Event 5: $50 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1b | 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge

Event 5: $50 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1b Started

03-09-2015 18:31 UTC-4

Day 1b Starts Now!

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Day 1b of Event #5, a $25,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold'em tournament with a $50 buy-in, will kick off just moments from now.

This is second of six starting flights that will play out over the next three days. The first wrapped up just after 4 p.m. local time this afternoon with 113 total entries and just 13 survivors.

Players get 10,000 in tournament chips and will play 15 20-minute levels or until just 12 percent of the total entries remain.

Players are allowed unlimited re-entries up until the start of the 13th level and can jump in as many starting flights as they like, carrying the biggest stack forward to Thursday's second and final day.

The affordable buy-in and re-entry format is designed to attract both veteran rounders and recreational players and should be a fun ride throughout as players try to build a contending stack.

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team promises keep you updated on all the action throughout the evening.

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

03-09-2015 19:01 UTC-4

It's On

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Level 1 : 25/50, 0 ante

Play begins with the board reading 49 entries and several players still signing up at the cage.

03-09-2015 19:14 UTC-4

Four For Four

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Level 1 : 25/50, 0 ante

Fresh off a fourth-place finish in last night's Event #4, Randy Lingenfelter is on the grind again today.

Moments ago he got off to a good start joining one other player in calling an early position open. Lingenfelter checked the flop, but when the opener bet 300 and the third player in the hand called, he raised it up to 1,200.

Everybody folded and Lingenfelter dragged the pot showing for two pair.

Player	Chips	Progress
Randy Lingenfelter	11,000

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

03-09-2015 19:27 UTC-4

Tipping The Scales

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Level 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

Kim Tipton was one of the 13 survivors through to Day 2 from the Day 1a flight earlier today.

However, since he bagged a relatively short stack of under 40,000, he figured he'd fire another bullet this evening. Well, he's off to a pretty good start after doubling up early.

He bet 1,200 chips into a board before his heads-up opponent shipped in her entire stack. Tipton made the call with and was right as she held .