2015 Western New York Poker Challenge

Event 8: $200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2015 Western New York Poker Challenge

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$5,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$170
Prize Pool
$27,132
Entries
168
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
4,000

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

The Stacks

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Word on Greg Sutton is that he played pretty much every hand at his table until he ran out of chips.

Below is how the rest of the early leaders now stack up:

Player Chips Progress
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Barry Kruger
57,800
25,100
25,100
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Paul Bantle
42,500
15,000
15,000
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Diana Piccioli
41,800
1,900
1,900
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Tim Becker
28,200
-1,800
-1,800
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Adam Smith
27,000
1,800
1,800
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David Olshan
6,125
-27,875
-27,875
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Greg Sutton
Busted

Get Off Of My Cloud

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante
Jill Cloud
Jill Cloud

Lackawanna, NY's Jill Cloud has emerged as the chip leader here building a massive early stack.

She's on better than 85,000 now after making a boat against a nut flush once and quad nines a little later.

Player Chips Progress
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Jill Cloud
85,200

Fill It Up

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

The late entries and re-entries keep coming and they can't seat them fast enough.

The board now reads 139 entries into Level 6 and this final $200 buy-in event is quickly becoming among the most popular of the series.

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
Diana Piccioli
Diana Piccioli

Diana Piccioli has had nothing but good cards and a lot of luck to start the tournament.

She's picked up pocket aces twice, and although no once called her then, she did get most of two other players chips in a hand where she made a wheel.

It appears all this run-good runs in the family, as her son Bryan is the very same Bryan Piccioli that won the $1,100 No Limit Hold'em - Accumulator bracelet event at the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific in 2013, collecting a $221,419 first-place prize.

Player Chips Progress
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Diana Piccioli
39,900
25,350
25,350

Merry Christmas

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
David Olshan
David Olshan

An early gift has David Olshan near the top of the chip counts.

He got one player to commit 3,200 chips preflop with {6-}{4-} against his {j-}{j-}. Then when that player flopped a pair and a gutshot he committed the rest.

Olshan's jacks held and he now has more than twice what he started with.

Player Chips Progress
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David Olshan
34,000

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

A Nightmare On Elm Street

Level 4 : 100/200, 0 ante
Barry Kruger
Barry Kruger

An early double has veteran rounder Barry Kruger in the mix here in Event #8.

He made a Broadway straight against top two to bust one and make things a bit of a nightmare for the rest of the players on his table going forward.

Player Chips Progress
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Barry Kruger
32,700