The third of six starting flights for this third event on the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic schedule drew 63 entries at the Niagara Falls Poker Room inside the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino today.
From there, just 11 made it through to the final day of the $50,000 Guaranteed $100 No-Limit Hold'em event set for Thursday — Joining the 29 through from the first two flights Monday.
With 213 entries so far, the event isn't exactly on pace to meet the guarantee, but big numbers are expected in two more evening flights and one more during the day.
Mark Roberts grabbed the chip lead four-flushing in a huge three-way all in pot, before getting the better of John Stempien to crest the 100,000 mark. In the end, he bagged 147,000.
But it was Canadian Warren Hart who bagged the lead, playing in his second-ever tournament after the first ended with a 15th-place finish in Event #1 here. He ran hot both early and late to bag 161,000.
Kevork Garabedian is the only other player past the six figure mark, but Michelle Caldwell bagged close to it with 98,300.
With the first three flights now out of the way, the fourth goes off at 6 p.m. local time.
Tune in then as PokerNews will be on hand to capture all the action from start to finish.
Rochester, NY's Jin Quinn is on a heater out of the gate today.
"I've ran red hot the last half hour or so," he told PokerNews.
Highlights have included a full house over a straight for stacks and another big pot he took down with a set.
With the board reading 33 entries and the average still around the starting stack, Quinn will take a very cool sounding name and the early lead into the level before the first break.
Get it locked, loaded and ready to fire as the third 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 morning.
Set at a price-point designed to attract top local rounders, recreational players and home gamers who think they might be on a heater, this $100 buy-in $50,000 guaranteed, multiple starting flight, multiple re-entry event promises to be exciting, as players fire away all day and night for a shot at big score.
They 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 29 players are already there from the first two flights Monday with Day 1a chip leader Anthony Knoll and his 161,400-chip stack leading right now.
Registration and unlimited re-entry is available through the start of Level 9. With three more starting flights over the next two days, including another at 6 p.m. local time tonight, 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 11 a.m. local time, and you're welcome to follow along right here.
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