Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
$300 No Limit Hold’em
Day: 1b
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
147 And Counting
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Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
The registration and re-entry period has now closed with this flight drawing 147.
With two more flights to come Saturday, the event is on pace to obliterate the $100,000 guarantee.
In the meantime, Isabelle Tremblay and 'Kid Karma' John Stempien have joined the leader board after building a pair of healthy Level 9 stacks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | |
|
48,000 |
Davis Consolidation
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Six players head to a flop for 3,000 a piece and after the 
is revealed, three of them push in.
The other three fold and the hands reveal one had the 
set, another had the 
open-ended draw, and Rob Davis, who had them both covered, held the 
nut straight.
Davis and his straight held on a 
run out, and after busting two players, he has now moved up among the flight leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
77,000
62,000
|
62,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Tighe On Top
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
We can confirm Pat Tighe is the current chip leader, despite the fact he won't confirm how many chips he has exactly.
Tighe seems to be under the grossly misguided impression that breaking down his chip stack so it's easier to count will result in a dark cloud of bad luck descending upon him. Nothing could be further from the truth.
However, he says it's happened before, taking no responsibility for the fact he likely played way too many hands to hold on to the stack in that particular scenario.
"I play my hands and I play in position," he said. "Position is everything."
Most would agree with him there, it's just this chip stack superstition that's suspect. But any way you count it, Tighe's on top right now and still stacking.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
155,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Build It Up, Blow It Up
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Stack construction and demolition expert Bruce Pace just hit the self destruct button again.
Fireworks between Pace and Michael Gigl were set of on the flop when Pace made it 9,000, Gigle upped it to 25,000, and Pace jammed for a little under 50,000 total.
Gigl snap-called with the 
having an inkling Pace was on a heart draw. Sure enough, Pace had the . The turn and 
river were red, but not hearts and Pace's once healthy stack was sent over to Gigl.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000 | |
|
Busted |
The Dean of Angola
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Angola, NY's Dean Metzger flopped a set of jacks and had the good fortune of being in the pot heads-up with a player holding both a straight and flush draw.
Metzger got a whopping 35,000-chip bet paid off on the turn, and when the river bricked as well, his opponent folded to a shove.
As a result, Metzger now sits among the leaders heading into the late levels.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
150,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
The Heater Is Real
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Anthony Faulise didn't have much of a stack moments ago, but in a matter of two hands, all that has changed.
First he flopped a set of nines and turned quads, getting it in against an opponent with pocket queens. A queen came on the river just to rub salt in that player's wounds.
The very next hand, one shorty shoved 15,100, and after one call, Faulise came over the top with a raise from the big blind. The caller folded and Faulise showed two aces, holding over the shorty's rag-like 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
135,000 |