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Prizepool and payout information has been released for the 2017 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event.
With 414 entries, a $220,869 prizepool was created that will pay the top 45 finishers.
A min-cash is worth almost double the buy-in at $1,193 and there is a $51,904 first-place prize awaiting the winner. Plus, the top eight will all earn at least $5,963.
Check the Payouts Tab above for full details.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Todd Saffron ran deep in both the $125 and $200 Summer Slam Reentry prelims this week. But despite contending throughout both, he missed out on the big money at the end of those rainbows.
Today, he's looking to grind his way up to a big bag of chips and contend on Day 2 of the Main Event. So far, that effort is going as planned and Saffron just broke the 200,000 chip barrier.
In the meantime, James DiPasquale just got 'em again. This time he three-bet the 
and flopped the straight against top-pair top-kicker. He even made a flush on the end to pull in another big pot.
As a result, DiPasquale back in front and closing in on 300,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
265,000 | |
|
203,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Perennial contender Jason Clark has just become the first player past the 200,000-chip post and has vaulted into the post-dinner chip lead.
Things picked up for Clark when he picked off a Scotty Gaddi bluff with a flopped pair of tens. Gaddi jammed the missed flush and straight draws on the ace river, but Clark sniffed it out.
He played aces a little on the slow side and got paid off. Plus, he's had kings over queens for heaps as well.
Earlier this week Clark appeared to be developing a habit of building stacks early and running bad late. That appears to be turning around now and Clark is returning to the form that has seen him run deep in a number of events here at Seneca of late.
Now, he'll take 200,000 and a somewhat hopeful attitude with him to the late levels in this Main Event flight.
"They haven't $#@%ed me yet," he said, smiling.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
211,000 |
With registration and reentry now closed the numbers are in.
Adding this flight's 269 entries to the 145 from Friday's first flight means the 2017 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event drew a grand total of 414 entries. It was slightly off last year's record-setting turnout, but still just as impressive.
In fact, this bumper field managed to create a massive $220,870 prizepool that absolutely crushed the $100,000 guarantee.
The cage is crunching the numbers and counting the cash now and will provide full payout information later this evening.
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
It appears James DiPasquale will take the chip lead into a 45-minute dinner break that is about to begin. He flopped quad eights in a four-way pot and got paid off on the river to get to just under 200,000.
Play will resume at 7 p.m. local time. The board currently reads 257 entries with 132 players remaining. Registration and reentry will remain open through the break.
In the meantime, here's a look at where the big stacks and early leaders stand:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
190,000
700
|
700 |
|
170,000 | |
|
|
165,000
-500
|
-500 |
|
|
151,000
43,700
|
43,700 |
|
150,000 | |
|
140,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
140,000 | |
|
|
130,000 | |
|
120,000 | |
|
|
120,000 | |
|
|
120,000 | |
|
115,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
110,000 | |
|
|
110,000 | |
|
|
105,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
95,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
82,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |
|
80,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
80,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
80,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
Multiple Seneca Niagara title holder Kurtis Boutelle has fired so many bullets into this event he figures he'll need to make third place to break even.
He took a step towards that busting Greg Ostrander moments ago. Ostrander was short after suffering some kind of slow play death with aces a few hands earlier.
In the end, he went with pocket fours after a raise and a reraise somehow saw him committed him to the pot. Turkey Thugs star Paul Butski had aces in the hand, but Boutelle made trip tens and was able to pluck him for value as well.
Boutelle now has at least part of the stack he bought and paid for and Ostrander is headed to the cage to ring the reentry bell.
In the meantime, Butski has a little turkey left, but the stuffing, cornbread and mash potatoes are gone.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
75,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
30,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
||
|
|
10,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
