Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
2017 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1c
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
Buy-in
$200
Prize Pool
$50,000
Entries
520
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
My Boat's Bigger Than Yours
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Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Alma, NY's Richard Arnone suddenly has 100,000 and the spot at the top of the leaderboard.
He got there after a massive pot with two queens and two threes on board. It turned out Arnone had a queen and his opponent had a three.
The boat-over-boat debacle left the player on the bottom end crippled and vaulted Arnone to the top.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Too Good To Be True
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Toronto, Canada's Fabio Buomaguro had not played poker for two years before registering today.
He hasn't forgotten how to play, but the details of his meteoric rise to 80,000 and into the chip lead over the past level seemed to escape him for a moment.
He tried floating some fabulous fabrication that involved queens over jacks and set over set, but it all seemed less than plausible. Then, he suddenly recalled catching a four on the river to turn 
into a straight in a big pot.
If Buomaguro's story sounds too good to be true, that's probably because it is.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
80,000 |
The Spice Of Life
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
There was a raise to 1,800 and Todd Saffron looked down at two nines and bumped it to 3,700. The original raiser called and ripped it in for 25,000 on a 
flop.
Saffron called with the mortal nuts and it turned out the raiser had overplayed big slick. Two bricks on the turn and river gave Saffron the checkmark, and the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
78,000 | 32,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Full Service
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
Buffalo, NY's Brian Oshei is enjoying more than just the massage pictured in this photo.
He enjoyed taking the last of Bruce Pace's chips on his first bullet. He also thought holding with a pair of eights in a big pot against all kinds of trouble was pretty cool too.
Now, he's enjoying the chip lead in Level 8 and looking forward to the rest of the afternoon here at Seneca.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
75,000 | 75,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Rebuy!
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
They head into a 15-minute break now with Bruce Pace at the cage buying back in.
After pushing up over 70,000, he spread his chips around the table liberally. Everybody got a piece of the stack until there was nothing left and he was forced to reenter.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
15,000 | -37,000 |
Regulators, Mount Up
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
A pair of Seneca Niagara tourney regs who are always a threat are trending upwards here in Level 7.
Todd Saffron picked up aces and was only too happy to call when one foe jammed a ten-high flop. Aces held against top pair tens to vault Saffron into contention.
In the meantime, William Balcom got it in with a pair and a flush draw and one card to come against 'Buffalo' Ray Williams' top two pair. The flush hit and after busting 'Buffalo' Ray, Balcom picked up kings the very next hand.
He added another 20,000 to his stack against a player that flopped top-top on a queen-high board and now he's among the leaders as well.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
52,000 | 1,800 |
|
|
46,000 | 46,000 |