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From the lone tournament table at the back of the Niagara Falls Poker Room, Louis Ortiz has emerged as the new chip leader.
He claims to have been hit by the deck all day, including one massive hand where he flopped a set of eights against a flush and found a boat on the river.
Ortiz is now closing in on 100,000 and separating from the pack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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90,000 |
Maine's Bill Tilden traveled to Western New York for the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic looking to make a little money.
So far things are going swimmingly, as he's steadily chipped up throughout the day and now finds himself as the first player past the 100,000-chip mark with Level 8 coming to a close.
One of his bigger hands included flopping trip kings, waiting for Kristan Mackiewicz to hit an ace on the turn, and then calling her turn and river bets to the tune of 18,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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101,000
101,000
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101,000 |
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50,000
-25,000
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-25,000 |
The players are now on a 15-minute break with the tournament staff coloring up and removing the T-25 green chips.
When they return for the start of Level 9, the registration and re-entry period will close for this flight. However, players can still get into the event through one of two more starting flights set for Saturday at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time.
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Toronto's Eric Ylagam is heating up here in Level 9.
He picked up massive pot with kings over big slick and has crested 80,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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80,300 |
Jimmy Thomson owns the New York Fish House at City Market off Pine Avenue here in Niagara Falls and just finished up at the restaurant, rushing to the poker room to late register 10-minutes before the end of Level 8.
He won a big hand heading into the break making a flush over two pair and returned to the start of Level 9 running even better.
Moments ago he made a massive 13,000-chip hero call for all his chips on an 
board with 
to drag a 66,000-chip pot against Bill Tilden's 
bluff. Then, just a couple hands later he chipped up again, flopping a set of threes and holding against a flush draw.
Thomson is now close to 100,000 after just a level and a third of play.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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93,000 | |
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65,000
-36,000
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-36,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
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.
Tonight, on the eve of his birthday, moments after re-entering the event more times than he would like to make public and offering this PokerNews reporter the chance to go to the game with him, Alex Rivera's name was randomly drawn.
He takes home tonight's Sabres tickets courtesy of the Niagara Falls Poker Room and is also building up a stack on this latest bullet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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45,000
45,000
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45,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Darryl Bagley just ran a huge bluff in a massive pot to crest the 100,000 mark and leap into contention.
The Niagara Falls, NY native was making all kinds of noise throughout the hand, begging the dealer for a favorable flop and calling out what he thought his opponent's cards were, Hollywooding the whole way. It all started when he and two others got a fourth player all in before the flop for 17,000 a piece.
The flop came 
flop and after two check's, one of Bagley's opponent's bet 13,000. Both players called creating a sizable side pot and the 
turn was revealed. Two more checks followed and Bagley's foe led for 26,000. The third player in the side pot folded and Bagley tank-called.
"Your ace of diamonds will not wind this hand," Bagley roared, as the 
river came down. Bagley promptly shoved, having his opponent's 36,000 behind barely covered. He tanked for five full minutes before letting it go.
Bagley was shipped the side pot showing the 
ten-high and the all in player took the main with the 
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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115,000
115,000
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115,000 |
