Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
2016 Western New York Poker Challenge
$1,000 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 Western New York Poker Challenge
Buy-in
$910
Prize Pool
$215,379
Entries
244
Level
27
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
The Dinner Bell Rings
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Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
With the end of Level 10 now upon them, the players have been sent off on a 45-minute dinner break.
The buffet will surely be a little tastier for Dan Wagner than most, he spent the last hand before the break calling a three-barrel bluff with top pair to push up to 120,000 and a spot among the leaders.
Pat Tighe's probably liking things as well, having moved into the chip lead now.
The rest of the chip leaders' updated counts can be found below. Play will resume at approximately five minutes after 7 p.m., and when it does, the registration and reentry period will close with five 40-minute levels left to play on the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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170,000 | 91,000 |
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158,000 | 63,000 |
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145,000 | 55,000 |
|
133,000 | 23,000 |
|
128,000 | 3,000 |
|
126,000 | 70,000 |
|
126,000 | -24,000 |
|
120,000 | 74,000 |
|
115,000 | 35,000 |
|
100,000 | |
|
|
95,000 | 19,000 |
|
91,000 | 9,000 |
|
75,000 | 28,700 |
|
70,000 | -22,900 |
|
66,000 | -29,000 |
|
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65,000 | -10,000 |
|
50,000 | |
|
45,000 | 6,600 |
|
30,000 | |
|
25,000 | -30,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Short Goes Long
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Brett Short is suddenly a contender with Maria Parlatore on the ropes and Ronnie D'Grillo out following a massive three-way pot between them.
Parlatore raised jacks preflop and after D'Grillo called with the 
, Short three-bet with two queens. They both called and Short kept firing on a 
flop, eventually getting all of D'Grillo's chips and most of Parlatore's betting every street for value when no bigger card came on the turn or river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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125,000 | |
|
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11,000 | -48,000 |
|
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Busted |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Fleig Flying High
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Top pair has been good to Hamburg, NY's Dennis Fleig.
Fleig, who everybody calls "Batman" due to his affinity for the 1989 Batman film starring Michael Keaton and Batman card protectors, got it in with top pair kings against an ace and a gutterball, holding to move above 60,000.
A little later it was top pair kings again, this time cracking queens. Flieg, who binked a prelim at the 2013 WNYPC, now has 95,000 and is a threat to run deep again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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95,000 |
Morin Moves Up, Stempien Moves Out
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
James Morin blew up in Level 8 and now has the chip lead into Level 9.
"I made a couple of dumb calls and got lucky," he told PokerNews.
One of those apparently included calling it off with top pair versus 'Kid Karma' John Stempien's bottom two and finding trip kings on the river to bust him.
Morin's now on 150,000 and counting.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
150,000 | |
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Busted |
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Break!
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
The players are now on 15-minute break and the tournament staff is coloring up and removing the 25-denomination chips.
There's a New Sherrif in Town
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Bob Kiehl says the nice young lady in Seat 1 kept betting an unconnected 
into him until her entire 40,000-chip stack was in the middle.
He happily played three-streets of bluff catcher with pocket sevens and now has upwards of 80,000 and a spot among the leaders at the half-way-through-the-day mark with 58 of 94 entries remaining.
Registration and reentry is still open until the start of Level 11 and with one more starting day tomorrow, the 2016 Western New York Poker Challenge Main Event appears destined to meet the $200,000 guarantee and then some.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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82,000 | 82,000 |
Parlatore Pipes In
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Maria Parlatore, who admitted at the break to suddenly not feeling very well, has just as suddenly built a decent stack.
Alex Visbisky somehow made quads again to climb above 80,000. Then he gave about 20,000 of that to Parlatore when she got it in preflop with 
against his nines and a third player's queens, finding an ace on the river to triple up.
He's now back to 65,000 and she's just under that.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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59,000 |