$300 No Limit Hold'em | 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic

11-05-2017 23:15 UTC

The Set Up

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Level 23 : 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante

Another massive setup has sent another perennial Seneca title contender soaring up the leaderboard.

They're down to 14 and Alex Visbisky has 1.3 million after David Luppino ran kings into his aces all in preflop.

Thanks to cooler after cooler from the Niagara Falls Poker Room dealers over the past hour, the remaining field is shrinking super fast. The final table is now in site just a few minutes in to Level 23.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Visbisky	1,300,000	550,000
David Luppino	Busted

Level: 23

Blinds: 12,000/24,000

Ante: 3,000

11-05-2017 22:57 UTC

The Local Legend

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Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Look out now! The original local legend is moving on up to the East Side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky, and is sitting over the one-million mark with a cheese eating grin on his face.

Jason Nablo took all of Brian Dugan's 600,000-chip stack over two hands. In the first, he won a race, four-bet jamming ace-king into Dugan's queens. An ace on the flop. Zero sweat.

Then, Nablo had the dominating ace-jack to Dugan's ace-ten all in preflop for the rest. He held.

Dugan's out and Nablo joins Matt Brunskole and Blake Napierala in the millionaire boys club heading towards the end of Level 22 with 17 left.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Nablo	1,100,000	725,000
Brian Dugan	Busted

Level: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

11-05-2017 22:44 UTC

Blake Again!

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Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Paul Zakamarko opened from middle position with about 300,000 behind. When it got to chip leader Brian Healy in the small blind, he pushed all in.

Blake Napierala had two black aces in the big blind and 880,000 in chips. He called! Zakamarko mucked and Healy had the .

Blake's cruised to the massive double up on a board that even gave him the salt-in-the-wound set.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but Blake Napierala is now leading after picking up aces in the dream spot for all the chips.

Healy is still in with a healthy 800,000 and they're dropping like flies around here, down to 18 and at the final two tables.

Player	Chips	Progress
Blake Napierala	1,700,000	875,000
Brian Healy	800,000	-550,000

Level: 21

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

11-05-2017 22:34 UTC

The Final Three Tables (full)

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Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

They are down to 23 are three tables and Brian Healy and Matt Brunskole are in a dead-heat for the lead. Plus, there's a host of local heroes hanging around.

Here's how the stacks look smack in the middle of Level 21 at 8,000/16,000 blinds:

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Healy	1,350,000
Matt Brunskole	1,300,000
Matt Marcinkiewicz	870,000
Blake Napierala	825,000
Alex Visbisky	750,000
Mike Shavensky	620,000
Brian Dugan	600,000
Chris Damick	550,000
Tim Glab	510,000
Kevin Wright	440,000
Deon Thomas	375,000
Jason Nablo	375,000
Glenn Waldron	370,000	370,000
Richard Arnone	350,000	350,000
Eric Thibodeau	350,000	-404,000
Guy Klass	320,000
Kenneth Wasik	300,000
Leo Kaplin	290,000
Paul Zakamarko	250,000
Ian Tuason	220,000
Lue Huang	220,000
Brian Ballentine	220,000
Paul Bitterman	200,000	200,000

11-05-2017 21:13 UTC

Hero To Zero

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Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

The day started out great for chip leader Alex Avdelopoulos. He took Sahar Khajavi's top-ten stack making a full house against her aces to add to his lead. Things went decidedly downhill from there.

Minutes ago, the downswing ended at the bottom when he got in 250,000 chips preflop with versus Brian Dugan's jacks.

The jacks held and while the start-of-the-chip leader is out, Dugan joins the leaders with 30 players remaining, closing in on the second break of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Dugan	750,000	250,000
Alex Avdelopoulos	Busted

11-05-2017 21:03 UTC

Flipping The Script

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Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Twenty minutes ago Chris Damick could be heard lamenting his luck, claiming all his big hands were already behind him.

Meanwhile, Scott Hosbach has been on a tear all day long, moving in the other direction on the leaderboard.

Now, the script has suddenly flipped. Hosbach managed to bluff off heaps into Damick's aces full and while Hosbach's now out, Damick is back near the top of the counts again.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Damick	500,000	160,000
Scott Hosbach	Busted

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 2,000