2017 Western New York Poker Challenge

$300 Pot Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
Final Results
Winner
Prize
$3,825
Event Info
Buy-in
$300
Prize Pool
$15,000
Total Entries
48
Level Info
Level
19
Blinds
6,000 / 12,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 48
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LaRouech Gets Saxton

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 0 ante
Geoff Saxton
Geoff Saxton

Ray LaRouech potted the button and Geoff Saxton repotted all in for 40,000 from the big blind.

LaRouech had him barely covered and called with the {k-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{4-Clubs}. Saxton needed help with the {j-Clubs}{j-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}, but it was LaRouech who got it on a {k-Spades}{2-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{5-Spades}{7-Spades} board that made him a straight.

With the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam PLO champ now gone, only nine remain.

Tags: Geoff SaxtonRay LaRouech

Level: 14

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 0

Tighten The Noose

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 0 ante

The level after the dinner break has been marred by tight play, with no one giving an inch.

Dennis Fleig has been the most active player, but the results of his effort to play a lot of hands have not had much impact on the chips stacks, which seem stuck where they started.

Ted Blaszczak and Jay Clark did get it in one hand, but they both had aces and chopped.

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 0

Updated Counts (full)

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 0 ante

The Dinner Bell Rings

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 0 ante

With the end of the level upon then the players have headed off on a 30-minute dinner break.

We will update the chip counts before play resumes at approximately 6 p.m. local time.

Down to Ten

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 0 ante
Nick Peperone
Nick Peperone

Matt Marcinkiewicz made it 4,800 and got three callers, including Dennis Fleig, who had been killing it and was closing in on 200,000.

The flop came {3-Spades}{10-Spades}{2-Diamonds} and Marcinkiewicz continued for 7,400 and Fleig put him to the test for the rest of his 12,300-chip stack, betting 20,000. The rest folded, Marcinkiewicz called and the hands were tabled.

Marcinkiewicz: {q-Spades}{q-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}
Flieg: {4-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}

Fleig had all kinds of outs against Marcinkiewicz' queens, but missed them all on a {3-Clubs}{k-Spades} run out.

In the meantime, Nick Peperone shoved a rivered full house, but ran into Alex Rivera's runner-runner straight flush. Peperone went out 11th and they are now at a final table of ten.

Tags: Nick Peperone

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 0

Ousted!

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 0 ante

Short stacks Derek Schlesinger and Anastasios Charitou ultimately relented and the rest of the remaining field heads into Level 12 without them.

After this half hour stanza there is a scheduled 30-minute dinner break.

Updated Counts (full)

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 0 ante

Things have slowed down considerably over the past half hour.

However, the structure finally caught up with short stacks Thomas Mader and John Bolla and they are gone. The rest stack up like this: