Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
2017 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$125 No-Limit Hold'em Reentry
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
Buy-in
$125
Prize Pool
$43,320
Entries
456
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
4,000
Slow News Day
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Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
It's a slow news day with the board still reading under 40 entries.
They were playing The Ladyboy game at Table 5 for a while. The rules: Pick up any 
, win the hand, and Cameron Bartolotta was promising to pay out double the pot in cold, hard, Canadian bad beat jackpot cash.
Unfortunately, only he was to only one able to show it down. Alicia LaPorte Pachla picked it up in the big blind once, and as with every , she had to take a closer look to avoid mistaking it for aces. In the end, she saw the Adam's apple, but was unable to win the pot and pick up the bonus.
The game ended with John Abraham slow rolling Bartolotta for the last of his dwindling stack. Bartolotta shoved 
for peanuts and and Abraham took his sweet time calling with the king-high from the big blind.
Abraham hit, Bartolotta missed, left disappointed, and The Ladyboy bank was closed.
Level: 6
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
The Right Time
Level 6
: 250/500, 50 ante
Amherst, NY's Kevin Resendes sure picked the right time to get sneaky with a pair of kings in the hole.
He limped in from early position and after one player made it 1,600 to go and another called, a fourth player in the hand raised it up to 6,000. Resendes then shipped it in for 16,000-plus and got the call from pocket tens.
He even flopped a king for good measure and rode victory into the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
35,000 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Big Lucky
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Perhaps I've told too many tall tales, or spread too many rumors about Seneca regulars, because these days it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a straight story out of a lot of them.
The again, this time we're talking about John Abraham, and this could all be a part of the psychological game he seems to be playing with all of us.
Either way, Abraham has managed to work his way into a massive early lead here and is refusing to divulge too many details about how he's put it together.
"Just call me Big Lucky," he said. "Big Lucky John."
OK, done, Big Lucky John, but how exactly did you get those chips? Well, there was some sketchy details about ace-eight versus king-eight on an eight-high board, but other than that, I suppose we'll never know.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
DiCamillo is DiLeader
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
A little beat of a heater sees Michael DiCamillo take the lead here in this final level before the registration and reentry period closes.
DiCamillo faded a flush draw with a dominating ace to knock one player out and made quad fives a little earlier to climb the ladder.
He's got the lead now with just 17 players remaining from a small starting field that isn't likely to grow much bigger now with less than 30 minutes left to get in.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
65,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Becker Laying Beats
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
Brad Becker had to beat two weak aces with the 
in a three-way all in preflop.
All he did was flop them dead on an all heart board. Now Becker has three times the starting stack and there are only 14 players left in.
The plan going forward is to play the full 14 levels for the flight. However, it will end early if they manage to get down to 12 percent of the field, which looks like it will ultimately land somewhere between five and six players once registration closes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100