$120 No Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Started
$120 No Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Started
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss something.
This, of course, would have to include PokerNews' coverage of the 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic. It continues this evening live from the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino with a single-day $10,000 Guaranteed $120 No Limit Hold'em re-entry event.
It's hot buttered popcorn, but you better get it while it's hot and get it while it's buttered, because this one will go as fast as it comes.
With 20-minute levels, 10,000-chip starting stacks, a structure designed to draw big numbers quick, and crown a champion almost as quickly, it's a tournament that's going to go off at breakneck speed.
Registration and re-entry is available until the start of the tenth level, so expect the re-entry bell ringing on the regular, helping create a pretty big field, and prize pool, for a Monday.
You can also expect the tournament to be filled with the best poker players in Western New York. There's not too many around here willing pass up the opportunity for a slice of a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool at an affordable buy-in level of just $120.
Keep it locked right here on PokerNews as we follow all the turbo-charged action from the call to shuffle up and deal until the next 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic title holder is crowned.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
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Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
The following list of players have run hotter than an August night here before. There's definitely a chance they can warm up it here again in November.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Daniel Lopez | 30,000 | |
Julie Billiteri | 10,000 | |
Mark Roberts | 10,000 | |
Steve Roberts | 10,000 | |
Mark Nowak | 10,000 | |
Brian Bowen | 10,000 | |
Joe Ciffa | 10,000 | |
Marcy Jo Phillips | 10,000 | |
Rayshawn Smalls | 10,000 | |
Paula Rasmussen | 10,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Daniel Lopez is off to a blazing hot start.
He picked up aces to win a big pot. Then, the very next hand, Joe Ciffa got the rockets and Lopez made a straight flush to crack them and send Ciffa over to the cage to re-enter.
Speaking of re-entry, there's been more than a few in the first three levels here. Plus, a steady line at registration. The board reads 90 entries so far, and with registration and re-entry available through the first nine levels, there will be zero sweat on the $10,000 Guarantee.
Lopez has the early lead headed into Level 4, where the antes start.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Seneca prelim killer Alicia LaPorte Pachla picked up two kings and took them to the streets with early leader Daniel Lopez.
After a series of raises, Pachla got it all in and Lopez doubled her up with sixes. It'll now be the two of them leading going into Level 5.
Hopes are high for all as the board now reads 104 entries and the $10,000 guarantee is officially an afterthought. Big money. No whammies.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alicia LaPorte Pachla | 20,000 | |
Daniel Lopez | 20,000 | -10,000 |