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Cheektowaga NY's EJ Villone is off to a hot start, having busted the player on his right with 
over 
and a turn, flop and river that kept his hand ahead the whole way.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
20,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Maria Parlatore called one opponent's shove on a 
flop with 
.
The 
turn kept her opponent's 
in the lead, but she busted him by making the nut flush on the 
river.
She now has almost double what she started with.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
18,500 |
Niagara Falls, NY's John Pittsley is running hot here in the first few levels.
He dragged a big pot with pocket nines and rivered a full house holding pocket fives to bust one player on the way to building a stack triple the size of what he started with.
A quick look around the room has Pittsley as the early leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
32,000 |
Rich Tomasello has almost four times the starting stack now thanks to a massive pot where he got it in behind and found a way to win.
It was Tomasello's 
versus his opponent's 
all in with one card to come and Tomasello hit his money card to make a Broadway straight on the river.
He's now taking up a spot among the early chip leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
39,000 |
Ash Levitt has pushed up among the leaders after a huge four-way all-in pot.
He didn't need it, but Levitt made a set of queens against players holding , and 
suited to drag the pot and stack them all.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
38,300 |
Ron Stewart flopped the nut flush and found an opponent all to willing to get it all his chips in the middle against him.
He's rode that big-pot win to a spot among the early leaders
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
37,000 |
Pat Moeller just jumped into the event less than a half hour ago and already has the biggest stack in the room, by a fairly large margin.
His meteoric rise has him on 90,000 and counting as he just picked up another pot. It started with his button raise to 2,600 that was defended by the big blind. Both players checked the 
flop.
But when the big blind made it 3,500 on the turn, Moeller pushed all in. The big blind folded to hand Moeller another win without showdown.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
90,000 |
Christine Hadcock got it in with 
holding the next-to-nut straight on a 
flop against a player with top pair to begin her climb to a spot near the top of the chip counts.
The Hamilton, Ontario, Canada resident is feeling right at home now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Kim Tipton is well on his way to building a big stack tonight thanks to a couple of big pairs.
He got paid off with at hist first table of the night and managed to do the same with at his new table moments ago.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
59,000
59,000
|
59,000 |
Milton, Ontario, Canada's Mike Bromley got no love from the dealers early and busted his first bullet real fast.
This second one has been considerably better with Bromley picking up not once, but twice, getting them in against pocket sevens and pocket queens to build what is now an 80,000-chip stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
80,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
