03-12-2015 10:41 UTC-4
Shayne Shackelford
The 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge Event 5: $25,000 Guaranteed $50 No-Limit Hold'em will play down
Over six Day 1 starting flights the event drew a huge 1,026 entries and re-entries, absolutely smashing the $25,000 guarantee.
Now, just 119 remain in the hunt for the title.
When play resumes at 12 p.m. local time they will all be looking up at Shayne Shackelford, who built a massive 520,000-chip stack on Day 1d.
No other player will come in with more than 200,000, although Day 1f leader Kyle Badger is close on 199,300.
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03-12-2015 13:01 UTC-4
Mike McKeever
Mike McKeever is sitting just to the left of start-of-day chip leader Shayne Shackelford and now has a stack to battle him with.
McKeever got it in with
The river came a spade and with Shackelford dipping down under 400,000, McKeever is now neck-in-neck with him for the chip lead.
Player
Chips
Progress
Mike McKeever
360,000
234,300
234,300
Shayne Shackelford
360,000
-160,000
-160,000
Busted
03-12-2015 13:15 UTC-4
Billy Snead
Billy Snead and Kimlong Trieu have chipped up and joined the neck-in-neck race for the top spot on the leaderboard.
Player
Chips
Progress
Kimlong Trieu
360,000
180,000
180,000
Billy Snead
355,000
200,900
200,900
03-12-2015 13:46 UTC-4
Brandon Louvier
Brandon Louvier has jumped into the chip lead after taking a huge pot off Shayne Shackelford with a very lucky river card.
Louvier called Shackelford's three-bet all in on the turn for some 200,000 holding
But that changed drastically after the
Player
Chips
Progress
Brandon Louvier
460,000
410,200
410,200
Shayne Shackelford
190,000
-250,000
-250,000
03-12-2015 14:18 UTC-4
Shayne Shackelford
Shayne Shackelford's collapse is now complete.
After coming in with a massive chip lead, he fell under 100,000 and finally got it all in with
The player with queens hit a set and Shackelford was bounced out.
Player
Chips
Progress
Shayne Shackelford
Busted
03-12-2015 15:22 UTC-4
Kyle Badger
Tensions are rising as each pot takes on more significance.
In the meantime, the room was hushed as Kyle Badger just leapfrogged Mike McKeever on the chip counts.
McKeever raised it up and Badger defended his big blind going heads up to an
Badger checked again on the
McKeever scowled and folded.
Player
Chips
Progress
Kyle Badger
410,000
120,000
120,000
Mike McKeever
190,000
-20,000
-20,000
03-12-2015 15:44 UTC-4
Jeff Klein
Jeff Klein has moved into the chip lead after a flurry of action.
First he pushed all in pushing Peter Craniotis off a 200,000 pot on an
Klein even managed to make quads on the river.
03-12-2015 16:06 UTC-4
Randy Pfeifer
Randy Pfeifer has skyrocketed into the chip lead and is closing in on the one-million chip mark now.
Pfeifer told PokerNews most of the chips were collected without showdown, including one hand where he picked up kings and pushed all in preflop after a series of raises, forcing a fold. His opponent showed jacks.
Player
Chips
Progress
Randy Pfeifer
950,000
490,000
490,000
03-12-2015 16:23 UTC-4
Peter Craniotis
Heading into the break Peter Craniotis made it 45,000 from the button and Tom Law defended his big blind.
The flop fell
Craniotis called with
Player
Chips
Progress
Peter Craniotis
1,000,000
360,000
360,000
Tom Law
Busted
03-12-2015 19:02 UTC-4
Brandon Louvier
Brandon Louvier made it 150,000 to go before Gary Espinosa pushed all in having him covered.
Louvier tank-called with
The
Player
Chips
Progress
Brandon Louvier
1,550,000
800,000
800,000
900,000
-800,000
-800,000
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on the turn of a board with two aces, two spades and a ten against Dominick Muto holding 
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on a 
board. Shackelford was ahead with 
for two pair.
river gave Louvier two bigger pair and now the chip lead.
turn. McKeever led out for 35,000 and Badger flatted.
river, but when McKeever bet 100,000, he pushed all in.
flop. Then he busted Mike Boncore flopping a set of eights against his top pair aces.
and Law checked. Craniotis made it 60,000 and Law pushed for 250,000 more.
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flop was safe for Espinosa and Louvier looked all but dead after the 
river to come back to life.