Just 15 Survive Day 1b
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The 2015 edition of Summer Slam kicked off at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel poker room today with the first two of four starting flights for Event #1, a $200 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament featuring 30-minute levels, 15,000-chip starting stacks, and a $50,000 guarantee.
The second flight drew a total of 96 entries, but just 15 players survived through 14 levels of play. Alex Rivera had over 200,000 chips heading into the late levels and looked like a lock for the chip lead. However, he dusted off a substantial portion of his stack and local rounder Jason Nablo out-chipped him at day's end, bagging 174,200 for the Day 1b lead.
All 15 players will return for Day 2 Sunday at 11 a.m. local time to play down to a champion. They will be joined by the 19 survivors from Day 1a and anyone who makes it through 14 levels of play from two more starting flights set for 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday.
The PokerNews Live Reporting team will return to cover all the action from those flights beginning Saturday at 11 a.m.