It was Seneca legend on legend as local Budwey Salhab got it in with kings versus Canadian crusher Buck Ramsay and big slick.
Kings held to give Salhab the double in just the first few hands after he sat down.
In the meantime, Ramsay was left with a rebuilding project of a stack, but no one is doubting the multiple Seneca Main Event title holder is capable of running it back up.
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Sending a World Series of Poker bracelet winner home early might be the very best way to vault into the Level 5 chip lead in the 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event.
That's exactly what Colin Phoenix just did. He made the nut flush in an 80,000 chip pot to bust Chris Tryba, winner of the 2012 WSOP $2,500 Mixed Hold'em event.
With registration and reentry still open until after the dinner break, and another starting flight Saturday, we surely haven't seen the last of Tryba, or Phoenix for that matter, who is pushing almost 100,000 headed into Level 6.
Longtime PokerNews Managing Editor Brett Collson has the My Stack run good going.
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Collson knows the deal and has been updating his stack since he sat down. Moments ago, the My Stack run good rolled around for Collson as he raised to 550 under the gun and got four callers. On the 
flop with two spades, Collson continued for 1,200 and Dave Grana popped it up to 3,000.
It folded back to Collson and he made it 9,000. Grana called to send them heads up to an turn. Collson checked, and when Grana fired all in for around 15,000, he called with two eights.
It was a bit of a cooler, with Grana holding big slick. In the end, Collson's full house held when the river bricked, proving the My Stack run good is real.
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Chris Gras has exited the event, but his legacy lives on.
While defending champ Dan Wagner busted him, it was actually Alan Findlay who got most of his chips in some kind of flush-over-flush debacle.
Findlay has since had his aces cracked to dip below a high-water mark of 65,000, but he's still contending for the early lead with most of Gras' chips still left in his stack.
West Seneca, NY's Dan Wagner just woke up...with two kings.
The truth is, the man who took down last year's Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event, booking a $64,882 score and getting his mug on the cover of CardPlayer Magazine, did just wake up. He hurried in and got here in time to register during the break, taking a seat next to good friend Chris Gras.
Already short, Gras shoved the 
for a little over 3,000 in Wagner's first hand and Wagner was the only caller with his two kings.
No aces or surprises on the board sent Gras to the rail early and helped Wagner get off to a late, but hot start.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
The board now reads a healthy 54 entries heading into the first break of the flight. The room is filling up fast, so that's a number you can expect to double by the time registration and reentry is done for the day.
Buffalo, NY's Brian Jamesgaard will take the lead into the break. He made queen's full of fours versus Colin Phoenix's flopped flush to snatch that lead away from him. Despite the bad luck, Phoenix remains above starting stack and still in contention.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
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