2014 Western New York Poker Challenge

Event 12: $200 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Turbo
Day: 1
Event Info
2014 Western New York Poker Challenge
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a6
Prize
$6,422
Event Info
Buy-in
$170
Prize Pool
$22,933
Total Entries
141
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 141
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Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Updated Stacks

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Level: 10

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 200

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Hoss Flips a Virtual Coin

Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante
Hoss Colao
Hoss Colao

With the board showing {2-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{9-Spades}{J-Spades}{5-Hearts}, Hoss Colao bet an unknown amount and Dean Metzger raised to 12,700 total. Colao went into the tank, and eventually opted to let technology decide his fate. He opened up a Coin Flip app on his phone.

"Heads I call, tails I fold," he told Metzger.

It landed heads, and Colao stuck to his promise.

"Good call," Metzger said as he tabled {10-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} for ten-high. Colao revealed his winning {K-Spades}{J-Clubs}

"Does it always come up heads?" someone at the tabled asked.

Colao: "No, but I do whatever it says."

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Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

Rivers Keeps Rolling

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante

We walked up on a big pot brewing between Ryan Rivers and Alex Barker. With 26,000 in the pot already, Rivers and Barker saw a flop of {9-Spades}{10-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} and both checked. The {9-Diamonds} hit the turn and Rivers bet 10,000, enough to put Barker all in. Barker tossed his lone T10,000 chip into the pot for the call.

Rivers: {A-Diamonds}{A-Hearts}
Barker: {A-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}

Barker was already drawing dead, and the meaningless {8-Hearts} completed the board to send Barker to the rail.

Dan Piccioli doubled through Rivers on the next hand, but yesterday's runner-up in Event #10 is still sitting comfortably with around 65,000.

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Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

Olshan Makes a Straight Flush

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante
Aaron Olshan
Aaron Olshan

Sharman Olshan called us over to tell us that her son, Aaron Olshan, had made a queen-high straight flush and got paid off on it. Sharman is seated two seats to the left of Aaron, so she had a good view of the big pot.

When browsing through our Player Updates section, it appears Sonny Rattan was the victim of the straight flush. Here's Rattan's report:

"Just lost with K high flush, to a straight flush. Gotta get some back."