No more smoke and mirrors for Andy Spears - He's got a real big stack now.
He raised 
suited and a player with two aces just flatted. Two threes on the flop tell you most of what you need to know, the rest is just a bad beat story some unfortunate soul is downstairs at the bar telling right now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
175,000
138,000
|
138,000 |
Joseph Elia is suddenly a contender here after handing fellow Seneca tournament standout Silvio DeRubeis his walking papers.
They got it in set-over-set with DeRubeis on deuces and Elias jacks. A fourth jack on the river was just salt rubbed in the DeRubeis wound.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Here's a look at the biggest stacks in the room heading into Level 12:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
205,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
195,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
140,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
135,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
135,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
|
130,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
115,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
110,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
105,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
100,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
90,500
6,400
|
6,400 |
|
90,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
80,000
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
80,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
45,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
Busted |
With registration and reentry now closed for this second flight, some of the numbers are in.
This second flight drew a whopping 183 entries, almost 100 more than Friday's 84. That makes it a grand total of 267 entries, outpacing the 244 this event drew last year.
Unofficially, the prizepool hit $235,681. We will have the full prizepool and payout details posted when they're in, but we can tell you Rick Block earned $52,768 taking the title last time around with a smaller field, so first-prize int he 2017 WNYPC Main Event should be even bigger than that.
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
With ten levels of poker behind them, the players have been sent off on a 45-minute dinner break.
When play resumes at approximately 7:05 p.m. local time, the registration and reentry period for this second and final starting flight in the 2017 WNYPC Main Event will end.
Right now they are at 180 entries for the day, making 264 total. The $200,000 prizepool guarantee has been obliterated again. Some 96 are left in today's flight and will return from dinner looking to last five more levels and bag a big stack.
It was a family pot with everyone at the table paying 2,000 chips to see the 
flop.
A battle of local titans began when Blake Napierala led for 8,000 and DJ MacKinnon raised to 26,000. The rest of the table were scared off and when it folded back to Napierala, he shoved 70,000.
Mackinnon called with the bigger stack and Napierala was at risk with his two pair. Mackinnon had a set of deuces and it held, sending Napierala to bed without dinner.
Speaking of dinner, it now appears Mackinnon will take the chip lead into the 45-minute dinner break just minutes from now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
185,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
Busted |
Border-hopping interloper Cameron Bartolotta is putting together a little bit of a zero to hero story here today.
Down to 7,000 in chips he doubled with 
, then picked up pocket aces back-to-back, getting paid off in spades.
The former Canadian prison guard, a job akin to working maintenance at a country club anywhere else, already has a title and a trophy from a side event earlier in the 2017 WNYPC. Now he's now on track to get what he wished for at the start of the day, with the dinner break coming up at the end of this level.
@SNFPoker #WNYPC 1K Main today... I'm just here for the free food... loves me some 2K chicken
— CamJBarto (@CAMJBARTO)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
90,000
4,400
|
4,400 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
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