$600 Main Event
Day 1a Started
2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$600 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
Buy-in
$550
Entries
504
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
The 2015 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event Starts Now!
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The 2015 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event kicks off this morning with the first of two starting flights inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel just steps from majesty that is Niagara Falls.
Following weeks of live satellites and guarantee smashing Summer Slam events that have fattened the pockets of local grinders at the venue, there are already more than 100 qualifiers prepped to play, which should help ensure this event's $150,000 guarantee is not just met, but exceeded as well.
Last year, the 2014 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event drew 339 entries across two starting flights, with top local rounder Buck Ramsay earning the title and $41,000 in prize money following a heads-up deal with Jacob Ostrander.
Today, players will get going with 25,000 starting stacks and plans to play 15 full 40-minute levels beginning at 11 a.m. local time.
There will be a 45-minute dinner break after the 10th level and registration and unlimited re-entry is open until the dinner break is through at the start of Level 11.
With its deeper structure and bigger buy-in, this event is sure to attract Western New York's best poker players and if the prelim events on the Summer Slam schedule gave any indication, the action should be worth following.
Keep it locked right here on PokerNews for updates of all it live from the floor of the Niagara Falls Poker Room from start to finish.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
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Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Viva Johnny Vegas
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Buffalo's Johnny Vegas is enjoying a massage and the Day 1a Level 2 chip lead thanks to a massive hand in the early going that saw him stack a player.
He picked up suited big slick, flopped an ace and rivered a flush, getting the full double when he jammed on the end and his opponent called it off and mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 |
Demmerley Pushes Hard
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Local grinder Art Demmerley has been building stacks all week in the Summer Slam prelims and is off to a hot start in the Main Event right from the get go.
He picked up a straight, pushed it hard and got paid off big time.
Demmerley is now sitting on almost twice the starting stack into the day's second level with no plans to slow down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
45,300
45,300
|
45,300 |
Water The Gras
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Buffalo resident and Seneca cash game killer Chris Gras has jumped in to the early lead with more than triple the starting stack thanks to two massive hands.
First he collected a double up when one player blasted off on the river with an unconnected 
into his 
.
Then, he raised a bet on the turn of an 
board, got called and shoved the 
river.
His heads-up opponent called with 
for the low end of a straight, bit Gras had rivered the bigger one, holding a 
of his own.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
80,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Flopping The Nut Straight
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Armando Pagliari got off to a great start here flopping the nut straight with 
when the dealer rolled out the 
.
His luck got even better when he his opponent called a three-bet shove with and failed to fill up.
Pagliari now has almost twice what he started the day with.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
48,000 |