Today began the first ever event on the new DeepStacks Poker Tour and the Western New York Poker Championship, visiting Seneca Casino in Niagara Falls, NY. The Championship had a $200,000 guarantee for a $1,500 buyin, a structure designed to provide plenty of play, and a field which contained many DeepStacks Pros along with players from around the state and country.
There was excitement in the room as ESPN Poker's Lon McEachern kicked things off and cameras were roaming the field during the day catching great action as well as entertainment on the feature table. Players began with 25,000 in chips and 50 minutes levels.
When registration closed, 217 players were registered for the tournament creating a $281,232 prizepool with winner collecting over $70,000 and the top 24 finishing in the money. DeepStacks Pros were represented by Mike Matusow, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Adam "Roothlus" Levy, Karina Jett, Tristan "Cre8ive" Wade, Randal Flowers, and Jay Houston. Reigning champion Randy Pfeifer was also back in the mix looking to defend his title. 2010 Senenca Niagara Player of the Year Travell Thomas was also making noise, with his play and his talk, sitting opposite of "The Mouth" for much of the day.
It was a rough day for the big names pros as only Mizrachi is the only one to make it through to Day 2. Matusow spent most of his time sitting at the feature table above the Seneca Casino floor and was scrapping it up with Mizrachi on several occasions, and it was Mizrachi who eventually ended his day when QT outflopped Matusow's Aces.
Adam "Roothlus" Levy was sent to the rail courtesy of Aces as well. In this case he was the one facing them with AK and found no help against occasional chip leader Jonathan Dimmig. Karina Jett's day came to end after finding herself short-stacked on the wrong end of a bad beat KK falling to AK leaving just Mizrachi to represent the DeepStacks Pros.
Played ended with just 42 players remaining in the tournament and they will return tomorrow at 2:30pm. The average chip stack is around 130,000 and they are scheduled to continue play until they have their final table six. Listed below are the Top Ten Day 2 chip counts.
Michael Mizrachi - 338,500
Sammy Smith - 303,500
Andy Spears - 301,000
Kyaw Naing - 282,000
Randy Pfeifer - 281,500
Kam Low - 234,000
Larry Carney - 233,500
Jonathan Dimmig - 213,000
Greg Hartwick - 185,500
Justin Brennan - 181,500
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