When Budwey Salhab heard Chris Gras was closing in on 300,000 across the room he became green with envy and went straight to work trying to run his own stack up.
It worked. Salhab is now in a dead heat with Gras for the chip lead here in Level 13 after cracking one player's pocket aces. A set of tens did the trick. He's a little less green now.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Chris Gras has changed tables, but the results have remained the same. He just busted another player and moved well across the 200,000 mark.
Should Gras keep this up, plans may change here on Day 1a of the 2017 WNYPC Main Event. They are scheduled to finish 15 levels today, but if they get down to 11 players left they'll cut it off there.
Heading into Level 13, just 29 players remain.
Charles Johnson Jr. appears to have Kim Long Trieu's number right now, winning on opposite ends of the same flip moments ago.
First, Johnson shoved 12,000 with big slick and Trieu called with sevens. Johnson won that flip, then jammed his own pair of sevens for 24,000 the next hand.
This time Trieu had big slick. He called again, but missed.
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Buffalo, NY cash game grinder Chris Gras has worked his way into the chip lead after turning a short stack into a big one over the past hour of play.
He busted two players, including having queens over jacks and a straight over three of a kind.
Gras may have had a rough start to the day, but he grinded up from 7,000 to 30,000 and then let a little heater do the rest. Now he's on top and will be looking to put a big number in the bag.
With the registration and reentry period now closed, we can tell you this first starting flight for the 2017 WNYPC $1,000 Main Event drew 84 entries.
Not bad for a snow day. In fact, the event is now well on its way to surpassing the $200,000 prizepool guarantee considering what's coming up.
The second and final starting day goes off at 11 a.m. local time Saturday and with the weather already clearing up outside, it should be a big one.
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
With the end of Level 10 now upon them, the players have been granted a 45-minute dinner break, with which they can enjoy a fabulous buffet provided by the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino.
Play will resume at 7 p.m. local time.
For now, here's how the biggest stacks in the room look:
Coming off a win in the 2017 WNYPC $300 Pot Limit Omaha event last night, Dennis "Batman" Fleig got off to a horrible start today.
He asked for the first seat change button and got it, busting out and buying back in a few minutes ago.
In his first hand in his new home, Fleig picked up two aces and got it all in against kings and ace-ten. He came out the other side of it with almost 90,000 and a whole new outlook on life.
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