2015 Western New York Poker Challenge

Prizepool information has been released. With 93 entries a $7,347 prizepool was created paying 12 spots.

It's $2,204 for first with 12th paying $154.

Back from the first break the board reads 92 entries with 70 players remaining.

Into the second level now the tournament clock claims 78 entrants for this event.

Foxwoods Resort Casino, the largest resort casino in North America, is hosting the annual Foxwoods Poker Classic from March 14-30. The two-week tournament will attract top fields of both professional and amateur poker players, so you don't want to miss out!

Held in the largest poker room on the East Coast and spanning 17 days, this 21-event series will be highlighted by a $600 No-Limit Hold’em event, which will feature a $500,000 guarantee; and a $2,700 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event, which will also feature a $500,000 guarantee.

Last year’s Foxwoods Poker Classic had a total of 4,458 entries and paid out over $2.1 million in prize money, with the Main Event drawing 226 entries and a prize pool of over $548,000. This year, Foxwoods added several increased guarantees to their events, totaling $1,600,000.

Foxwoods Poker Room boasts close to 100 tables in the sprawling main room featuring a variety of live-action games that are spread around the clock. An additional 60 tournament tables are located in a separate tournament room offering weekly no-limit hold’em events with total payouts over $200,000 and guarantees totaling over $70,000. Foxwoods is also associated with the World Series of Poker and will host a WSOP Circuit event beginning May 13-24, so mark your calendar. In addition, Foxwoods will also offer satellites for the WSOP Main Event from June 1-14.

For more information and results from the Foxwoods Poker Classic, as well as other poker events happening at Foxwoods Resort Casino, visit www.foxwoods.com, like Foxwoods on Facebook, and follow Foxwoods on Twitter.

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The 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge continues this evening with Event 4: $100 No-Limit Hold'em.

The annual series runs through March 15th with eight major events culminating in the $200,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Main Event and the fourth event on the schedule begins at 6 p.m. tonight.

This event will feature 20-minute levels and 10,000-chip starting stacks. Registration is open until the start of Level 2 and there is unlimited re-entries for the first four levels.

The tournament is scheduled for one day and will play down to a winner tonight.

With Event #3 still ongoing The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be providing secondary coverage of the action here, regularly updating the basic condition of the tournament.