2015 Western New York Poker Challenge

Event 8: $200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2015 Western New York Poker Challenge

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$5,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$170
Prize Pool
$27,132
Entries
168
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
4,000

Fill It Up

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

The late entries and re-entries keep coming and they can't seat them fast enough.

The board now reads 139 entries into Level 6 and this final $200 buy-in event is quickly becoming among the most popular of the series.

Get Off Of My Cloud

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante
Jill Cloud
Jill Cloud

Lackawanna, NY's Jill Cloud has emerged as the chip leader here building a massive early stack.

She's on better than 85,000 now after making a boat against a nut flush once and quad nines a little later.

Player Chips Progress
Jill Cloud
Jill Cloud
85,200

The Stacks

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Word on Greg Sutton is that he played pretty much every hand at his table until he ran out of chips.

Below is how the rest of the early leaders now stack up:

Player Chips Progress
Barry Kruger ca
Barry Kruger
57,800
25,100
25,100
Paul Bantle
Paul Bantle
42,500
15,000
15,000
Diana Piccioli
Diana Piccioli
41,800
1,900
1,900
Tim Becker
Tim Becker
28,200
-1,800
-1,800
Adam Smith us
Adam Smith
27,000
1,800
1,800
David Olshan us
David Olshan
6,125
-27,875
-27,875
Greg Sutton
Greg Sutton
Busted

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

The Collecter

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante
Rudy Navas
Rudy Navas

Turns out it was Rudy Navas who was the recipient of most of Greg Sutton's chips.

Navas simply sat back and called after flopping a boat on a {3-}{7-}{7-} flop, holding {3-}{3-}. Sutton had nines and while he did not improve, it didn't stop him betting every street.

Navas now has a contending stack as the seventh level plays out.

Player Chips Progress
Rudy Navas
Rudy Navas
68,000

Another One Bites The Rail

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante
Joe O'Keefe
Joe O'Keefe

Joe O'Keefe made the nut flush against a player with top pair and a willingness to get all his chips in the middle.

As a result, he now finds himself among the chip leaders.

Player Chips Progress
Joe O'Keefe us
Joe O'Keefe
60,000

Break!

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante

The players are off on an extended 15-minute break as the tournament staff colors up the green 25-denomination chips.

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100