Level: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Level: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
With the end of Level 22 upon them, the 13 players remaining in the 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event have been sent off on a 45-minute dinner break. Play will resume at approximately 7:30 p.m. local time in Niagara Falls.
Check the Chip Counts Tab above or the post below to see where everybody stands.
Ernie Guardarramas still leads, but after Mark Roberts got his aces cracked, he and Jason Sagle have swapped spots on the leaderboard.
Here's how the rest of the stacks look with 13 left:
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ernie Guardarramas | 1,200,000 | 100,000 |
Bradley Girdler | 975,000 | 275,000 |
Jason Sagle | 900,000 | 300,000 |
Paul McLean | 720,000 | 20,000 |
Lou Procopio | 650,000 | 50,000 |
Tommy Tomasello | 600,000 | -60,000 |
Anne Jones | 575,000 | 255,000 |
Guy Klass | 450,000 | -50,000 |
Hassan Jamil | 450,000 | 160,000 |
Thomas Mader | 350,000 | -200,000 |
Mark Roberts | 320,000 | -480,000 |
Dave Grana | 300,000 | -380,000 |
Rob Bourkney | 240,000 |
In a battle of short stacks, Rob Bourkney called a Dennis Durante shove with two sevens. Durante had the .
Durante laddered up nicely with the short stack, but his deep run finally ended when the board bricked out. Bourkney is now peaking at over 200,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Rob Bourkney | 240,000 | 115,000 |
Dennis Durante | Busted |
Leo Kaplin was the first player to one million in chips, but it was all downhill from there. He got bluffed off a huge pot for half his stack by Bradey Girdler, then he finally got his last 200,000 in, shoving two fours over a Lou Procopio under the gun raise with two callers.
Procopio isolated with the and Kaplin held all the way to the river on a board.
They're down to 14 now with Eric Natkinniemi also running sixes into Jason Sagle's jacks.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Bradley Girdler | 700,000 | 100,000 |
Jason Sagle | 600,000 | 300,000 |
Lou Procopio | 600,000 | 300,000 |
Leo Kaplin | Busted | |
Eric Natkinniemi | Busted |
Level: 22
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
Joe Catalano ran nines into Bradley Girdler's big slick for a couple hundred thousand in chips.
Girdler got there and with Catalano out they are now down to 16.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Bradley Girdler | 600,000 | 180,000 |
Joe Catalano | Busted |
Paul McLean made it 35,000 and Blake Napierala bumped it to 135,000 with 156,000 behind.
It came back to McLean and he ripped it in. Napierala made a reluctant call with the and sure enough, McLean had the .
Aces held on a board not worth writing home about and there are 17 left now with the dangerous Napierala out.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Paul McLean | 700,000 | 300,000 |
Blake Napierala | Busted |
An extremely short stacked Joe Ciffa finally stuck it in with top pair queens. Paul McLean had him outkicked.
In the meantime, Mike Latour shoved 200,000-plus with the over a Ernie Guardarramas raise. He called with the and found a ten.
They're now down to the final two tables of nine with Guardarramas the only one over one million and leading.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ernie Guardarramas | 1,100,000 | 250,000 |
Joe Ciffa | Busted | |
Mike Latour | Busted |
Jason Sagle doubled through Paul McLean after flopping a set versus top pair and holding.
McLean bled off some more chips to Leo Kaplin immediately after, paying him off on a rivered pair of aces.
In the meantime, Ernie Guardarramas has moved back into the lead with Mark Roberts closely in tow.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ernie Guardarramas | 850,000 | 250,000 |
Mark Roberts | 800,000 | 250,000 |
Leo Kaplin | 660,000 | 110,000 |
Paul McLean | 400,000 | -350,000 |
Jason Sagle | 300,000 | 210,000 |