$100 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1d Started
$100 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1d Started
Tune in, turn on and drop out as as the fourth 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 pit players on a freeroll, this $100 buy-in $50,000 guaranteed, multiple starting flight, multiple re-entry event is big and getting bigger, as players fire away all day and night for a shot at big score.
They will get 15,000 chips to 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 40 players are already there from the 213 total entries in first three flights. Day 1a chip leader Anthony Knoll and his 161,400-chip stack is ahead by a nose after Warren Hart bagged 161,000 in the early flight today.
Registration and unlimited re-entry is available through the start of Level 9. With two more starting flights also set for tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., players can always get in 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.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
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Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Players in the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic have been asked to fill out a PokerNews ID card that will be used to help follow their progress in these events.
Each night the tournament staff here at the Niagara Falls Poker Room is planning to collect up those cards and enter them in a draw for one of ten pairs of Buffalo Sabres tickets. Players will get one entry for every bullet they fire.
If you're playing in one of six starting flights in this event, make sure to fill out the card with your email address to win Sabres tickets courtesy of the Niagara Falls Poker Room.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
It looks like Fast Eddie's Tuesday night home game in Lackawanna with all these familiar faces in here — Or the $2/$5 in the back of the Niagara Falls Poker Room.
Among those recognizable in the field is Pat Tighe, who takes the chip lead into the level before the first break having built it up close to a double up without having to show much at all.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pat Tighe |
28,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
John Abraham |
17,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
John Stempien |
16,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
Scott Aitchison |
15,500
15,500
|
15,500 |
Rick Block |
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Silvio DeRubeis |
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Dan Wagner |
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Serial Seneca tournament contender Paul McLean heads into the break among the early leaders with the board reading 61 entries so far.
He smooth called a raise with pocket kings, then moved in when his opponent bet 10,000 chips on a flop with two hearts.
McLean got his opponent to fold after putting in most of his stack and has risen steadily up and over 38,000 since.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Paul McLean |
38,300
38,300
|
38,300 |