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Niagara Falls, Canada's Carl Trasmundi flopped a set of tens and check-called a flop bet.
He check-raised a turn bet, and when the aggressor shoved, he got it in. Turned out he'd cracked aces, and after busting that opponent for a full stack, he now sits among the Level 3 leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
63,000
63,000
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63,000 |
Local demigod Mike "The Mayor" Rellinger has talking chips now, sitting on over 70,000 and the chip lead heading into the first break of the day.
Usually, that means a barrage of thinly veiled insults coming from Rellinger, as he often rides the line between friendly banter and the kind of chatter that can get a player a penalty. Today, it's all fun and games, as he's telling old war stories about Bills games from a bygone era while stacking chips.
Turn cards have been particularly kind to Rellinger throughout the early levels, as he got outflopped by ace-king holding queens, but turned a set, then turned a straight after flopping an open-ender, to drag two of the biggest pots he's played so far.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
72,000 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Carm Deciantis has built a big Level 4 stack thanks to one huge hand.
She got it all in three-ways with the 
on a 
board to the turn against 
and 
.
Deciantis did more than just hold on the river as well, filling up when the showed up. She's got more than 70,000 now and just heating up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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72,000 |
2015 Summer Slam Main Event Day 1a chip leader Jeffery Hobrecker bet 900 into an 
flop, but could not shake Julie Billiteri or Kevin Reyes.
Reyes checked the 
turn, and after Hobrecker bet another 2,700, and Billiteri folded, he called.
Finally, on the 
river, Reyes checked again. Hobrecker fired another 7,000 at it and Reyes finally relented.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
38,500 | |
|
13,000
-18,000
|
-18,000 |
Thomas Mader got down to 10,000 in the early going.
A series of good fortune and big hands later and he's now risen to a spot at the top of the counts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
85,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Seneca Niagara standout Jason Nablo is a factor in almost every tournament he plays here. As a result, his name appears on the pages of PokerNews on a regular basis.
Lately, however, it has been for all the wrong reasons, as Nablo pointed out the other night, we always seem to catch his falls from grace, rather than his rises to glory.
Today we buck the trend, as Nablo was a part of a wave of late registrants tucked into tables at the back of the room and is already climbing the counts. He flopped a set of nines, turned nines full of deuces, and got paid off the whole way, including a 9,000-chip river bet.
Nablo's sitting on over 50,000 now and counting.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
52,000 |
Julie Billiteri has 30,000 chips again. But not because she ran it back up after getting short early.
She flopped top two versus a straight, finding herself on the wrong end of a cooler for the rest of her chips on her first bullet today. But since she won two seats in $90 satellites coming in, Billiteri fired a second one moments ago.
She drew the same table again, so a chance at revenge and redemption for the fiery Billiteri is in the offing as well.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
30,000
17,000
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17,000 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
