$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1b Completed
2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
Buy-in
$170
Prize Pool
$91,893
Entries
569
Level
27
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Just 15 Survive Day 1b
![[user127999]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
The 2015 edition of Summer Slam kicked off at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel poker room today with the first two of four starting flights for Event #1, a $200 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament featuring 30-minute levels, 15,000-chip starting stacks, and a $50,000 guarantee.
The second flight drew a total of 96 entries, but just 15 players survived through 14 levels of play. Alex Rivera had over 200,000 chips heading into the late levels and looked like a lock for the chip lead. However, he dusted off a substantial portion of his stack and local rounder Jason Nablo out-chipped him at day's end, bagging 174,200 for the Day 1b lead.
All 15 players will return for Day 2 Sunday at 11 a.m. local time to play down to a champion. They will be joined by the 19 survivors from Day 1a and anyone who makes it through 14 levels of play from two more starting flights set for 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday.
The PokerNews Live Reporting team will return to cover all the action from those flights beginning Saturday at 11 a.m.
End of Day 1b Chip Counts (full)
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
174,200 | 91,200 |
|
169,300 | -20,700 |
|
|
158,900 | |
|
150,500 | 72,500 |
|
120,200 | |
|
|
118,200 | -1,800 |
|
|
90,700 | -41,300 |
|
86,000 | -120,600 |
|
|
68,400 | |
|
60,200 | 60,200 |
|
57,800 | -77,200 |
|
|
54,500 | |
|
50,900 | -4,100 |
|
46,000 | |
|
|
34,400 | -15,600 |
Five More Hands!
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
A draw was completed and the remaining players will play five more hands before bagging up.
Quadzilla!
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Jeff Kocz got it in preflop with aces in an 80k pot facing queens.
He managed to flop his opponent dead making quad aces and to add salt to the wound, the river came a queen.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000 | 120,000 |
Thomson Tamed
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Facing a 7,000 open from Jimmy Thomson, John Grace shoved all in for 22,000 effective. Thomson debated for a minute, but made the call with 
and was up against Grace's 
.
The 
flop gave Thomson outs, but he found none on the turn or river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
190,000 | 20,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
The Leaders
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Here's how the leader board looks with 18 players remaining:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
206,600 | |
|
|
170,000 | |
|
|
135,000 | -5,000 |
|
|
132,000 | 32,000 |
|
|
83,000 | 53,100 |
|
|
78,000 | 18,000 |
|
|
55,000 | |
|
|
50,000 | 8,000 |
|
|
43,000 | -55,000 |
|
|
16,000 | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Rivera On 200k-Plus
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Alex Rivera has pushed past the 200,000 chip mark now and into the lead.
First he took a huge chunk of chips from Peter Raimondi holding . Then, after the break, he busted a shorter stack who shoved into a king-high flop having made second pair.
Rivera had a king, it held and he's the boss now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
206,600 | 90,600 |
Grace Coolers Frisch
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
After a series if raises, John Grace and Nora Frisch get about 35,000 each in preflop, then get it all in on a 
flop after Grace shoves.
Turns out it was a classic cooler with Grace holding 
to Grace's 
and the aces held after the 
turn and 
river, sending Grace to the top of the counts and Frisch near the bottom.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
170,000 | 83,000 |
|
|
16,000 | -90,000 |