$200 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1c | 2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam

07-25-2015 15:42 UTC-4

Like A Rock

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Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Lancaster, NY's Jim Girdelstone, not to be confused with his brother Marvin Girdelstone who also has a big stack, has emerged as the chip leader here, pushing up close to the six-figure mark.

Girdelstone has been on the right side of two set-over-set hands and managed to get it in with pocket kings versus pocket aces, making a flush to crack the rockets thanks to the and a board full of clubs.

He's now on 90,300 and counting.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jim Girdelstone	90,300 90,300	90,300

Tags: Jim Girdelstone

07-25-2015 15:55 UTC-4

Zimmerman Pays The Rent

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Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Cynthia Sharp limped in before Doug Zimmerman made it 3,000 to go. Tim Rentschler made the call before the player on the button three-bet, making it 14,000 all day.

Sharp folded, but Zimmerman did not, pushing it all in. Rentschler made the call for his tournament life and the button tossed his hand in the muck. It was Zimmerman's in a classic race with Rentschler's . Somehow the eights held on a board to effectively triple up Rentschler.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tim Rentschler	45,000 45,000	45,000
Doug Zimmerman	35,000 -17,000	-17,000

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

07-25-2015 16:08 UTC-4

The Leaders

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Here's how the chip leaders are faring now into Level 10:

Player	Chips	Progress
Jim Girdelstone	101,500 11,200	11,200
Rob Forbes	74,000 9,000	9,000
Bill Snead	66,000 -4,000	-4,000
Craig Ross	65,300 -5,700	-5,700
Daniele Scalini	62,000 13,000	13,000
Tom Scanlon	62,000 16,000	16,000
Vadim Rozin	49,000 16,000	16,000
Tim Rentschler	45,500 500	500
Marvin Girdelstone	40,000 -20,300	-20,300
Doug Zimmerman	30,500 -4,500	-4,500
Cynthia Sharp	28,500 -1,000	-1,000
Tim Wildrick	24,000 -5,600	-5,600
Shamel Thomas	20,800 -17,200	-17,200
Kyle Jeffery	Busted
Erik Dzikowski	Busted

07-25-2015 16:30 UTC-4

Hollywood Swinging

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

The 2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam $200 No-Limit Hold'em Event #1 saw a little bit of Hollywood glitz here today as veteran actor Kirk Acevedo joined the field.

Having earned acting credits in films like Boiler Room, Invincible and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Acevedo has also appeared in a number of top TV shows including The Walking Dead, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Fringe.

Acevedo is no stranger to poker either, having $99,570 in career tournament earnings and a solid resume that boasts cashes in events all the way back to the 2006 Legends of Poker in Los Angeles.

His appearance here in Niagara Falls was ever so brief, however, as he got it in with a straight draw in a battle of the blinds against an overpair, missed and busted.