$100 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Started
$100 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Started
The final day of the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic $100 No-Limit Hold'em $50,000 Guaranteed event will go down at inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino today.
After six starting days that drew 595 entries, just 120 stacks survived. With a few players taking advantage of the best stack forward policy and bagging twice, just under 120 players will start the chase for an $11,750 first-place prize at 11 a.m. local time this morning.
The levels increase to 30 minutes today, allowing for some additional play, with players first looking to bust through the 45-player money bubble before booking a spot at the final table where the lion's share of the prize pool awaits.
A massive hand late in the final flight put 2013 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event winner Andy Spears in top position going in with 286,700. In fact, Pat Tighe was the only other player to bag above 200,000 from any Day 1 flight.
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Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Level 15 starts the day with 114 on the board thanks to a few players bagging twice and taking advantage of the best-stack-forward provision.
However, that's bound to drop fast with a big number of double-up-or-go-home-early stack sizes in the mix.
Bruce Pace joined the six-figure stack club in the first level winning all of one player's chips in two hands.
First he got it in with against before hitting a jack on the river. Then he cracked the same player's with , hitting a on the river.
Pace has it quickly up to 115,000, is above average and loving the river right now.
In the meantime, Pat Tighe now leads and isn't even here yet. Andy Spears fell out of the top spot doubling up a bunch of short stacks. The first when he flopped a gutshot and was priced in to call. One pair held for the shorty there and when you add up the others, he's down about 100,000. Spears' chip count is bound to fluctuate a bunch today, as he plays a lot of hands and opens a ton of pots.
Spears was opening for the fifth hand in a row when he got involved in a pot that sent him soaring into the lead late last night. It seems that hand will be the stuff of legend around here for quite a while and we now have the details:
Spears led for 5,300 from early position at 1,200/2,400 with . A player behind made it 12,000. The small blind who had been talking about the fact he bagged in an earlier flight, and was playing to build a big stack or bust, flatted. Spears re-raised to 33,000. The player behind made it 80,000 and the small blind pushed all in for 110,000.
Spears pushed all in having them both covered and the player behind folded. The small blind had and queens held for Spears to give him a massive lead coming into the day without even a sweat.
A 15-minute color-up break starts now with the board reading 93 players left.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andy Spears |
170,000
-116,700
|
-116,700 |
Bruce Pace |
115,000
67,600
|
67,600 |
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Pat Tighe still leads despite still being at work. He should be here within the hour, but is blinding away as we speak.
In the meantime, Jerry Calvaneso just became Andy Spears's latest victim, flopping a straight against two pair in a 160,000-chip pot.
Spears turned a boat and is now back in contention for that lead.
Plus, Bruce Pace is out, blowing up a six-figure stack as quick as he built it.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pat Tighe |
230,500
-7,800
|
-7,800 |
Andy Spears |
220,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Bruce Pace | Busted |
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
My Stack App user Mike Rowe has jumped into contention after dragging a substantial three-way all in pot.
He has it up close to 200,000 now. The big hand started when he opened up with under the gun for 7,000. A player behind shoved for 35,000 and the big blind shoved having them both covered.
Rowe called all in, kings held, he's in the top three now, and the best way to update your chip count in this or any event remains the PokerNews My Stack App.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Joe Rowe | 193,000 |