Alex Visbisky at the 2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event
The first of two starting flights for last year's Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event drew 121 entries.
Local star Alex Visbisky booked the overnight chip lead on over 400,000, as he has a habit of doing in big events here at Seneca.
Today he's off to a familiar start. Moments ago, Visbisky was seen going all in for 26,575 total, after Newton Graziano overbet 10,000 into a 7,000-chip pot on a board.
Graziano did it reluctantly, but he folded.
"I'd fold against that guy too," Dietrich Kuhlmann added. "He's good, but not because of that. He's lucky."
Buffalo, NY's own Colin Phoenix is running hotter than a Death Wing at Duff's to start the day.
First he cracked aces with the turning trip nines. Then, he won an even bigger pot, hanging around until the river to make a straight to beat another foe's two pair.
He's got the Level 2 chip lead and a bottle of run good sauce larger and more flavorful than anyone else's right now.
2017 Fall Classic Opening Event Ninth Place Finisher Kevin Wright
As expected, with registration open until after the dinner break, things got off to a slow start in this first of two starting flights today. In fact, the board reads just 18 entries so far.
Among those entries are the following list of players who made some noise in the prelims here at the 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic, or do so on a regular basis inside the Niagara Falls Poker room.
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It's Fall in Western New York and with the leaves changing colors and temperatures dropping outside, the action always heats up inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Resort.
Today marks the start of the $1,000 buy-in 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event and if it's action you're looking for, this is the place to be.
Play will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday with the first of two starting flights for the $200,000 guaranteed event. However, this one is played for more than just cash and a sweet trophy. For the second year in a row, CardPlayer magazine has come on as a title sponsor of the Seneca Fall Poker Classic, so the Main Event winner will grace the cover of CardPlayer, one of the most popular magazines in poker.
The event will kick off and play out entirely inside the poker room this year. Players will start with 30,000 in chips with plans to play through 15 40-minute levels on Day 1. The levels increase in length as the tournament moves forward.
Registration and unlimited reentry is available through the first ten levels and the 45-minute dinner break that will take place after ten levels are through. Plus, there's another starting flight Saturday.
This event always attracts some of the area's top poker players and several from beyond it. In fact, last year saw a whopping 300 entries create a guarantee-smashing $264,810 prize pool. West Seneca, New York's Dan Wagner went from perennial bridesmaid to bride, taking down the 2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event.
The top earning pro booked his first big win after final table appearances in the 2016 Western New York Poker Challenge and 2015 Summer Slam Main Events.
With multiple satellite winners already in, and more running up until the last minute, there should be a big field for this one as well.
Of course, PokerNews will be on hand from beginning to end, so sit back and enjoy our coverage of the 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event. It starts now.
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turning trip nines. Then, he won an even bigger pot, hanging around until the river to make a straight to beat another foe's two pair.
