The first of four starting flights in the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam Event #2: $200 No-Limit Hold'em with a $50,000 guarantee drew 106 entries on Friday.
By the time 14 levels of play were through, a total of 18 players pushed on to Day 2 Sunday, where the field will combine and play down to a winner.
Adam Foster (188,400) bagged the chip lead finishing the flight on a heater. Jeff White (179,000) also bagged big after running good all day.
The second starting flight will go off at 6 p.m. Friday evening, and there are two more flights set for 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday. Stay tuned to PokerNews as the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam continues.
Jeff White managed to get one player to commit his stack with on a king-high board.
White had pocket aces and was pushing close to 80,000 in chips when Randy Lingenfelter raised it up to 4,500 and he defended his big blind.
The flop came and White checked. Lingenfelter made it 6,000 and White check-raised to 16,000. Lingenfelter called and the turn came the .
White jammed in for around 50,000 having Lingenfelter barely covered. Lingenfelter called off with and needed help versus White's . He got none on the river and as he hit the exit, White moved up to the top of the counts.
Seneca Niagara tournament crusher Todd Saffron has vaulted into the lead now.
One player tried to slow play aces, limping in. Saffron came along for the ride with the , flopped trip sixes and busted him.
Not too long after another player tried to punish a few limpers, jamming the for 11,000. Saffron had two tens, looked him up, and took him out after a board of bricks.
Brampton, Ontario, Canada's Timmy Mohammed has vaulted into the Level 6 chip lead.
The big hand that got him there was a three-way all-in pot that saw him get it in with a set of sevens versus a combo draw and a third hand that was never revealed.
Mohammed's set held, helping him become the first player past the 50,000-chip post.
The 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam continues today with the first of four starting flights in The $50,000 Guaranteed Event #2 $200 No-Limit Hold'em beginning at 10 a.m. local time in Niagara Falls.
The event allows for registration and unlimited reentry up until the start of Level 9. Plus, players can do the same for any and all subsequent flights even if they bag up, carrying their best stack forward to Day 2 Sunday where the field will play down to a winner.
Players will begin with 15,000-chip stacks and the levels will be 30 minutes in length. Each starting flight will play the first 14 levels or until 12 percent of the field remains.
The Niagara Falls Poker Room has a long history of smashing the guarantee in these multi-starting-flight unlimited-reentry events and this one should be no different as the best players from the Western New York area and beyond are expected to turn up in droves over the next two days. The second starting flight goes off at 6 p.m. Friday evening and there are two more flights Saturday.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand from start to finish and you can follow all the action right here in this space.
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on a king-high board. 
and White checked. Lingenfelter made it 6,000 and White check-raised to 16,000. Lingenfelter called and the turn came the 
. 
and needed help versus White's 
river and as he hit the exit, White moved up to the top of the counts.
, flopped trip sixes and busted him.
