$300 No Limit Hold’em
Day 1a Started
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
Welcome to Day 1 of the WNYPC!
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Western New York is still thawing out from another long and hard winter, but things are heating up inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino.
Today marks the start of the Western New York Poker Challenge, an 11-day tournament series that always draws top rounders from near and far.
The first tournament on the schedule is a humdinger. It's a $300 No Limit Hold'em event with four starting flights and a whopping $100,000 guarantee.
Of course, Seneca Niagara has a long history of smashing such guarantees and this one should be no different.
There are two starting flights today, two more Saturday, and the numbers should only grow as they move along.
Players get 15,000 in starting chips and will attempt to navigate their way through 14 half-hour levels in the opening flights. Registration and unlimited re-entry is available until the start of Level 9.
Welcome to the Western New York Poker Challenge – Let's get it on!
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
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Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Go-Go Goran
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Toronto, Canada's Goran Velimirovic is off to a blazing hot start and has managed to grab the Level 2 chip lead.
He got the better part of a full double up when he flopped the nut flush against the second nut flush. Having the 
on a board with four clubs a little later only added to his good fortune.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 |
The Regular Crowd Shuffles In
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
The room is filling up fast now, with these regs having jumped in the mix:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
|
15,000 | |
|
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Spell Check
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Toronto, Canada's Peter Alafogiannis has jumped into a spot among the early leaders.
His path there included flopping a set of aces against a set of jacks. All the money went in on the turn and Alafogiannis avoided the bad beat to take it down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
35,000 |
Over The Falls in a Barrel
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Michael Irvine has separated himself from the growing pack at the top of the chip counts.
The Niagara Falls, Canada native picked up two aces and managed to make a boat over a straight to take a sizable pot, cresting the 40,000-chip mark.
He's now got the lead heading into the flight's fourth level.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
41,000 |