The player in seat seven threw a single yellow 5,000-denomination chip in the middle and said "five," as it rolled right off the table.
He was heads up with Bruce Pace on an board with a few thousand in the middle already. Once they retrieved the chip, his bet was determined to be for 500, since all he said was five. Pace made it 3,000 and seat seven threw in an extra five...thousand, making it 8,000. Confused yet?
Pace called and after a brick on the river, seat seven fired out 6,000 at it. Pace had aces and deuces and looked him up. Seat seven claimed a ten and made a mental note not to try to bluff Pace again. Ever.
Surprise, surprise, Rochester, NY's Chris Damick is off to a hot start again.
He turned a straight against a flopped set to get the full double up. Then, Damick had aces versus Bran Bowen's kings. They both made a set, but scare cards kept the pot from getting too big, and Bowen survived it.
Damick won the 2017 Fall Classic Warm Up here in Niagara Falls. Plus he final tabled the 2017 Summer Slam High Roller and ran deep in the 2017 Summer Slam Main Event. Nobody in the room is running better.
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Inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Resort we also play the second and final starting flight for the $1,000 buy-in $200,000 guaranteed 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event, because we can. The freedom to do so having been afforded to us by the efforts of so many.
Play will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday and let's not forget this one is played for more than just cash and a sweet trophy. For the second year in a row, CardPlayer magazine has come on as a title sponsor of the Seneca Fall Poker Classic, so the Main Event winner will grace the cover of CardPlayer, one of the most popular magazines in all of poker.
The event will kick off and play out entirely inside the poker room. Players will start with 30,000 in chips with plans to play through 15 40-minute levels on Day 1. The levels increase in length as the tournament moves forward.
Registration and unlimited reentry is available through the first ten levels and the 45-minute dinner break that will take place after ten levels are through. After drawing 95 entries through that period on Day 1a Friday, there's little doubt the guarantee will be met and more.
This event always attracts some of the area's top poker players and several from beyond it. In fact, last year saw a whopping 300 entries create a guarantee-smashing $264,810 prize pool. It was a record field for a Seneca Niagara Main Event and West Seneca and New York's Dan Wagner got the monkey off his back by taking it down.
In fact, the top earning pro booked his first big win after final table appearances in the 2016 Western New York Poker Challenge and 2015 Summer Slam Main Events. He is expected to return topday to defend that title.
With multiple satellite winners already in, and more running up until the last minute, there should be a big field for this one as well. Any and all susrvivors will join the 19 from Friday in playing for the big money and the glory Sunday.
Of course, PokerNews will be on hand from beginning to end, so sit back and enjoy our coverage of the 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event. It starts now.
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board with a few thousand in the middle already. Once they retrieved the chip, his bet was determined to be for 500, since all he said was five. Pace made it 3,000 and seat seven threw in an extra five...thousand, making it 8,000. Confused yet?
