Event 10: $300 No-Limit Hold'em
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2014 Western New York Poker Challenge
Event 10: $300 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 Western New York Poker Challenge
Buy-in
$265
Prize Pool
$29,958
Entries
119
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Welcome to Event #10 of the Western New York Poker Challenge!
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Welcome back to our coverage of the 2014 Western New York Poker Challenge at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York! Today the action is moving from the poker room up to the balcony of the casino, where players will compete in Event #10 of the 16-tournament series.
Thursday's event is a $300 no-limit hold'em tournament with re-entries available until the start of Level 5. Each player will receive 20,000 in chips and the blind levels will increase every 30 minutes. Today, for the first time ever, players 18-and-over will be permitted to play in an event held by the Seneca Poker Room. We'll keep any eye out for any youngsters who are competing in their first live tournament today.
Event #10 begins at 11 a.m., and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be bringing you hand updates, photos, chip counts and more from the floor of the Seneca Poker Room. As always, PokerNews will be activating the My Stack app for today's event, allowing players to directly update their chip counts in the PokerNews blog using their iPhone or Android phone. You can even write up hand recaps yourself to update your family and friends of your progress.
The action will get underway shortly. See you then!
Shuffle Up And Deal!
The cards are in the air here in Event #10. The tournament board currently reads 26 players, but we're expecting many more to filter in before registration closes in two hours.
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante:
Who's Here?
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante:
More Faces in the Crowd
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
WNY Poker Challenge Schedule/Results
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
Nine of the 16 events on the WNY Poker Challenge schedule are in the books. Here's a look at the winners so far, as well the the rest of the schedule this week:
| Event | Date | Time | Tournament | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday, March 28 | 11 a.m. | $200 No-Limit Hold'em* | Kevin Mathias |
| 2 | Saturday, March 29 | 11 a.m. | $500 No-Limit Hold'em* | Joseph Elia |
| 3 | Sunday, March 30 | 11 a.m. | $300 No-Limit Hold'em* | Tristran Coffin |
| 4 | Sunday March 30 | 6 p.m. | $100 No-Limit Hold'em | Nick Dipalma |
| 5 | Monday, March 31 | 11 a.m. | $150 No-Limit Hold'em | David Lisacchi |
| 6 | Monday, March 31 | 6 p.m. | $100 No-Limit Hold'em | Alex Barker |
| 7 | Tuesday, April 1 | 11 a.m. | $150 No-Limit Hold'em | David Kelly |
| 8 | Tuesday, April 1 | 6 p.m. | $100 No-Limit Hold'em | Marcy Jo Penkalski |
| 9 | Wednesday, April 2 | 11 a.m. | $100 Crazy Pineapple | Arthur Gates |
| 10 | Thursday, April 3 | 11 a.m. | $300 No-Limit Hold'em* | |
| 11 | Thursday, April 3 | 6 p.m. | $150 No-Limit Hold'em | |
| 12 | Friday, April 4 | 11 a.m. | $200 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Turbo* | |
| 13 | Friday, April 4 | 6 p.m. | $150 No-Limit Hold'em | |
| 14 | Saturday, April 5 | 11 a.m. | $1,100 Main Event ($100K Guaranteed)* | |
| 15 | Saturday, April 5 | 6 p.m. | $200 No-Limit Hold'em | |
| 16 | Sunday, April 6 | 11 a.m. | $300 No-Limit Hold'em* |
*Live reporting coverage by PokerNews
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante:
Player to Watch: Johannes Mueller
Level 3
: 75/150, 0 ante
Before the Western New York Poker Challenge kicked off last week, we put together a list of players to watch for the 16-tournament series. Some of them have already found success; Rick Block and Randy Pfeifer finished second and third in Event#2, respectively, and Jason Nablo made the final table in each of the first two events on the schedule.
Event #10 is the first we've seen of Johannes Mueller, another player who made our list. According to the Hendon Mob, Mueller has made the final table in 11 of his 21 career live tournament cashes, including the Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event last November (he finished fourth for $14,558). Mueller's first tournament win came a month later at the SuperStacks Hold'em Series at Turning Stone, and he kept the momentum going by winning a side event at the Borgata Winter Poker Open in January. Last month he placed seventh in a $1,100 Fallsview Poker Classic event for $18,134. That tournament was eventually won by Mike Leah.