$600 Main Event
Day 1a Started
2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$600 Main Event
Day: 1a
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 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam Main Event Starts Now!
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The first of two starting flights for the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam $100,000 Guaranteed $600 Main Event will kick off at 11 a.m. local time on Friday, just blocks from the Falls.
Last year Toronto, Canada's William Liang crossed the bridge, took down the title and a $61,535 first-place prize, getting the best of a 504-entry field that absolutely crushed the event's guarantee.
Weeks of satellite qualifiers and another eight days of prelims leading up to this Main Event should ensure the guarantee is exceeded again this summer, as the popularity of poker continues to grow in the Western New York area and beyond.
Players will start the event with 30,000-chip stacks and plans to play through 15 levels of 40-minutes each. Registration and unlimited reentry is available until the start of Level 11, and players will get another kick at the can tomorrow, even if they bag up chips tonight, carrying their best stack forward to the final day Sunday.
There will be a 45-minute dinner break at the end of Level 10, where the registration and reentry period remains open. The $600 price-point should make for a ton of action and plenty of reentries.
As always, the area's best and brightest are expected turn up for this one, and PokerNews will be on hand to catch all the ups and downs. Strap in, the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam $100,000 Guaranteed $600 Main Event starts now.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
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Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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The Regular Crowd Shuffles In
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The Niagara Falls Poker Room is buzzing this morning with the start of the Main Event.
A bumper crop of regs are in the field already, including local cash grinder Julie Billiteri, who picked up not one, but two seats through two of the many $90 satellites running in the weeks leading up to today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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31,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 |
Like A Bull in a China Shop
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Steve Bullard is having a solid Summer Slam so far, running deep in just about every event he's played.
Today, he's off to another hot start, flopping two pair, queens and jacks, before filling up on the river. He got paid off big time and has jumped out to the Level 1 chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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47,000 | 17,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Come On Seven!
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
There was an early position raise to 2,200 that got two callers with Jeff White making it three.
One player bet 5,000 on the 
flop and White jammed in for a full stack with the 
. After the original raiser folded aces, the post-flop bettor called it off with the 
.
White binked a seven on the river to straighten up and fly right to the top of the counts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
63,000 |
On A Boat
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Toronto, Canada's Amin Akalaghi is of to a fiery hot start today.
He flopped two pair, jacks and tens, and then turned a full house to drag a big early pot. A couple more hands went his way and he earned what amounted to an early double up and a spot among the leaders now, headed into Level 3.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0