Niagara Falls, Canada's Tomasz Werstler has grabbed hold of the chip lead now, and has no intention of letting it go.
The big hand that saw him push up to the top of the counts started with a raise to 500 and eight players calling. Werstler fired 2,500 at a flop and one player behind raised to 12,000. A third player called, and Werstler shipped for the 18,500 he had behind.
Both players called and Werstler's set of tens was in the lead over a set of sixes and a flush draw. The board bricked out and Werstler suddenly found himself with a close to 60,000-chip stack nearing the end of Level 4.
The second 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 152 entries Friday evening.
That brought the total to 258 so far, putting the event well on its way to obliterating the guarantee, with two flights still to come.
By the time 14 levels of play were through, a total of 24 players pushed through to Day 2 Sunday, where the survivors of all four flights, including 18 from the first one, will combine and play down to a winner.
Kaveh Tehrani (173,500) bagged the chip lead after a strong finish that saw him win a huge pot after getting it all in preflop with big slick versus nines and flushing out on the river in the day's final level. Steve Pisa (167,100), and Frank Gentile (156,700) also bagged big.
Day 1a chip boss Adam Foster (188,400) was still the leader in the clubhouse.
The third starting flight goes off at 10 a.m. Saturday morning and there is a fourth set for 6 p.m. local time as well. Stay tuned to PokerNews as the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam continues.