The 2017 Western New York Poker Challenge Warm-Up event kicked off yesterday morning, but the feature event is today! With $50,000 guaranteed in the prize pool and a $600 buy in, you can bet the Seneca Niagara Poker Room will be full to the brim with players from near and far.
Play begins at 11:00AM and registration will be open until the end of level eight with unlimited re-entries. Players begin the day with 30,000 chips and will play as many 40-minute levels as it takes to crown a winner!
The last of this Warm-Up weekend will end tomorrow with $10,000 guaranteed for a buy in of $150. If that isn't enough, there is also a $145 satellite at 6:00PM with five seats guaranteed into the $1,000 Main Event held on April 7th!
Follow along as PokerNews brings you all of the action with Live Updates all weekend long.
Lue Huang raised to 35,000 from middle position. and Dave Grana three-bet to 80,000 from the cutoff. Joe O' Keefe was on the button and four-bet to 180,000.
Huang folded and Grana quickly called.
The flop came and Grana moved all in. O' Keefe snap-called. Grana tabled while his opponent showed .
The turn was the and the river was the , sending O'Keefe to the rail in ninth place.
Bill Snead shoved his remaining 160,000 chips with queen jack and ran into Brian Bone's ace nine. There was an ace on the flop and he was down to just 28,000 chips.
In the very next hand, Snead went all in for 26,000 from under the gun and was called by [Removed:339]. [Removed:340] held pocket sevens and Snead tabled jack six off suit. The board ran out dry and Snead was eliminated.
. His opponent showed pocket fives.
and Khajavi was eliminated on the bubble.
for top pair but Olshan showed 
for third pair. 
and Olshan was sent home in 13th place!![[Removed:339]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
, but much to his disappointment he was called by Kristan Mackiewicz who held 
. 
while his opponent showed 
.
and the river was the 
when [Removed:340] tabled 
for the nut straight.