$600 Main Event
Day 2 Started
2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$600 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
Buy-in
$550
Prize Pool
$252,106
Entries
475
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
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.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
The Rich Get Richer
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Joseph Elia started Day 2 as hot as he ended the first starting flight.
He picked up kings over queens to pick off one 65,000-chip shorty and is now closing in on 500,000.
In the meantime, Brett Collson is peaking on 220,000 now after check-raising the flop, then turning the nut-flush and schooling Alicia LaPorte Pachla in a pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
485,000 | 64,500 |
|
220,000 | 103,000 |
Graziano Gets There
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Newton Graziano just doubled up the hard way, cracking Sean Bartlett's 
.
They got it in on the turn of a 
board with Graziano holding 
and at risk. The 
on the river saved Graziano's tournament life and he's now got a threatening stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
280,000 | 126,000 |
|
60,000 | -138,500 |
Bodnar Gets The Upgrade
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Peter Bodnar made it 10,000, Chris Gaddi bumped it to 35,000, and Bodnar four-bet to 90,000.
Gaddi shoved in with the bigger stack and Bodnar called off with the 
. Gaddi had 
and aces held on a 
run out to give Bodnar a stack among the leaders, and leave Gaddi short.
Gaddi lost most of the rest of his chips immediately after, then ran into both aces and kings to go broke.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
370,000 | 215,500 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Birss Cools Doyle, Gets Gaddi
Level 17
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
It was Kevin Birss who got the last of Chris Gaddi's chips. But the hand was significant for more than just that.
Birss ultimately had aces versus Brendan Doyle's kings and Gaddi's rags all in preflop, doubling through Doyle to move up to a spot among the leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
400,000 | 282,000 |
|
30,000 | -123,000 |
Billiteri Leads!
Level 17
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
With Joseph Elia suddenly trending downwards, Julie Billiteri has moved into the chip lead.
There was a raise and Billiteri called in position before Elia defended his big blind.
Elia led the 
flop for 15,000 and both players called. The turn came the 
and it checked to Billiteri. She bet 48,000 and only Elia called.
They both checked the 
river and Billiteri showed to take it down, moving up to 465,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
465,000 | 69,000 |
|
|
295,000 | -190,000 |
The Legend Continues
Level 17
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Allison Schultz made it 14,000 and Steven Yanus called behind before the legendary Dan Wagner shipped it in for 56,000.
Schultz came over the top all in with the and Yanus called with the .
Wagner had the 
and both his legend and stack grew after a 
board ensured the triple up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
185,000 | 81,500 |
|
|
120,000 | -91,500 |
|
100,000 | -12,000 |