Mike 'The Mayor' Rellinger is off to the usual start, picking up aces three out of the last four hands and getting paid off because of his ultra-loose image.
The latest stride forward for Rellinger started with two limpers to him in the small blind. He woke up with and made it a whopping 2,300.
The big blind and the limpers did not believe, calling and sending them four ways to the flop. Rellinger led for 9,000. The big blind shipped it in for more than Rellinger's remaining 17,000-chip stack and after the limpers folded, Rellinger made the call.
The big blind had , missed his flush draw on the run out, and Rellinger now leads.
Toronto, Canada's Steve Chepurny has emerged as the chip leader heading into the break, grinding it up to 32,000.
The biggest pot he's played so far saw him pick up pocket kings and flop top set on a king-high board. Jacks called one bet, then folded to another, showing them on the turn.
In the meantime, Paul McLean got Steve Rokitka all in on a flop. McLean had the for bottom set against Rokitka's , but the turn turned things upside down.
Rokitka doubled and McLean was left to rebuild, somehow getting back to 9,300 a couple hands later.
A ten minute break starts now with the first four levels done.
Leave the gun and take the cannoli as the fifth 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 even video poker junkies who just won a jackpot, this $100 buy-in $50,000 guaranteed, multiple starting flight, multiple re-entry event promises to be action packed, 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 57 players are already there from the first four flights this week with Day 1d chip leader Pat Tighe and his 238,300-chip stack leading right now.
Registration and unlimited re-entry is available through the start of Level 9. With one more starting flight set for tonight at 6 p.m. local time tonight, players can play more than one, even if they bag chips, taking their best stack forward.
The Niagara Falls Poker Room's reputation for laying its guarantees to waste is on the line today, currently needing 322 entries over today's two flights to make the guarantee, which should make for big fields and a ton of action today.
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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and made it a whopping 2,300. 
flop. Rellinger led for 9,000. The big blind shipped it in for more than Rellinger's remaining 17,000-chip stack and after the limpers folded, Rellinger made the call.
, missed his flush draw on the 
run out, and Rellinger now leads.
flop. McLean had the 
for bottom set against Rokitka's 
turn turned things upside down.
