Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Niagara Falls, NY local Anthony Knoll made a runner-runner flush to crack three aces and drag a decent pot.
Then he got in a preflop raising war with Rich Cadwallader that went from 1,500, to 3,200, to all in awful fast. Turned out Cadwallader had kings, Knoll had aces and they both wanted to play for stacks.
They both flopped a set and a Broadway draw to chop, but the aces held. Miraculously, Cadwallader still has twice the 15,000 chips everybody started with, but Knoll is now working with almost three times that.
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Buffalo NY's Tom Mistretta is off to a hot start.
He flopped middle two pair against top-pair top-kicker and let out for 3,000. His opponent pushed it all in and Mistratta called, held and doubled.
Soon after, he floated a flop bet with pocket fours against a flopped pair of aces, turned a set and dragged another big pot on his way over the 40,000 mark now.
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Rochester, NY's Sandy Ives thought her opponent might have a full house when she turned her ![]()
suited into three aces, so she played it safe.
Ives still managed to take most of his stack when she was proved wrong to move into a spot near the top of the early chip counts.
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
The players are off on a 10-minute break with the first four levels in the books.
Heading into the first break of the day, Mandeep Chahal has jumped into the chip lead.
The Brampton, ON, Canada resident just about tripled up in a huge hand moments ago.
He called an under the gun raise to 400 in late position going three ways to a flop when the small blind came along for the ride. The small blind checked the ![]()
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flop and the preflop raiser led lout for another 400. Chahal raised it up, making it 1,100 and the small blind put his full starting stack in.
Under the gun called all in for less with top two pair, Chahal called holding the ![]()
flush draw with the gutshot, and the small blind had ![]()
for the nut straight.
The
turn made Chahal his flush and
river gave him a better one to scoop the massive early pot.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25