$125 No-Limit Hold'em $50,000 Guaranteed Day 1f | 2014 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam

$125 No-Limit Hold'em $50,000 Guaranteed

Day 1f Completed

07-31-2014 01:34 UTC-4

Sonny Rattan Doubles on Last Hand to Lead Flight F

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The 2014 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam continued Wednesday night with the final flight of Event #5, a $125 buy-in no-limit hold’em event with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. The special event featured six separate starting flights across three days with the survivors advancing to Day 2 on Thursday to play down to a champion.

Flight F kicked off at 6 p.m. and when registration closed after eight levels a total of 191 entries were tallied, making it by far the largest of the six flights. Only 41 survived the day, with Sonny Rattan and his stack of 181,600 leading the way.

Rattan doubled on the very last hand of the night to snag the chip lead from Mark Bowman (165,500). According to Rattan, a player limped from under the gun and the player on the button min-raised to 4,000. The small blind called, as did Rattan (big blind) and the original limper.

The flop came and it checked over to the under-the-gun limper who made it 12,000 to go. The button folded and the small blind fired back by moving all in. Rattan then called all in and the other player got out of the way. Rattan had flopped with nuts with but still needed to dodge some outs against the small blind's . The rest of the board bricked, and Rattan celebrated his huge win to close out the evening.

Others who bagged big stacks in Flight E were Rayshawn Smalls (145,300), Stephen Rokitka (124,300) and Rob Stinson (121,000).

A total of 149 players from a field of 765 will return for Day 2 on Thursday to play down to a champion. We'll following the action from start to finish, so keep your browsers locked right here until the Event #5 champion collects the trophy and nearly $16,000 in prize money.

07-31-2014 01:02 UTC-4

Official Flight F Counts (full)

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sonny Rattan	181,600	105,400
Mark Bowman	165,500	165,500
Rayshawn Smalls	145,300	-24,700
Stephen Rokitka	124,300
Rob Stinson	120,100	-19,900
Chris Harker	95,600
Aaron Brown	89,100
Thomas Keeper	89,000
Keith Mueller	87,000
Jordan Lande	83,600
Kevin Long	82,000
Jordan Smith	81,500
Randy Hohensee	77,400	17,400
Derek Schlesinger	74,800
Peter Arena	70,700
Dalton Dawkins	70,100	70,100
Sil Derubies	69,300
Anthony Gliszczynski	66,600
Robert Forbes	66,300
Scott Stopa	65,200
Siavash Banai	64,600
Tim Baijanov	63,600	63,600
Chris Trybus	62,700
Paula Rasmussen	60,600	-44,400
Marc Bellis	60,100	60,100

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07-31-2014 00:35 UTC-4

Four More Hands

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The remaining five tables will each play for more hands before players bag and tag for the night. We'll have full chip counts available upon the completion of play.

07-31-2014 00:15 UTC-4

Ciffa's Run Ends

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Joe Ciffa won't be winning a third straight event here at the Summer Slam series. Ciffa, who won Event #2 and Event #3 on back-to-back days last week, shoved his last 16,000 in preflop with the and couldn't outflip an opponent's . Ciffa wished his tablemates good luck and exited the poker room.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Ciffa	Busted

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

07-31-2014 00:06 UTC-4

Smalls Takes Chip Lead

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Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Rayshawn Smalls raised preflop and two players called to see a flop. We didn't catch the action but Smalls got his 80,000 chips in on the right side of a cooler with against another player's . Small secured the huge double when the and completed the board and he began stacking a pile of chips worth around 170,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rayshawn Smalls	170,000

07-30-2014 23:48 UTC-4

Gauchat Gone

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Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Kyle Gauchat was all in for around 7,000 with the on a flop but was called by a player holding the . The board ran out , spelling the end of Gauchat's tournament.