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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."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
37,700 | 37,700 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Wilson, NY's Jason Harvey held 
versus 
on an flop to double up early.
Then he made trip nines at the same time as Scott Aitchison, but had him out-kicked. As a result, he's the early chip leader and the man to beat in Level 5.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
28,000 | 28,000 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Peter DeSantis is running like a God here early.
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
26,500 | 12,500 |
Scott Aitchison, who has turned Seneca Niagara into his own personal ATM by cashing in almost every event the poker room runs - Including a 41st place finish for $459 in the first event on the Summer Slam schedule Sunday - is on the pathway to another deep run here.
He raised it up preflop with the 
getting three callers before a 
flop fell.
It checked around, but when the 
came down on the turn, Aitchison managed to get one short stack holding to commit his chips drawing dead.
As a result, he's climbing up the early leader board and in contention as usual.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
17,300 | 17,300 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Cameron Bartolotta flopped a set of tens versus pocket aces in a massive pot that would have seen him take the chip lead as the money bubble approached on Day 2 of Event #1 Sunday.
Unfortunately for him, the turn came an ace, and although he hung on to cash, his dreams of another deep run here at Seneca Niagara were dashed.
He's back at it today, however, and thanks to finding quads and two full houses already, he has his stack in range of the early leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
17,600 | -100 |
Buffalo, NY's Jon Segun is off to a quick start.
The cagey veteran managed to get all of one player's chips with 
versus by flopping and ace and rivering a jack. All the money went in on the end and Segun found a double up and a spot among the early leaders
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
20,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
