$600 Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2015 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$600 Main Event
Day: 1b
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
57 of 309 Survive The Second Flight; 90 Total Through to Day 2
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Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
The second of two Day 1 starting flights for the 2015 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event drew a whopping 309 entries to the Niagara Falls Poker Room at Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel on Saturday.
That brought the total entries up to 504, absolutely crushing the $150,000 guarantee. The $550+$50 buy-in created a big $267,498 prizepool that will pay 54 spots. A min-cash will be worth $1,150, and first place will pay a healthy $61,535.
By the time the first 15 levels of play were done, just 57 remained. They will join the 33 survivors from Day 1a in returning to play for the title and huge stacks of cash beginning at 11 a.m. on Sunday.
Using his classic over-betting and loose-calling style, Bruce Pace built a large stack of chips, pushing up over 500,000 at one time, claiming victim after victim on the way to a grand lead. Yet, somehow, he let it slip away at the end of the last level of the night, bagging 259,500, with Erie, PA's Jeff Wells making a couple of big hands against him to snatch that lead away.
Thanks to Pace, Wells will take the overall lead into Day 2 with 456,000.
Hollywood actor and poker enthusiast Kirk Acevedo got some time off from filming a TV show in nearby Toronto, Canada, and turned up to play today, bagging an impressive 303,000-chip stack thanks to some solid grinding and a big three-way all-in pot late.
Just Acevedo, Torontonian William Liang, Wells, and Day 1a chip leader Jeffrey Hobrecker will come into Day 2 over the 300,000-chip mark.
Expect tons of action when the chase for the title and $61,535 first-place prize kicks of Sunday at 11 a.m. local time with 90 players remaining, and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will endeavor to bring it all to you, right here in this space.
End of Day 1b Counts (full)
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
456,000 | 286,000 |
|
369,000 | 67,000 |
|
303,000 | -2,000 |
|
296,500 | |
|
259,500 | -270,500 |
|
252,500 | 52,500 |
|
246,500 | 217,000 |
|
|
234,000 | |
|
231,500 | |
|
215,000 | |
|
209,000 | |
|
203,500 | 113,500 |
|
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | 49,000 |
|
199,500 | |
|
193,000 | 68,000 |
|
|
180,500 | |
|
|
163,500 | |
|
|
144,500 | |
|
|
144,500 | -30,500 |
|
|
135,000 | |
|
|
121,000 | |
|
|
120,500 | |
|
114,000 | |
|
111,000 |
Four More Hands!
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
A draw was conducted to determine the number of hands to play before bagging up for the night. They drew a four.
Pace Collects Collson
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Bruce Pace has claimed another victim here and it was none other than Former PokerNews Managing Editor Brett Collson.
Collson flopped top pair aces with 
, check-called a Pace bet on the flop, then jammed the turn when he picked up a flush draw. Pace called with 
and held when the river bricked.
While Collson hit the rail, Pace moved over the 500,000-chip mark and will surely bag a big lead headed to Day 2 Sunday.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
530,000 | 135,000 |
|
Busted |
Acevedo Ascends
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Veteran Hollywood actor and savvy poker enthusiast Kirk Acevedo found himself with the best of it in a three-way all-in pot moments ago.
His kings held against queens and ace-king to push him over 300,000 and it appears he'll be headed to Day 2 on heaps of chips with less than half of the last level of the night left to play.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
305,000 | 190,000 |
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Collson Heats Up
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Former PokerNews Managing Editor turned iBus Media Sports Editor-in-Chief Brett Collson just pushed up to the 100,000-chip mark here in Niagara Falls.
He ran jacks into 
, doubling to 65,000, then got some value out of pocket kings in a muti-way pot to get to six figures.
A veteran of the poker and sports media industries, Collson's a proven entity when it comes to writing about the game.
He's also been trying to convince the public for years he knows what to do with chips once he gets them.
Right now, just outside his hometown of Buffalo, NY at the 2015 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event would appear to be the perfect time and place to prove it.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000 |
Liang Climbing
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Toronto, Canada's William Liang is a serious threat right now after picking up kings to drag an almost 200,000-chip pot.
Once stacked, he managed to pick up another one getting some decent value out of big slick, turning top-pair top-kicker and value betting the river.
A quick look around the room shows Bruce Pace as the only other player over 300,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
302,000 |
Urbanski Flops It
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Hamburg, NY's Tom Urbanski won a huge pot before the break to jump up to 200,000 in chips.
He got Nino Loverso and Bruce Pace to call his 30,000-chip check-raise from the small blind on a 
flop, then jammed the 
turn for 88,000.
Loverso called with pocket queens and even though Pace folded, Urbanski collected heaps when his 
trips held on the 
river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
200,000 | 200,000 |
|
|
80,000 | 80,000 |