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Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic
$1,000 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$264,810
Total Entries
300
Level
27
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 300
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Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Sharman Olshan has moved into the lead here heading into the last level before the dinner break, thanks to her second double knockout of the day.
This time she called one shorty's 13,000-chip shove with two jacks. A third player went all in for 20,000 more behind and Olshan called it off.
She was up against two fives and ace-ten, holding without much of a sweat.
In the meantime, the heavily bearded and multi-talented Matt Marcinkiewicz is on her direct left. He's got 120,000 himself, coming off a second-place finish in the $300 PLO event Thursday, and clearly learning to cope with just two cards instead of four.
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Top local earner Alex Rivera's stack is looking good right now.
He's moved into a dead heat for the chip lead with Michigan's Vinnie Ho, winning a heap of chips without showing down a hand.
Ho stopped by to play after visiting family in Rochester, NY, and in a span of 25 minutes he saw pocket kings, aces and queens, getting value every time, to build up his stack.
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Crowd favorite and top contender Newton Graziano is has moved up over 100,000 chips on his second bullet after finding no luck on the first.
He's been able to bust two players on the way up the leader board this time around and is always threat to run deep in these things, coming off more than one final table appearance here at Seneca in the past 12 months.
In fact, Graziano is currently sitting 20th on the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel All Time Money List and will be looking to add to the $45,689 in earnings he's booked here as the tournament moves forward.
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Bud Salhab had been complaining about not being featured in the coverage here today when he got into a big hand.
The fireworks started when Mike Shavensky checked a 
flop heads up with Salhab, and Salhab led for 3,000. Shavensky check-raised to 8,500 and after a minute in the tank, Salhab called.
The turn came the 
and Shavensky quickly bet 25,000, sliding out all his yellow 5,000-denomination chips. This time Salhab went deeper into the tank, only emerging when Shavensky called the clock on him two and a half minutes later. Salhab shoved for just a tiny bit more and Shavensky snap-called with the 
.
It turned out they had traded outs with Salhab on the thin drawing 
. The river was the 
and as Shavensky moved up across the 100,000-chip mark, Salhab was left with nothing to complain about but the size of his stack.
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Alden, NY Cub Scouts Leader Rick Block has won his fair share of titles here at Seneca Niagara. This event is one of them. He captured the 2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event and is starting a run at a repeat headed into the second break of the day.
He won all of Aaron Olshan's chips getting two streets of value with aces on a paired, then double-paired board, before the rest went in on the river.
Olshan didn't show on the way out the door, Block's on over 70,000 now, and ready to pin himself with the merit badge for courage.
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Jeffrey Hobrecker allegedly cracked John Abraham's aces making two pair on the river for heaps.
That made Hobrecker the first player past the 100,000-chip mark, and seemed to bother Abraham quite a bit.
"Either I'm taking all your chips or your taking mine," Abraham sneered.
"OK, let's battle," Hobrecker replied, throwing down the gauntlet.
