Sit back and strap in, this ride could get a little bumpy as the second of six starting flights for the third event on the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic schedule kicks off inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room this evening.
Set at a price-point designed to attract top local rounders, recreational players and even slot players fresh off the local shuttles, this $100 buy-in $50,000 guaranteed, multiple starting flight, multiple re-entry event promises to be a wild one, as players fire away all day and night for a shot at a big score.
Players will get 15,000 chips at the start and must play through fourteen 20-minute levels, or until 12 per cent of the starting field remains, to push through to Thursday's second and final day. A total of 13 players are already there from the 56-player first flight this morning.
Registration and unlimited re-entry is available through the start of Level 9. As previously mentioned, this event has six starting flights over the next three days, including two more at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time tomorrow, and players can play more than one even if they bag chips, taking their best stack forward.
The quicker structure, affordable buy-in and the Niagara Falls Poker Room's reputation for laying its guarantees to waste should make for big fields and a ton of action as this event plays out.
PokerNews will of course be on hand for it all, continuing at 6 p.m. local time, so just sit back and enjoy the ride.
The very same man who won the draw for the Buffalo Sabres tickets the other night has earned the chip lead here into Level 3 with an early double up.
Facing a 500-chip early position open, Alex Rivera bumped it to 1,100 and got the call. Heads-up on the flop with one spade, both players checked. Rivera's opponent led out for 300 on the turn and he raised to 1,300.
After calling, Rivera's opponent led out for 3,000 on the river and Rivera pushed all in for the rest of a full starting stack. Rivera's opponent called, mucked and headed out the door when Rivera turned over the .
With about 10,000 chips in the middle already, Niagara Falls Poker Room tournament grinder Alicia LaPorte Pachla went with the , getting her last 10,000 all in on a board with quads, when her opponent bet 3,000 on the river.
He called it off with the full house in a huge early set up that put him out and sent Pachla into the break with an early double up.
Buffalo, NY local Leo Kaplin has emerged as the chip leader heading into the second and final break of the day.
"I'm just catching a lot on the river," he told PokerNews, explaining that he had hold over in one big pot and has climbed close to five times the starting stack thanks to a fair amount of positivity on fifth street.
The board currently reads 90 entries with 54 left and the average stack at 25,000 — Kaplin is pushing close to three times that now.
The second of six starting flights for this third event on the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic schedule drew 94 entries at the Niagara Falls Poker Room inside the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino tonight.
From there, just 16 made it through to the final day of the $50,000 Guaranteed $100 No-Limit Hold'em event set for Thursday — Joining the 13 that came through from a 56 player field in the morning session.
With 150 entries so far, the event isn't exactly on pace to meet the guarantee, but big numbers are expected in four more flights over the next two days, making it a good bet to happen.
Jim Goertz busted Marcy Jo Phillips in a set-over-set debacle to push into the chip lead as the day wore on. However, local tourney grinder Keith Mueller made quads against him to take that lead into the last level of the night.
In the end, a late rush from local Edward Rice saw him grab the overnight lead on 152,200.
Just seven other players made it past the six-figure mark, including PokerNews Pal Alex Rivera, going from 45,000 to over 130,00 by playing every one of the last six hands.
However, they all still trail Day 1a chip leader Anthony Knoll and the 161,400-chip stack he built in the early flight.
With Monday and the first two flights now out of the way, the third and fourth flights will go off tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time.
Tune in then as PokerNews will be on hand to capture all the action from start to finish.
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flop with one spade, both players checked. Rivera's opponent led out for 300 on the 
turn and he raised to 1,300. 
river and Rivera pushed all in for the rest of a full starting stack. Rivera's opponent called, mucked and headed out the door when Rivera turned over the 
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, getting her last 10,000 all in on a 
in one big pot and has climbed close to five times the starting stack thanks to a fair amount of positivity on fifth street.
