Sonny Rattan Doubles on Last Hand to Lead Flight F

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.