The 2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event Final Table Starts Now!
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The 2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event final table will kick off at 12 p.m. today inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Resort, and the poker community in Western New York is buzzing.
Nine players remain in the hunt for a $64,882 first-place prize, Seneca Niagara poker glory and a spot on the cover of CardPlayer Magazine, but one has a huge lead and a chance to get an ever-growing monkey off his back.
Dan Wagner currently sits 17th on Hendon Mob's Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel All Time Money List with $49,884 in tournament cashes. However, big scores in Las Vegas and across the bridge in Niagara Falls, Canada have his career tournament earnings up to $273,078, making him one of Western New York's top grinders.
The only thing missing from Wagner's trophy case are the trophies. He's made multiple Main Event final tables at Seneca Niagara, and his biggest score came from a runner-up finish in the $1,100 buy-in 2015 Fallsview Poker Classic in Canada, but he has yet to win a tournament.
Today will mark his best chance yet. Wagner comes in with 2.7 million in chips and a massive lead. He's got roughly 30 percent of the chips in play and none of the other eight players still in are within one million chips of him. It would seem it's his tournament to win, or lose, but it is poker, and anything can happen.
Mark Allott comes into the final nine as the closest player to Wagner, after a huge three-way all-in hand saw him knock out Joseph [Removed:340] on the final table bubble, and double through one-time leader Veerab Zakarian, cracking his aces after calling off 400,000 in chips and flopping a set of sixes.
Zakarian is still in as well, and although much shorter than he could have been, he still retains a shot at redemption after finishing second to Rick Block in this very event in 2014.
Three other players in the final nine will be looking to complete their rags to riches story with an even deeper run here today. Jay Clark got short before the bubble, but turned things around to book a seat at the final table with more than one million chips. Cameron Bartollota survived some bad luck early on Day 2 and a short stack to push through, and the colorful Peter Bogulski rose from the ashes of the bubble to earn his spot in the final.
The rest of the final table includes poker hobbyist Brian Bowen, Maryland's Sean Gomez, and Nicholas Potwora, who stayed among the leaders throughout the day Sunday making a few head-turning reads.
Play will resume at 12 p.m. Monday with the levels increasing to 60-minutes in length. The top six finishers will all earn five-figure prizes.
PokerNews will have live coverage from the start of the final table until a 2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Champion is crowned, so stay tuned to catch all the action.
Here's how the final table looks:
| Seat | Player | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicholas Potwora | 812,000 |
| 2 | Mark Allott | 1,440,000 |
| 3 | Veerab Zakarian | 694,000 |
| 4 | Cameron Bartolotta | 470,000 |
| 5 | Dan Wagner | 2,710,000 |
| 6 | Sean Gomez | 645,000 |
| 7 | Brian Bowen | 745,000 |
| 8 | Peter Bogulski | 356,000 |
| 9 | Jay Clark | 1,105,000 |