$300 Pot Limit Omaha
Day 1 Started
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
$300 Pot Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
Buy-in
$300
Prize Pool
$15,000
Entries
48
Level
19
Blinds
6,000 / 12,000
Ante
0
The 2017 WNYPC $15,000 Guaranteed $300 PLO Starts Now!
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Welcome Back to PokerNews' continuing coverage of the 2017 Western New York Poker Challenge.
Today we shine the spotlight on the great game of Pot-Limit Omaha with the $15,000 Guaranteed $265+$35 PLO Re-Entry Event #7.
It's four cards instead of two. Two cards must play at showdown and the limit is always the pot.
It's a single-day event and the levels are 30-minutes each. Players get 20,000 chips to start and can enter and reenter freely, all the way up to the start of Level 9. PLO tournaments have no antes.
Like a lot of card rooms across this great country, here at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino, PLO cash plays higher than Hold'em. That means the best of the best in Western New York all have a great grasp of four-card poker and should to turn up to chase this title.
Last time around, at the 2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic, a 27-year-old roofer from Depew, NY took down the $300 Pot Limit Omaha. Jeff Salhab earned $5,897 and the title getting the best of an 80-entry field that created a guarantee-smashing $20,140 prizepool.
They are expecting similar numbers today.
Play begins at 11 a.m. local time and although things may start a little slow, they're bound to heat up quickly.
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
Twist of Fate
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
There's only 22 players in so far. They're playing on three relatively quiet tables as registration continues. The numbers should start climbing fast after the fourth level and first break.
In some strange twist of fate, 2016 Seneca Summer Slam PLO Champ Geoff Saxton has Ray LaRouech and Elvis Palmeri at his table. They made third and fourth in that same event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
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20,000 | 20,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
The Main Event
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
The $1,000 buy-in $200,000 guaranteed 2016 Western New York Poker Challenge Main Event will kick off tomorrow with the first of two starting flights beginning at 11 a.m.
The event will be held on the hotel balcony at Seneca Niagara, so it's open to anyone 18 and up. There's open registration and reentry for 10 levels and a chance to try it all again on Saturday. It's a three-day event so they'll play down to a final table Sunday and return to crown a champ and fight for pieces of the lion's share of the prizepool Monday.
Of course, PokerNews will be on hand to provide live coverage of the event from start to finish as well, so stay tuned.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Level 4
: 150/300, 0 ante
Martin Adzhyan, who made third in the second WNYPC $10,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold'em event earlier this week, is off to a hot start and is among the leaders heading into the first break of the day.
Adzhyan got it all in for close to 15,000 with a turned straight and held on the river against a miss, some muttering and a muck.
In the end, he got the full double and more.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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42,500 |