Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic
$1,000 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$264,810
Entries
300
Level
27
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Pair Over Pair Over Pair
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Level 4
: 100/200, 25 ante
Amherst, NY's Jason Garafalo has joined the early leaders thanks to one massive pot.
He called down one player's all-in move in a 50,000-chip pot with an overpair to the board and was lucky enough to have a player behind fold a bigger one.
His tens were good against a smaller pair with a combo draw, but wouldn't have been against the player behind's queens. Tens ultimately held and Garafalo is feeling blessed with almost 70,000 now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
69,425 | 69,425 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Drama Kings
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Joseph Elia is no stranger to big dramatic hands here at Seneca Niagara, even in the first few levels of a Main Event.
His run in the 2016 Summer Slam Main Event was the kind of roller coaster ride players are still talking about here at Seneca.
He just sat down today and managed to get in a rather sizeable pot three-ways already, making a solid check-call with kings on a ten-high board holding all kinds of straight possibilities. Turns out he was right, his opponent had missed and Elia now sits on 53,000 and counting.
Leo Kaplin also went the calling route to get close to a double up, holding just a pair of eights and an ace kicker. His opponent fired three barrels with a smaller pair and an unafraid Kaplin has almost 60,000 now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000 | |
|
53,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Gerstenzang Gangs Up On Tighe
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Otto, NY's Rob Gerstenzang has moved up into a spot among the leaders cooling off Pat Tighe in the process.
Gerstenzang took heaps off the usually hot-running Tighe, making a flush over a Broadway straight, and is in contention early here in Level 3.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000 | |
|
9,500 |
The Cooler
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Springville, NY's Bill Bramer is the ultimately cooler.
You hear the moans and groans coming from the players when he sits down in the box inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino. Everybody loves the guy, but they know what's coming.
Bramer has been dealing out more than anyone's fair share of bad beats since he started dealing poker at the Seneca Gaming & Entertainment Salamanca Poker Room more than 12 years ago, and here at the sister property in Niagara Falls for the past four.
If there's a river that will crush your soul, somehow Bramer always finds a way to bring it out of the deck. When he sits down at a tournament table, somebody is about to get up. Practically all he has to do is walk by a table, cash or tournament, and one player or another is going to go broke.
The fun loving 58-year-old former machinist loves the job, and definitely doesn't enjoy dealing out other people's misery all the time.
"Unless they're mean to me," he told PokerNews. "Then maybe in secret."
In truth, Bramer says understand why some people get up and leave the table when he sits down, and often get a little miffed with him. He is a cooler and he knows it.
"They get over it after a while," he said. "They know it's not my fault, that's the way the cards fall sometimes. That's just poker."
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Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
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Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Ramsay Moves In, Up
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Multiple Seneca Niagara title holder Buck Ramsay has suddenly joined David Boskovic at the table and the top of the counts.
Details escaped us, but the skinny is Ramsay made the nut flush to take almost all of Sharman Olshan's chips and some of Johnny Vegas' as well.
Olshan was left with crumbs and they crumbled a few hands later making her the day's first casualty and first person to take advantage of unlimited reentry available up until the start of Level 11.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
20,000 | -9,700 |