2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic

$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1c
Event Info

2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$11,365
Event Info
Buy-in
$170
Prize Pool
$96,738
Entries
599
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

Gaddi Gets Two

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Christopher Gaddi made the call with {q-Diamonds}{q-Clubs} when two relatively short stacks both shoved in front of him.

One had 3,700 chips and the {8-Spades}{6-Spades}, while the other had 5,500 chips and the {a-Spades}{k-Spades}, but neither connected to the {4-Diamonds}{j-Spades}{4-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{6-Clubs} board, leaving them both broke in the end.

Player Chips Progress
Christopher Gaddi
Christopher Gaddi
41,000

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Wolfer Bites Back

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
Yong Wolfer
Yong Wolfer

Seneca standout Yong Wolfer is firing away right now and has moved into the top spot on the chip count list.

Things got rolling when he won a race with {a-}{j-} versus pocket fours to felt one player. Then he took down a number of pots without showdown.

One such hand started with a late position raise to 800 that the big blind defended. Both players checked the {9-Clubs}{9-Spades}{4-Hearts} flop, but when the big blind led for 2,000 on the {4-Diamonds} turn, Wolfer clicked it back to 4,000. The big blind called and the river came the {q-Diamonds}.

The big blind led again, making it 5,000 and Wolfer raised it up 12,000. The big blind folded and Wolfer's domination continued.

Player Chips Progress
Yong Wolfer
Yong Wolfer
65,000

Tags: Yong Wolfer

Roberts' Run

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts just won seven out of the last eight hands at his table, knocking out three people in the process.

Big hands included turning {k-}{10-} into Broadway against {a-}{q-}'s two pair, making a set of fives against top two, and turning his own {a-}{q-} into top two and aces full.

He's now in the lead into Level 5.

Player Chips Progress
Mark Roberts us
Mark Roberts
48,000

Tags: Mark Roberts

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

Break!

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

The players are off on a 10-minute break with the first four levels behind them.

Vitrano Gets There

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

Moved to a new table, Mark Vitrano opened up with a raise from early position with the {k-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}.

A few seats over, one opponent raised it up with the {q-Spades}{q-Hearts} before a third pushed in for 2,625 with the {a-Hearts}{k-Spades}.

Vitrano called that, and did the same when the player with queens came back over the top all in for 5,500.

Despite drawing super thin, somehow, someway, Vitrano found a way out of this mess, making a flush on the {j-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{a-Clubs} run out and pushing up close to the top of the chip counts.

Player Chips Progress
Mark Vitrano
Mark Vitrano
42,000
12,000
12,000

Tags: Mark Vitrano

Zed's Dead Baby, Zed's Dead

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

Erie, PA's Brandon Zygai has joined the early-double-up club.

He got his check-rasing all in on an {a-Spades}{j-Spades}{k-Spades} flop with the {k-Hearts}{k-Clubs}. His heads-up opponent called off with the {a-Clubs}{10-Clubs}, and despite identifying that he could hit a queen to win, did not do so on either the {7-Diamonds} turn or {10-Spades} river.

Player Chips Progress
Brandon Zygai
Brandon Zygai
30,000

Keep On Keepin' On

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

It just kept getting better for Randy Lingenfelter and his {5-Spades}{2-Spades}.

He flopped a pair and a flush draw on the {a-Spades}{3-Spades}{5-} flop. Then he turned trips on the {5-} turn. It got even better when he bet 8,000 and his opponent shoved with {a-}{q-}.

Lingenfelter called it off and the cherry on the cake was a spade on the river, making him a flush and the outright chip leader here in the day's fourth level.

Player Chips Progress
Randy Lingenfelter
Randy Lingenfelter
45,000
15,000
15,000

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25