$120 No-Limit Hold'em II
Day 1 Started
$120 No-Limit Hold'em II
Day 1 Started
The 2018 Western New York Poker Challenge (WNYPC) rolls on tonight with Event #5: $120 No-Limit Hold'em $10,000 Guarantee getting underway at 5 PM local time inside the Seneca Niagara poker room.
This is the third straight night for the low buy-in hold'em event. Last night, a field of 152 entries gathered creating a guarantee smashing prize pool of more than $14,000 with John Griswold capturing the title. Though talks of a chop were brought up many times, they were always quickly declined by more than one finalist and eventually, into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Griswold walked away with a top prize worth $3,821.
In 2017, Canadian border-crossing rounder Cameron Bartolotta topped 95 runners in this event en route to a four-way chop that netted him $2,007.
When the action gets underway this evening each player will start with 10,000 tournament chips with blind levels increasing every 20 minutes. Late registration will remain open until the end of Level 9 with unlimited re-entries available during that time.
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Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The cards are in air with 41 players currently in a seat. Late registration will remain open until the end of Level 9.
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Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
The field is starting to fill up with 70 entries now tallied. Some of the familiar faces include two players to make last night's final table; Marty Derbyshire and runner-up, Leo Kaplin.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Leo Kaplin | 10,000 | |
Dave Burkley | 10,000 | |
Jim Goertz | 10,000 | |
Marty Derbyshire | 10,000 | |
David Paluch
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10,000 | |
Stephanie Goertz | 10,000 | |
Jeremy Felicetti | 10,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Three players including Stephanie Goertz built a pot of 1,700 before seeing a flop. Goertz, who looked to be the preflop aggressor, continued with a bet of 1,000, not losing either of her tablemates.
All three players checked the on the turn bringing the []s] on the river. Goertz check-called a bet of 2,200 only to see her opponent table the , making a gut-shot straight on the river. Goertz flashed two queens as her cards went into the muck.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Stephanie Goertz | 5,200 | -4,800 |
Jim Goertz is off to a great start. We didn't catch the action but saw the dealer pushing a pile of chips towards Goertz. Goertz filled us in on the action. Three of them paid 1,200 preflop and one of them shoved with a gutshot straight draw. Goertz called a nut flush draw and another called with pocket queens.
Goertz made his flush on the river and scooped the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jim Goertz | 41,000 | 31,000 |