2016 Western New York Poker Challenge

$1,000 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2016 Western New York Poker Challenge

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
97
Prize
$52,768
Event Info
Buy-in
$910
Prize Pool
$215,379
Entries
244
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

PokerNews Podcast Episode #370: Keeping It One-Hunned at the Monster WPT TOC

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Donnie "DP" Peters and Rich Ryan are in Florida at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for the Monster WPT Tournament of Champions, and they are keeping it hunned.

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Tags: PokerNews PodcastRich RyanDonnie Peters

Break!

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante
2016 WNYPC
2016 WNYPC

The players have been sent off on a 15-minute break with the first eight of the day's 15 levels now behind them. In the meantime, the tournament staff will take the time to color up and remove the 25-denomination green chips.

Play will resume at approximately 5 p.m. local time with two more 40-minute levels to play before the dinner break.

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

On The Range

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante
Jason Stockfish
Jason Stockfish

Jason Stockfish has moved into a dead heat with Jim Burkett for the lead now, thanks to one opponent who refused to believe his five-betting range preflop is two aces and the other two aces.

This opponent beat him to the pot with a call for his tournament life holding big slick. No surprises on the board left Stockfish with 125,000 and counting.

Player Chips Progress
Jason Stockfish us
Jason Stockfish
125,000
55,000
55,000

Tags: Jason Stockfish

Long Dae; Short Dae

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante
Cameron Bartolotta
Cameron Bartolotta

It was a short day for David "Dae Dae" Battaglia, who had some long ones finishing fourth in the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event this past November.

He lost half his stack in the first half of the day, then shipped the rest in with {a-}{q-}, ran into Cameron Bartolotta's pocket sevens, and failed to improve.

Bartolotta's now peaking at 55,000 and looking to go on a heater in the second half of the day.

Player Chips Progress
Cameron Bartolotta
Cameron Bartolotta
55,000
-2,600
-2,600
David Battaglia us
David Battaglia
Busted

Tags: Cameron BartolottaDavid Battaglia

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

The Return of Rob Bourkney

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Rob Bourkney
Rob Bourkney

Rob Bourkney was having a bad day. He couldn't get anything going early, and was left wondering why as his stack bled away.

Eventually he busted out, but decided to reenter. On his first hand back in play, he got priced into a three-bet pot three-handed with fives, flopped a set and tripled up versus pocket aces and a top two pair.

Now Bourkney is sitting among the bigger stacks in the room into the final level of play before dinner and looking to make this bullet count.

Player Chips Progress
Rob Bourkney us
Rob Bourkney
90,000

Tags: Rob Bourkney

Dellaria Does It

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Frank Dellaria
Frank Dellaria

Frank Dellaria is developing quite a reputation, and the lead.

First, he used the {8-Clubs}{9-Clubs} to make a runner-runner flush, cracking a set of queens.

Then, he snap-called a raise and a shove with the {a-}{6-}, getting there against {a-}{k-} to chop a pot with a shorty holding the same hand.

Heading into the last half of the level before the dinner break, Dellaria's now on top.

Player Chips Progress
Frank Dellaria us
Frank Dellaria
130,000
45,000
45,000

Tags: Frank Dellaria

The Dinner Bell Chimes

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
2016 WNYPC
2016 WNYPC

With the end of the 10th level upon them, the players have been sent off on a 45-minute dinner break.

When they return to play the last five levels of the night at approximately 7:10 p.m., the registration and reentry period will officially close.

The board currently reads 136 entries with 75 players remaining. Below you will find chip counts for the current leaders with Jim Burkett's name on top as the only player over 200,000 heading into the break.

Player Chips Progress
Jim Burkett
Jim Burkett
212,000
87,000
87,000
Jason Stockfish us
Jason Stockfish
150,000
25,000
25,000
Frank Dellaria us
Frank Dellaria
135,000
5,000
5,000
Joe Ciffa us
Joe Ciffa
110,000
Mike Rellinger us
Mike Rellinger
105,000
45,000
45,000
Rob Bourkney us
Rob Bourkney
95,000
5,000
5,000
Nick Walker us
Nick Walker
95,000
30,000
30,000
Dennis Durante us
Dennis Durante
82,000
21,550
21,550
Dan Bierworth
Dan Bierworth
80,000
-15,000
-15,000
Kurtis Boutelle us
Kurtis Boutelle
72,000
16,000
16,000
Kristan Mackiewicz us
Kristan Mackiewicz
62,000
43,000
43,000
Cameron Bartolotta
Cameron Bartolotta
57,000
2,000
2,000
Evan Jarvis us
Evan Jarvis
56,000
3,500
3,500
Blake Napierala us
Blake Napierala
56,000
-7,000
-7,000
Rick Motzer
Rick Motzer
49,000
-1,000
-1,000
Nick Alafogiannis
Nick Alafogiannis
45,000
-55,000
-55,000
Bruce Pace us
Bruce Pace
40,000
10,000
10,000
Dennis Fleig us
Dennis Fleig
37,000
-26,000
-26,000
James Miller us
James Miller
35,000
-26,000
-26,000
Chris Gras us
Chris Gras
22,000
-8,000
-8,000
Todd Saffron us
Todd Saffron
Busted
Thomas Mackenzie
Thomas Mackenzie
Busted
Max Droege
Max Droege
Busted
Art Demmerley us
Art Demmerley
Busted
Marcy Jo Phillips us
Marcy Jo Phillips
Busted

Tags: Jim Burkett

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 200