Calvaneso showing a turned flush holding 
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and Calvaneso scooped the pot.
, Chen and his heads-up opponent got it all in after a series of raises on the river.
for the boat, but Chen held the yacht felting 
on a 
flop. Chip leader Bruce Pace flopped a set of threes and John Joslyn held 
giving him the nut flush draw.
turn kept Arnone in the lead, the 
river ensured Joslyn would triple up and unseat Pace on the top of the leaderboard.
all in pre-flop.
river came down.