The 2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam continued today with the first of six starting flights in Event #3, a $50 No-Limit Hold'em tournament with a $25,000 guarantee.
The flight drew a total of 117 entries, playing down to just 15 remaining players as Level 15 came to a close. Kyle Jeffery fired a late bullet into the flight and quickly ran it up, making hand after hand until he bagged 204,200. No one is even really close at this point.
These 15 survivors will come back to play down to a champion Thursday, but the event continues at 6 p.m. ;local time this evening with a second starting flight.
Stay tuned for a ton of action from the falls as the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand for it all from start to finish.
Kyle Jeffery has emerged as not just the first player past the 100,000-chip mark, but the first player past the 200,000-chip mark.
He made a set of eights and faded a combo draw to drag a six-figure pot and is now cruising to the close with 210,000 in chips and a massive lead over the remaining field.
After a massive hand where she turned into a full house against a made straight and a flush draw to triple up, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada's Gail Bates has emerged as the chip leader here in Level 12.
Bates also told PokerNews she's been in the right place, at the right time, and with the right hand all day long on her way up close to the 100,000-chip mark already.
Akron, NY's Bob Wideman is having the kind of day poker players usually only dream of.
He got all of one player's stack holding with against all in preflop, then flopped two sets of deuces and a set of fives three hands in a row to drag three more pots.
As a result, he now finds himself at the top of the counts as this flight's 10th level comes to a close.
St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada's Steve Auld has vaulted into the lead here early.
He told PokerNews a fishy table draw is the main reason. In fact, he hasn't really won a big pot yet despite building a stack close to four buy-ins into Level 6.
"I've caught a lot of fish" he said. "A lot of little ones really."
He made it five times the blind preflop early on with , flopped trip eights and managed to get Kristan Mackiewicz to commit all here chips with pocket nines.
She headed to the cage to fire another bullet as DeSantis climbed up the leader board.
The 2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam continues this morning with the first of six starting flights in Event #3, a $50 No-Limit Hold'em tournament with a $25,000 guarantee, kicking off at 11 a.m. local time in Western New York.
The six starting flights will include a second at 6 p.m. this evening and four more over the next two days with any and all survivors coming back to play down to a champion Thursday. At this price point, and with this many chances to get in, this event should attract a bevvy of local rounders firing multiple bullets and recreational players taking shots, creating a massive prizepool that will surely dwarf the guarantee.
The last time Seneca Niagara tried something like this was at the 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge in March. The event saw 1,026 entries over six different starting flights creating a $41,040 prizepool. By all accounts it was a smashing success with veteran local rounder Randy Pfeifer being crowned the champion.
Today, players will start with 10,000 in tournament chips with plans to play 15 full 20-minute levels. Registration and unlimited re-entry is available until the start of level 13.
Stay tuned for a ton of action from the falls as the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand for it all from start to finish.
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into a full house against a made straight and a flush draw to triple up, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada's Gail Bates has emerged as the chip leader here in Level 12.
, flopped trip eights and managed to get Kristan Mackiewicz to commit all here chips with pocket nines.
