With the registration and re-entry period now officially closed, we can confirm this second of four flights for this event drew a total of 160 entries. Although a healthy percentage of those may have been Andy Spears re-entries. Seriously.
All kidding aside, the event has now drawn a total of 285 entries, leaving it under 100 entries short of matching the guarantee with another two flights still to come Saturday. This is quickly turning out to be one of those no-sweat guarantee sweats.
In a clash of Seneca Niagara titans featuring a classic showdown, Blake Napierala and Veerab Zakarian have swapped spots on the leaderboard.
Napierala got his 34,000 in with big slick versus Zakarian's jacks and spiked an ace to double through. Zakarian's the one under 40,000 now, as Napierala looks to right the wrongs of a late meltdown in the day's first flight.
Andy Snover has suddenly vaulted over 200,000 and into the chip lead after a massive hand with Marc Bellis.
It was three handed when Snover fired 35,000 into a flop. Bellis responded by shipping it all in for over 100,000 and after the third player folded, Snover called for a count.
Before the dealer had the chance to do it, Snover spoke up.
"F$#@ it, I call," he said, turning over the for top pair, the open-ended redraw and a spade blocker. Bellis had a few outs to the nuts and more holding the , but he whiffed on a run out, handing his entire stack and the chip lead to the man who calls himself 'Asian' Andy.
Andy Snover got it up around 400,000 for a minute, but it was only a minute.
He took a bit hit getting it in open ended and missing to drop back to 220,000. He still led, but then things really took a turn for the worse. Stover doubled up Anne Jones a minute ago to dip to 160,000. Now that lead is rather tenuous.
Here's a look at the rest of the current leaders. It's level 12 and there are 43 left. They'll play to the end of 14 levels, unless they get down to 20 players remaining first.
Michelle Caldwell joins the chip counts closer to Stover's lead than anyone else in the room.
Mark Nowak flopped a set of tens, and when his heads-up opponent shoved big slick for 100,000, he made the obvious call.
He had that 100,000 just barely covered, and with no surprises on the turn or river, he scored the knockout to vault into the chip lead.
In the meantime, Canadian Matt Brunskole stands out as the biggest threat to Nowak's lead right now. He's peaking at 170,000, making anyone who may have bet on him to bag the lead a happy camper.
Brunskole has a shot at it. No offense to Nowak or anybody else, but come on Brunskole! Baby needs a new pair of shoes!
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flop. Bellis responded by shipping it all in for over 100,000 and after the third player folded, Snover called for a count.
for top pair, the open-ended redraw and a spade blocker. Bellis had a few outs to the nuts and more holding the 
, but he whiffed on a 
run out, handing his entire stack and the chip lead to the man who calls himself 'Asian' Andy.
