Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
$300 No Limit Hold’em
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
Buy-in
$300
Prize Pool
$160,617
Entries
638
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
On The Grind
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Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Upstate New York's Mike Feldmeyer has slowly grinded his way into a spot among the leaders.
He just busted one player with 
versus 
, flopping a pair against a flush draw and fading all trouble.
That 20,000-chip pot pushed him over the 50,000-chip mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
54,000 |
A Dizzy Spell
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Infamous social media keyboard warrior Matt Marcinkiewicz is having a good day.
He made two full houses against the same player to relieve him of heaps. Later he flopped a straight and got full value for that hand as well.
Marcinkiewicz, who's name is less difficult to spell than one would think, just became one of the first players past the 50,000-chip mark and is contending for the lead half way through the flight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
54,000 | 39,000 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Veerab's Run Continues
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Coming off a third place finish in the 2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event, Toronto, Canada's Veerab Zakarian has been killing it around these parts, booking decent scores everywhere from Verona, NY to across the bridge in Niagara Falls, Ontario all winter long.
Now, Spring is here and he's found a double, turning a set of kings and getting it in against an opponent who flopped two pair. The set held and Zakarian is starting yet another run.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
38,000 |
The Lackawanna Luckbox
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Lackawanna, NY's Greg Delecki has moved up close to 50,000 and a spot at the top of the counts after two flopped straights.
The first straight was actually his opponent's with Delecki getting it in on the flop with two pair. He turned a boat. Delecki then flopped the second straight and it held to give him heaps heading towards the mid-point of this flight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
49,000 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
A Personal Vendetta
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
The player under the gun made it 825 and perennial contender Rick Block made the call behind, swearing a personal vendetta against Cameron Bartolotta and claiming he never folds when it's his big blind.
It folded to Goran Velimirovic in the small blind and he called. Bartolotta came along for the ride in the big. Bartolotta checked the 
flop and UTG continued for 1,800. Block relented, cursing Bartolotta's name, but Velimirovic called.
Bartolotta came back with a check-raise, making it 4,500 and only Velimirovic called. Velimirovic checked the 
turned and Bartolotta jammed in for 9,200 total. Velimirovic looked him up with the 
flush draw, but Bartolotta had the goods. His 
set held after a 
river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
34,500 | 17,300 |
|
14,700 | -15,300 |
|
14,000 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
He Took The Bait
Level 4
: 100/200, 25 ante
Port Colborne, Canada's Gail Bates has moved to the top of the chip counts headed into the first break of the day.
This courtesy of one overzealous opponent who moved all in on the river after Bates turned big slick into Broadway.
"I suspect he had trips," Bates said smiling.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
42,000 |