$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1d Completed
$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1d Completed
The fourth and final starting flight for the 2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam Event #1: $200 No-Limit Hold'em went off in Niagara Falls tonight, drawing 166 entries.
It was a star-studded affair with some of the area's best grinders firing away, including Andy Spears, Randy Pfeifer, and Travell Thomas. Hollywood actor and accomplished poker hobbyist Kirk Acevedo even added a little glitz to the event, building a big stack early, only to run bad late and eventually bust.
Thomas and Pfeifer also joined him on the rail, but Spears flirted with the chip lead all night long, eventually bagging a contending stack heading into Sunday's Day 2.
It was Vince Palma who busted Pfeifer, on what appeared to be his sixth bullet fired, and Palma rode that wave into a stack over 200,000, However, Charles Johnson won two races in the final level of the night to bag the Day 1d and overall chip lead on 244,200.
Through the four starting flights, a total of 569 entries created a whopping $91,893 prizepool, almost doubling the event's $50,000 guarantee. The top 54 spots will get paid a min-cash of $395, and first-place will earn a healthy $21,137.
Twenty-six survived this Day 1d and they will join the survivors from the first three starting flights for a total of 93 runners returning to play down to a champion beginning at 11 a.m. local time Sunday.
PokerNews' Live Reporting will resume from Western New York at that time, so stay tuned to our 2015 Seneca Summer Slam coverage.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Charles Johnson | 244,200 | 140,200 |
Rick Block | 208,900 | 178,900 |
Vince Palma | 203,500 | -16,500 |
William Ho | 168,500 | 33,500 |
Michael Russo | 139,600 | |
Weiyi Mo | 135,300 | 70,300 |
Joseph Elia | 133,600 | 55,600 |
Andy Spears | 132,900 | -62,100 |
Sandra Boyle
|
129,300 | |
Ariel Benarroch
|
117,400 | |
David Rosolowski | 101,400 | |
Antonio Loverso | 80,700 | |
Jeff DeVoesick
|
80,400 | 42,900 |
Tom Scanlon | 79,300 | -7,900 |
David Tesner
|
68,200 | |
Kai Michael Koppe
|
66,300 | |
Andrew Ranaletti
|
59,400 | |
Trieu Long
|
58,000 | |
Brian Rentschler | 48,600 | 48,600 |
Todd Miles | 40,700 | |
Martin Leon | 39,900 | |
Robert Koerntgen | 38,600 | |
Adam Stephany | 37,100 | |
Donald Wilson | 34,600 | |
Rodolpho Navas
|
28,300 |
A draw was conducted to determine the number of hands to play before the flight will come to a close. They drew a six and the remaining players will play six more hands before bagging up.
Vince Palma limped from under the gun plus one before Sal Incartona made a button raise to 5,000. The big blind called before Palma made it 22,000 total.
It came back to Incartona, who decided to bump it to 50,000 total and only Palma called. The flop came down and they quickly got the rest of the chips in. Palma was in great shape with versus Incartona's and managed to hold following the turn and river.
As a result, Plama moved into the chip lead and Incartona moved out of the poker room.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Vince Palma | 220,000 | 54,300 |
Sal Incartona
|
Busted |
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
Hollywood actor and accomplished poker enthusiast Kirk Acevedo got it in good with against William Ho's .
However, Acevedo could not fade Ho's flopped flush draw, with Ho turning the nuts to send him home short of Day 2.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
William Ho | 135,000 | |
Kirk Acevedo | Busted |
Andy Spears made it 4,500 under the gun and both blinds called. They all checked the flop, but when the turn fell and the small blind checked, the big led for 7,000.
Spears was the only caller, and after the river was revealed, the big blind fired again, making it 17,000. Spears made the quick call and as the big blind moved to muck, Spears showed to take it down, inching ever closer to the 200,000 chip mark and into the lead.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andy Spears | 195,000 | 40,000 |
Facing a 6,000 chip bet with about 12,000 in the middle on a flop, Randy Pfeifer shipped it in. Vincent Palma did the same behind, having him covered and the raiser folded.
Pfeifer needed help with the nut-flush draw against Palma's two pair, but got none on the turn and river.
With Pfeifer gone, Palma has moved to the top of the counts.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Vince Palma | 165,700 | 165,700 |
Randy Pfeifer | Busted |
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300