Level: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Level: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
The 13 players remaining have been sent off on a 45-minute dinner break.
The Niagara Falls Poker Room is taking the entire group to Koi, the authentic Asian cuisine restaurant here at Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino, and play will resume at approximately 6:30 p.m. local time.
Start-of-day chip leader Jeffrey Hobrecker has run into the machine Veerab Zarkanian has suddenly become.
Hobrecker went broke shoving the into Zarkanian's dominating . A queen on the board spelled the end of another good run for Hobrecker.
Zarkanian is quickly closing in on two million chips now and running away with this thing.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Veerab Zakarian
|
1,920,000 | 320,000 |
Jeffrey Hobrecker | Busted |
Mark Allott and Paul McLean got embroiled in a preflop raising war that saw MClean ultimately jam in for around 200,000 with the .
Allott called it of with two tens and held through a scary looking board to send McLean home early and rise up the counts.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mark Allott | 720,000 | 230,000 |
Paul McLean | Busted |
Alex Rivera went broke running ace-queen into Chris Molica's ace-king.
Then, over on the other table, Howie Leung jammed jacks and 400,000 over a raise with three callers. Veerab Zarkanian had kings, called, and held to bust Leung 17th and snatch the chip lead now into Level 22.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Veerab Zakarian
|
1,600,000 | 400,000 |
Chris Molica
|
550,000 | 247,000 |
Alex Rivera | Busted | |
Howie Leung | Busted |
Level: 22
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
Steve Calvaneso got short and ran a weak ace into deuces.
He couldn't pair up and just busted 19th. They are redrawing for seats at the final two tables now.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Steve Calvaneso | Busted |
Tight play has ruled the day 19-handed.
When they lose one more player they will redraw for seats at the final two tables and no one appears to want to miss that golden opportunity.
The only real action over the past 20 minute came when Dan Wagner got miffed with Jeffrey Hobrecker for what he perceived to be excessive tanking.
"Sorry my brain doesn't work as quick as yours, " was Hobrecker's response.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Dan Wagner | 1,350,000 | 100,000 |
Veerab Zakarian
|
1,200,000 | 350,000 |
Joseph Elhage | 950,000 | -290,000 |
Sean Gomez | 645,000 | 313,500 |
Mark Allott | 490,000 | 243,500 |
Paul McLean | 475,000 | 25,000 |
Brian Bowen | 450,000 | -50,000 |
David Olshan | 430,000 | 50,000 |
Cameron Bartolotta | 417,000 | 16,000 |
Peter Bogulski | 360,000 | 55,000 |
Howie Leung | 344,000 | |
Chris Molica
|
303,000 | -392,000 |
Jay Clark | 300,000 | 220,000 |
Jeffrey Hobrecker | 260,000 | -230,000 |
Alex Rivera | 250,000 | 8,000 |
Nicholas Potwora | 220,000 | -280,000 |
Chris Barton | 220,000 | 83,000 |
Matt Marcinkiewicz | 130,000 | 47,000 |
Steve Calvaneso | 110,000 | -35,500 |
Robert Petronio open jammed early with big slick and twenty bigs.
Brian Bowen woke up with the in the big blind and called. A jack in the window of a run out sent Petronio home 21st.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Brian Bowen | 500,000 | 60,000 |
Robert Petronio | Busted |