With two player notorious for building big stacks and blowing them up here at Seneca sat one seat away from each other, Table 8 here in the Niagara Falls Poker Room appears to be one worth watching as Level 11 comes to a close.
Talented local Nick Walker is certainly interested. He's on their direct left and licking his chops at the site of wildcards Alex Rivera and John Stempien.
They're all about evenly stacked going into the late levels, but history would suggest that's likely to change fast.
Todd Saffron just got it in against a short stack with threes against .
A nine flopped to put him behind, but Saffron busty the shorty thanks to a three on the river and now has the overall chip lead on 175,000 heading into the break with two levels left to play on the day.
Buffalo, NY's Kevin Reyes picked up two kings and raised it up. He got one caller holding the and when the flop came king-high with two clubs, they got it in.
Reyes faded the draw and now has a contending stack.
Toronto, Canada's Casey Smith raised it up and there was a three-bet right behind him. A third player cold four-bet all in and after Casey called his almost 60,000-chip stack off, the player on his left did as well.
Smith had the and was in the enviable position of both his shorter stacked opponents holding the and respectively.
The board ran out bringing little in the way of surprises and as his opponents hit the rail, Smith vaulted up to a spot among the late leaders.