2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam

$600 Main Event
Day: 1a
1a1b2
Event Info
2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
Final Results
Winner
Prize
$26,500
Event Info
Buy-in
$550
Prize Pool
$252,106
Total Entries
475
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 475
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Ody "Spell Check" Alafogiannis Leads!

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante
Ody Alafogiannis
Ody Alafogiannis

Toronto, Canada's Ody Alafogiannis just became the first player past the 100,000-chip mark here in the 2016 Summer Slam Main Event.

The big hand that vaulted him up the leaderboard started when he looked down at the {j-Spades}{7-Spades}. He called a bet on a {j-}{2-Spades}{3-} flop, then another when the {3-Spades} turn gave him two pair and a big draw.

Finally, Alafogiannis got it all in on the {6-Spades} river, and his flush was good versus an opponent's {a-}{3-}.

He also picked up pocket aces twice on the way to emerging as the first six-figure stack in the room.

"They held," He laughed. "That helps."

Tags: Ody Alafogiannis

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Bang Bang Billiteri

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
Julie Billiteri
Julie Billiteri

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.

Tags: Julie Billiteri

Nablo In, Up

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
Jason Nablo
Jason Nablo

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.

Tags: Jason Nablo

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

Looks Like We Made It

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante
Thomas Mader
Thomas Mader

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.

Tags: Thomas Mader

Hobrecker Rising

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

2015 Summer Slam Main Event Day 1a chip leader Jeffery Hobrecker bet 900 into an {8-Diamonds}{9-Spades}{7-Spades} flop, but could not shake Julie Billiteri or Kevin Reyes.

Reyes checked the {9-Clubs} turn, and after Hobrecker bet another 2,700, and Billiteri folded, he called.

Finally, on the {8-Hearts} river, Reyes checked again. Hobrecker fired another 7,000 at it and Reyes finally relented.

Tags: Jeffery HobreckerKevin ReyesJulie Billiteri

Sign of the Times

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante
Carm Deciantis
Carm Deciantis

Carm Deciantis has built a big Level 4 stack thanks to one huge hand.

She got it all in three-ways with the {5-}{6-} on a {q-}{6-}{k-}{6-} board to the turn against {a-}{k-} and {q-}{j-}.

Deciantis did more than just hold on the river as well, filling up when the {5-} showed up. She's got more than 70,000 now and just heating up.

Tags: Carm Deciantis

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

Rellinger Ruling The Roost

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Mike Rellinger
Mike Rellinger

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.

Tags: Mike Rellinger