Even if Mike Matusow wasn't seated at the feature table today, it wouldn't be difficult to find him. Matusow and three others saw a flop of and two players checked to the player in the cutoff, who bet 700. Matusow called on the button, the small blind came along and the big blind folded. On the turn, action was checked over to Matusow, who fired 2,500. Only the small blind called, and the landed on the river. Both players checked, and "The Mouth" tabled for the winner.
"Some people wait for the aces, I look for the queen-seven," Matusow said as he raked in the pot.
Moments later, a familiar face took a seat at the feature table. Last year, Randy Pfeifer outlasted a field of 202 players to win the $1,500 Deepstacks Poker Tour Seneca Niagara Poker Open for $62,265. He's now seated directly to Matusow's left.
Friend of DeepStacks Rich Belsky is already up to 38,500 here in Level 1. Belsky, seated at the same table as Robert Croak, told us he made a straight and flopped within minutes of each other to give his stack a nice boost. Belsky is the business manager for Mike Matusow and also helped bring Croak to the DeepStacks team.
Team DeepStacks is represented well here in the first event of the season. Lon McEachern, who is here to provide commentary for the final table broadcast, introduced the following DeepStacks pros just before play began:
The cards are in the air here the the Western New York Poker Championship. The plan on Day 1 is to play 14 50-minutes levels. We have around 200 players seated right now, but registration is open for the first four levels.
The chips are stacked, the cards are spread, and players are filing into the tournament area here at Seneca Niagara Casino. We'll be getting under way in just a few minutes, so stay tuned!
Welcome to the first-ever DeepStacks Poker Tour event held in Seneca Niagara, otherwise know as the Western New York Poker Championship. This event marks the first of the DeepStacks Poker Tour and is set to be a great one with a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool and plenty of action. It is also the first-ever televised poker event in Western New York, boasting a buy-in of $1,500, 50-minute blind levels and 25,000 in starting chips.
The event kicks off at noon local time and is a three-day event with the final table scheduled for February 19. Some of the expected names on hand are Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Karina Jett, Justin Smith, Mike Matusow and Adam Levy.
The beautiful Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel will play host to the event and as the official media partner of the tour, PokerNews will be on hand for all of the live coverage. You won't want to miss anything, so be sure to stay tuned for the updates coming fast and furious shortly.
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and two players checked to the player in the cutoff, who bet 700. Matusow called on the button, the small blind came along and the big blind folded. On the 
turn, action was checked over to Matusow, who fired 2,500. Only the small blind called, and the 
landed on the river. Both players checked, and "The Mouth" tabled 
for the winner.
board, making it 3,050.
