With the start of Level 9 now here, it appears this sixth and final flight will go down as the biggest by a country mile, drawing 133 entries.
That means a total of 456 entries for this $125 Reentry event. In also means two other things, the first of which is a guarantee smashing estimated prizepool of more than $43,000 has been created. Full prizepool and payout details will be released before the start of Day 2 Thursday.
The second, is that with 133 entries in this final flight, play will continue until there is 16 players left or 14 levels have been played, whichever comes first.
David Battaglia picked up some easy money when his heads-up opponent shoved an ace-high flop.
Battaglia called with and his opponent had the . He was drawing dead by the turn.
As a result, Battaglia is in familiar position among the leaders and hoping to add to his growing reputation as Seneca's most consistent player with another deep run here.
With 456 entries in this event, a $43,320 prizepool was created that will pay the top 45 finishers.
Although it's not official yet, it looks like the first-place prize will be $10,320, an amazing figure considering the $125 buy in.
So far, 42 players are through to Thursday's second and final day. Any survivors from this flight will join them as well and it appears they will start play just shy of the money bubble.
At 67 years old, Cleveland, OH's Mike Kennedy figures he must be the oldest guy left in the tournament at this point.
It's hard to say for sure. In fact, the only thing we can say for sure, is that he's put together the biggest stack in this flight so far.
Kennedy is sitting on six figures right now and even at his age, he doesn't seem too concerned about how late play may go.
That's because he's parked the brand new camper van he drove up from Ohio in the lot outside and won't have far to go to get to bed.
Mike drove up to play the entire 2017 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam series this week and is looking forward to a deep run here to cover the costs and more. In fact, he bought that camper van to travel around to tournament series across the country and make it pay.
He's already had the experience of playing in the World Series of Poker and is looking forward to hitting the road to see what the rest of the country's poker scene has to offer.
So why does he figure he's the oldest one left in the event?
"I'm always the oldest player left," he said with a wink and a smile.
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and his opponent had the 
. He was drawing dead by the turn.
