$125 No-Limit Hold'em $50,000 Guaranteed
Day 1f Completed
$125 No-Limit Hold'em $50,000 Guaranteed
Day 1f Completed
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.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sonny Rattan |
181,600
105,400
|
105,400 |
Mark Bowman
|
165,500
165,500
|
165,500 |
Rayshawn Smalls |
145,300
-24,700
|
-24,700 |
Stephen Rokitka | 124,300 | |
Rob Stinson
|
120,100
-19,900
|
-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
|
17,400 |
Derek Schlesinger | 74,800 | |
Peter Arena | 70,700 | |
Dalton Dawkins |
70,100
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
|
63,600 |
Chris Trybus | 62,700 | |
Paula Rasmussen |
60,600
-44,400
|
-44,400 |
Marc Bellis |
60,100
60,100
|
60,100 |
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.
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
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 |
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.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kyle Gauchat | Busted |
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Players are on their final break of Flight F. The plan is to play two more levels after they return.