$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1c Started
$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1c Started
The 2015 edition of Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam continues today with the the third of four starting flights for Event #1, a $200 buy-in No Limit Hold'em event with a $50,000 guarantee.
The annual multi-event series will run through August 2 with three major events culminating in the $600 NLHE Main Event with a $150,000 guarantee and the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on the floor providing coverage of it all.
A total of 34 players are already through to Sunday's Day 2 from two Event #1 flights Friday and things will get started at 11 a.m. today with 30-minute levels and 15,000-chip starting stacks in the battle to join that group.
Registration will remain open until the start of Level 9 and there is unlimited re-entries until then, plus a fourth and final flight set for 6 p.m. tonight.
Keep it locked here on PokerNews for updates on all the action from start to finish.
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Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Things are off to a typically slow start here on a Saturday morning with just 46 entries on the board.
Registration and re-entry is available until the start of Level 9 today, so that number should at least double by the time that mark is reached.
Erik Dzikowski now finds himself with the Level 1 chip lead here in Western New York.
He got the full double up and busted a player with a set-over-set cooler straight out of the gate.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Erik Dzikowski |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Fishers, NY's Cynthia Sharp flopped top set of queens and made the call when her heads-up opponent shoved with a pair and a flush draw.
She managed to fade all danger and push up close to the top of the early leader board collecting just shy of a full double up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Cynthia Sharp | 29,500 |
Tim Wildrick found a pair of kings with an ace kicker was enough to take a ton of chips from one player holding .
Although he was a bit sketchy about providing details of the hand to PokerNews, Wildrick is now one of the early chip leaders as Level 2 comes to a close.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tim Wildrick
|
29,600
29,600
|
29,600 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0