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$300 No Limit Hold’em
Day 1d Completed
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
$300 No Limit Hold’em
Day: 1d
Event Info
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$300
Prize Pool
$160,617
Total Entries
638
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 638
Filter
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Just 24 players remain from the 170 entries the fourth and final flight for the 2017 Western New York Poker Challenge's opening event drew in Niagara Falls on Saturday evening.
John Stempien lost his mind and virtually all of his 200,000 chip stack three-barrell bluffing it off to Dietrich Kuhlman in the last few hands of the night and it will be Kuhlman taking the lead out of this last heat.
Stempien will bring a handful of big blinds and likely a hangover to the table tomorrow. Kuhlman joins the leaders of a pack of 96 from all four flights, heading to the playdown to a winner Sunday.
The chase to the money will kick off at 12 p.m. with plans to pay 63 spots.
The full payout details will be released before play. However, we can tell you they are playing for pieces of a guarantee-slaughtering $160,617 prize pool. First prize will be $36,139 and a min cash worth $578.
Mark Allott has almost 300,000 in chips coming out of the third flight and will take the overall chip lead and his lucky charms into play tomorrow. Nine out of the top ten are all over 200,000 and in the thick of it. Plus, with this many left it's anybody's ball game.
It's all on the line in Niagara Falls Sunday. Check us out tomorrow for continuing coverage of the opening event at the 2017 WNYPC.
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
275,700 | |
|
260,000
259,800
|
259,800 |
|
250,800
29,800
|
29,800 |
|
|
176,100 | |
|
163,900 | |
|
148,400 | |
|
142,300
72,300
|
72,300 |
|
122,100
47,100
|
47,100 |
|
|
116,100 | |
|
|
112,900 | |
|
|
89,000 | |
|
88,600 | |
|
||
|
83,000 | |
|
|
71,100 | |
|
61,200 | |
|
58,200 | |
|
58,100 | |
|
|
49,100
49,100
|
49,100 |
|
48,500
18,500
|
18,500 |
|
|
46,600 | |
|
38,700 | |
|
38,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
32,600 | |
|
19,200
195,800
|
195,800 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Local heros John Stempien, Andy Ranaletti, and Jason Nablo have the chip lead and it will soon be time to bag it up.
Stempien spent the past 30 minutes running up a 200,000 chip stack and drinking two and a half beers. Now he's got talking chips and penchant for playing the bully.
Ranaletti has by far been the luckiest man in the room all night and just rivered a straight in a 200,000 chip pot. While Jason Nablo has simply owned the evening, sipping on some kind of whiskey, telling old stories and playing cards like a beast.
Six more hands and it's over. Check back for the bags and their various sizes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
221,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
|
215,000
215,000
|
215,000 |
|
|
200
99,800
|
99,800 |
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Mike Latour lost a few chips, and after Jason Nablo busted Adam Foster with deuces holding versus Broadway cards, Nablo has moved into the lead.
Nablo and Latour are sat at the same table, and with Nablo having consumed many beers already this evening, the last two levels could prove interesting.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
175,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
155,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Full prizepool and payout details will be released at the start of play Sunday.
However, at this point we can tell you they will be paying 63 spots total, with the winner earning $36,139. A min cash will be worth $578.
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Jason Nablo continues to climb the counts here after busting yet another player.
He got his latest victim all in on a 
flop. This unfortunate soul had 
and was no match for Nablo's .
Needless to say, two bricks on the turn and river gave Nablo the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
140,000
117,000
|
117,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
