Level: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 500
Level: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 500
Buck Ramsay continues to lead heading into the first break of the day with the clock claiming 45 players remaining.
In the meantime, 2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic champ Rick Block has had a rocky start in defense of his title.
After running kings into aces he's holding on with 140,000 going into a 10-minute break that starts now.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Rick Block | 140,000 | -257,000 |
Yi-Wei Lu came into the day among the leaders, but has handed his spot to Joe Ciffa.
Lu doubled Ciffa on a jack-high board with after Ciffa made a set of sevens.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Joe Ciffa | 350,000 | 143,000 |
Yi-Wei Lu
|
120,000 | -275,500 |
The case nine just helped William 'TV' Ho take a huge chunk out of Pat Tighe and vault into a spot among the leaders.
Ho flopped a set of nines with the in the hole and Tighe's hit top pair with some back door possibilities.
They got it in for Ho's tournament life and the set held.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pat Tighe | 405,000 | -145,000 |
William Ho | 360,000 | 181,900 |
Some solid decisions have led Buck Ramsay back up into a dead heat with Pat Tighe for the lead now.
The latest included calling one shorter stack's 60,000-chip shove with two sixes. The pair held against on a queen-high board that gave Ramsay's opponent a gutter on the turn, but not much else.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Buck Ramsay | 550,000 | 88,500 |
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Sandra Boyle flirted with the lead for most of Day 1b, but found the exit early today.
She ran two jacks into St. Thomas, ON, Canada's Jason Park and his two aces. A board of bricks sent Boyle packing and vaulted Park up the counts.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jason Park | 240,000 | 151,500 |
Sandra Boyle
|
Busted |
Looks like an early shower for Canadian Cameron Bartolotta, who lost half his stack flopping a set of sevens, then calling off on the river of a four-heart board with the .
Turned out Anthony Sgroi had turned the nut flush and didn't need the fourth heart. Bartolotta busted soon after a table break.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Anthony Sgroi | 235,000 | 57,500 |
Cameron Bartolotta | Busted |
It's a slow start for everyone in the room outside of Pat Tighe, who continues on a heater from last night.
A number of short stacks busted to other short stacks, leaving just 54 remaining. But Tighe just moved into the lead, busting two players in a single hand and winning a 300,000 chip pot.
It was all in preflop with Tighe's holding versus Keith Mueller's and Joseph Calderon's on a board.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pat Tighe | 550,000 | 157,500 |
Joseph Calderon
|
Busted | |
Keith Mueller | Busted |
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500