2018 Western New York Poker Challenge

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2018 Western New York Poker Challenge

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
45
Prize
$66,736
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$278,050
Entries
315
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

A Knight With Queen's Armour

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Peter Beshay opened to 2,500 from the cutoff getting calls from Aman 'AJ' Singh on the button and Josh Knight in the big blind. A {6-Hearts}{9-Spades}{q-Diamonds} flop fanned out and with two checks in front of him, Singh bet 6,100. Knight check-shoved for about 20,000 getting rid of Beshay and Singh called having slightly less.

Josh Knight: {q-Hearts}{2-Hearts}
Aman 'AJ' Singh: {7-Clubs}{8-Clubs}

The board ran out {2-Spades}{6-Diamonds}, Knight improved to two pair, and Singh's Main Event run was over.

Player Chips Progress
Josh Knight
Josh Knight
55,000
25,000
25,000
Aman 'AJ' Singh us
Aman 'AJ' Singh
Busted

Tags: Aman 'AJ' SinghJosh Knight

Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Mcfall Down and Out

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

A three-bet preflop pot saw Mike Latour get all his chips in the middle on a nine-high flop with the {k-Hearts}{k-Spades}, crushing the {7-Clubs}{7-Spades} of his heads-up opponent, Michael Mcfall. Latour was able to fade the rest of the board scoring a huge double up. Mcfall was left with crumbs and busted moments later.

Player Chips Progress
Mike LaTour us
Mike LaTour
160,000
Michael Mcfall us
Michael Mcfall
Busted

Tags: Mike LatourMichael Mcfall

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

River Straight Triples Up Murray

Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Matt Murray
Matt Murray

All the chips went in preflop between Matt Murray, Arthur Gates, and a third player in the hand. Murray was the shortest stack with 36,000 committed and Gates having the other player covered as well.

Matt Murray: {a-Hearts}{a-Spades}
Arthur Gates: {10-Hearts}{10-Clubs}
Opponent: {8-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}

Much to the delight of the whole table, except possibly Gates, the board ran out {j-Spades}{k-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}. A roller coaster for Murray as he went from having the best hand, to losing, to binking a straight on the river to triple up.

Gates grabbed the side pot sending the third player in the hand to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Arthur Gates us
Arthur Gates
140,000
-20,000
-20,000
Matt Murray us
Matt Murray
120,000

Tags: Matt MurrayArthur Gates

Breaking News; Pocket Jacks Hold

Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Andy Ranaletti
Andy Ranaletti

It's unclear how many bets it took for all the chips to go in the middle but on a {6-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{2-Diamonds} flop, a 185,000 chip pot was created, Jordan Lagano had Andy Ranaletti and a third player in the hand all in and at risk as the cards hit their backs.

Jordan Lagano: {a-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}
Andy Ranaletti: {j-Spades}{j-Hearts}
Opponent: {a-}{k-}

Ranaletti was ahead needing to fade a bunch of outs. The board ran out {4-Spades}{5-Hearts} and as shocking as it may seem, pocket jacks actually held and earned Ranaletti a huge pot.

Player Chips Progress
Andy Ranaletti us
Andy Ranaletti
185,000
75,000
75,000
Jordan Lagano us
Jordan Lagano
35,000
-100,000
-100,000

Tags: Andy RanalettiJordan Lagano