Main Event
Day 3 Started
Main Event
Day 3 Started
A 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event champion will be crowned inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino today.
Nine poker players will vie for the title and the $58,608 first-place prize it comes with when the final table kicks off at 12 p.m. local time in Niagara Falls, NY. Plus, the winner's photo will also grace the cover of an upcoming issue of CardPlayer Magazine.
The event's two starting flights drew 271 entries and reentries creating a $239,212 prize pool. The lion's share of that cash will be distributed to the finalists today. In fact, the top six will all earn over $10,000 and all the players are guaranteed at least $5,382.
They played from 57 starting flight survivors, past the 27-player money bubble, and down to the final nine on Sunday, with Ernie Guardarramas taking hold of the chip lead. Here's how the final table will look when things get started:
Seat | Player | Chips |
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1 | Bradley Girdler | 213,000 |
2 | Ernie Guardarramas | 1,855,000 |
3 | Jason Sagle | 1,290,000 |
4 | Mark Roberts | 1,048,000 |
5 | Tommy Tomasello | 746,000 |
6 | Guy Klass | 139,000 |
7 | Rob Bourkney | 435,000 |
8 | Hassan Jamil | 1,297,000 |
9 | Lou Procopio | 1,110,000 |
2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic prelim winner Bradley Girdler and 2017 Western New York Poker Challenge Main Event champion Guy Klass are the shortest stacks coming in, but anything can happen at a poker table, and these two are certainly hoping it does.
Local standout Mark Roberts has been using the Seneca poker room as his personal ATM for years and starts play within a double up of the lead. Jason Sagle, Hassan Jamil, and Lou Procopio are all in a similar position as well, each with more than one million in chips.
Cleveland, OH's Tommy Tomasello and local short stack ninja Rob Bourkney round out the final nine after miraculously surviving several near tournament death experiences throughout Day 2.
Play will kick off with blinds at 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000-chip ante and there is bound to be heavy action right from the start.
Keep it locked on PokerNews to see who can crawl through the poker carnage and come out 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event champion on the other side.
Level: 24
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 3,000
Short stack Guy Klass got the triple up he needed, getting it in with the three ways versus Mark Roberts and Hassan Jamil.
Jamil isolated Klass with two tens, betting a flop of undercards, but Klass hit the turn and river to triple his way back into it.
Bradley Girdler got it in versus Ernie Guardarramas with the dominating over and held. Then, Rob Bourkney cracked Tommy Tomasello's queens making a straight out of the .
Right out of the gate, the short stacks have survived every all in and some are not short anymore.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ernie Guardarramas | 1,750,000 | -105,000 |
Hassan Jamil | 1,200,000 | -97,000 |
Mark Roberts | 950,000 | -98,000 |
Rob Bourkney | 660,000 | 225,000 |
Bradley Girdler | 550,000 | 337,000 |
Guy Klass | 400,000 | 261,000 |
Tommy Tomasello | 200,000 | -546,000 |
Cleveland, OH's Tommy Tomasello shoved the and Jason Sagle made a reluctant call with the .
Sagle's pair was slightly ahead and stayed there on the board. Tomasello took ninth becoming the first player to bust today.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jason Sagle | 1,490,000 | 200,000 |
Tommy Tomasello | Busted |
Ernie Guardarramas hasn't won a single contested pot yet today. As a result, Canadian Jason Sagle has taken the lead, with Rochester, NY's Hassan Jamil closely in tow.
Here's the updated chip counts headed into Level 25:
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jason Sagle | 1,880,000 | 390,000 |
Hassan Jamil | 1,650,000 | 450,000 |
Lou Procopio | 1,200,000 | 90,000 |
Ernie Guardarramas | 1,100,000 | -650,000 |
Mark Roberts | 720,000 | -230,000 |
Rob Bourkney | 650,000 | -10,000 |
Bradley Girdler | 500,000 | -50,000 |
Guy Klass | 410,000 | 10,000 |
Level: 25
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 4,000
Ernie Guardarramas has climbed back near the top of the counts by winning the battle of the blinds.
First he bet 400,000 into a 400,000-chip pot on a board to push newly minted chip leader Jason Sagle off a small versus big blind pot. Then, in another battle of the blinds, he called Bradley Girdler's small blind bet, and when Girlder continued on a flop with two queens, he came over the top with a big raise.
Girdler folded and here comes Guardarramas once again.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jason Sagle | 1,700,000 | -180,000 |
Ernie Guardarramas | 1,600,000 | 500,000 |
Bradley Girdler | 400,000 | -100,000 |
North Collins, NY's own Rob Bourkney held on as long as he could with the short stack. Then he got it in preflop with the versus Ernie Guardarramas' dominating .
Guardarramas held on a board to move back into the chip lead and send Bourkney home early.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ernie Guardarramas | 1,800,000 | 200,000 |
Rob Bourkney | Busted |