Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic
$1,000 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic
Buy-in
$910
Prize Pool
$256,866
Entries
291
Level
28
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Dinner Break!
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Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The players are off on a 45-minute dinner break, enjoying a fabulous buffet courtesy of the Niagara Falls Poker Room.
When play resumes at approximately 7:10 p.m. local time, the registration and re-entry period for this event will officially close. Although there is a second Day 1 flight set for tomorrow at 11 a.m. local time.
In the meantime, it appears defending Seneca Niagara Fall Poker Classic champ Rick Block is among the current chip leaders.
Block came all the way up from Alden, NY to defend his title today, and it appears he's making a legitimate run at it, considering his Friday's are usually spent throwing back Genny Lights at the Alden Bowling Center.
But the man on top right now is Niagara Falls, NY's own Andy Ranaletti. He cracked aces flopping trips with the 
on a 
board to climb the counts. Then he rivered tens full against trips to drag a massive pot and move into the lead heading into the break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000 | 170,000 |
Beshay Gets There For Heaps
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Mississauga, ON, Canada's Peter Beshay is the latest player past the six-figure mark here, jumping into contention after winning a massive three-way pot.
A player with 
flopped a wheel on a 
board against another holding and a set.
Beshay decided to hang around with the 
and the on the river changed all their fortunes, making Beshay the bigger straight and the bigger stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
101,400 | 101,400 |
A Sour Patch
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Silvio DeRubeis made it 2,000 and Jason Nablo three-bet from the big blind to 6,500.
DeRubeis four-bet shoved pocket eights and held to double when Nablo called with and whiffed.
DeRubeis is now making a move up the leader board and the sour Nablo is a favorite to bubble the dinner break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | 20,000 |
|
10,000 | 10,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Block Leads; Spears Swears Blood Vendetta Against Tomorrow's Day 1b Field
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Rick Block made it 1,400 from late position and Joe Ciffa flatted from the cutoff. It folded to Andy Spears in the big blind and he three-bet, making it 6,500.
Block fired back, making it 15,000, and after Ciffa released, Spears pushed his entire 69,000-chip stack in the middle.
Block snap-called with the 
setting up a classic showdown against Spears' 
with dealer Eddy Williams nowhere to be found.
The board rolled out 
to the turn, but Spears vowed to return again tomorrow when the 
river came down, knocking him out and pushing Block up to the top of the counts.
"See you tomorrow," the always affable Spears said genuinely, with a smile and zero animosity towards Block or anyone else.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
155,000 | 90,000 |
|
Busted |
Elia Fills Up
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Consistent contender Joseph Elia joined four others calling an 1,800 open with the 
. But he was the only caller when Rick Block made it 3,200 on the 
flop.
Elia filled up on the turn and raised a Block bet. Block called that, and another bet when the river bricked, allowing Elia to move across the six-figure mark.
Block still remains healthy, however, now defending his title with 65,000 into Level 9.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
105,000 | 105,000 |
|
|
65,000 | -12,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Thinh Lead(s)
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Mississauga, ON, Canada's Thinh 'Mike' Bui has jumped into the chip lead heading into the break.
He won a race with fours over to send one short stack home. He also got it in with queens against nines to take all the chips in an even bigger stack.
Add that to a his fair share of uncontested pots and no-show wins and Bui is up to 145,000 now heading into a 15-minute color-up break that starts right now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
145,000 | 145,000 |
Where There's A Will, There's a Wei
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
University of Rochester student Yi-Wei Lu has emerged as the chip leader and the first player over and above the 100,000-chip mark.
He picked up aces early to start the climb up to the top spot and just got there, busting John Stempien in the process.
Lu shoved top pair and a flush draw and Stempien called it off with his same top pair outkicked. Lu's beat Stempien's 
flushing out on the river, even though he didn't need it to.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
140,000 | 140,000 |