$600 Main Event | 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam

07-31-2016 09:07 UTC-4

The Final Day of the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam Main Event Starts Now!

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On an overcast and rainy summer Sunday in Niagara Falls, 86 poker players will descend upon the Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino with dreams of capturing one of the most hotly contested poker titles in Western New York and the $59,248 first-place prize that comes with it.

The final day of the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam $600 Main Event kicks off at 11 a.m. local time and promises to be a dramatic one, as the survivors from two starting flights Friday and Saturday will combine for the first time, play past a 46-player money bubble, down to a final table, and ultimately until a 2016 Summer Slam champion is crowned.

After a massive hand in the late-going Friday that saw him flop quad queens and crack aces, Joseph Elia will come in with the chip lead, as the only player over 400,000.

Spicy $90 satellite qualifier Julie Billiteri has just below that much after she went from 20,000 to 396,000 in the last hour on Friday, and will come into play as hot as a local Buffalo chicken wing.

Day 1b leaders Tom Taylor and Bill Hardy are also within a few chips of Billiteri, while My Stack App user Sammy Iraci, Michigan's Linda Hackney, Michael Ferrer, David Paluch, and local legend Jason Nablo round out the group over 300,000 at this point. Local big game hunter Chris Meyers sits just below there.

There's also a host of Seneca Niagara regulars in the pack, sitting within striking distance, and with blinds starting at 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante, 40 players off the money out of the gate today, there's a ton of poker to be played and it's anybody's title to win.

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand from the call to shuffle up and deal until the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam Main Event title is won, so just sit back and enjoy, all the final day action you can handle is coming at you, right here, right now.

Tags: Bill Hardy Chris Meyers David Paluch Jason Nablo Joseph Elia Julie Billiteri Linda Hackney Michael Ferrer Sammy Iraci Tom Taylor

07-31-2016 19:47 UTC-4

Shane Pierce Eliminated in 10th Place ($4,412)

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Level 26 : 20,000/40,000, 4,000 ante

Shane Pierce made it 90,000 to go and Jason Nablo and Julie Billiteri both called. Shawn Edinger also called in the small blind and they went four-ways to a flop.

It checked to Nablo and he bet 150,000, Billiteri and Edinger called before Pierce pushed in for around 500,000 total.

It folded to Edinger and he called with the flush draw. Pierce had the set, but the turn made Edinger a flush. The river did not pair the board and Pierce Exited 10th.

Following Pierce's elimination, the table went on a 45-minute dinner break. Play will resume at approximately 8:30 p.m. local time

Player	Chips	Progress
Shawn Edinger	1,800,000 1,050,000	1,050,000
Shane Pierce	Busted

Tags: Jason Nablo Julie Billiteri Shane Pierce Shawn Edinger

07-31-2016 21:24 UTC-4

Jason Kanel Eliminated in 9th Place ($5,546)

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Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante

Jason Kanel open-shipped for around 500,000 and Russ Campanella looked him up with the .

Kanlel was in big trouble with the , and although Campanella improved to a set on the flop, Kanel picked up outs to a flush. Neither the turn or river helped and Kanel took ninth.

Player	Chips	Progress
Russ Campanella	2,300,000 600,000	600,000
Jason Kanel	Busted

Tags: Jason Kanel Russ Campanella

07-31-2016 22:19 UTC-4

Julie Billiteri Eliminated in 8th Place ($6,807)

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Level 29 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante

Julie Billiteri open-shoved 700,000 and Chris Harker made the call with the .

Billiteri had the and missed the board, saying goodbye in seventh. After an entertaining an impressive performance, Billiteri leaves leading the event in ROI after getting in through a $90 satellite.