$300 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1 Completed
2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
$300 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam
Buy-in
$300
Prize Pool
$19,385
Entries
77
Level
24
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0
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Level 24
: 20,000/40,000, 0 ante
A 33-year-old Grocery Manager at Tops Friendly Markets, playing in his first ever live Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, won the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam $300 Pot-Limit Omaha event on Thursday night.
Albion, NY's Geoff Saxton defeated a field of 77 entries to earn a $5,356 first-place prize after a three-way chop with Ray LaRouech and eventual runner-up Evan Shaughnessy left $1,356 and the title to play for.
The event smashed it's $15,000 Guarantee, creating a $19,385 prize pool that paid the top eight finishers. Play was fast and loose up until the final table bubble when things tightened up considerably.
Abe Reinhardt bubbled the money and Shaughnessy was steamrolling the final table at that point, potting liberally and taking advantage of the tight play to build a considerable lead.
Domenic Olivo busted eighth, Mark Roberts seventh, and [Removed:300] sixth, with Shaughnessy still rolling, until he ran into Saxton. They got it in on a ten-high flop with Shaughnessy holding queens and Saxton on ace-queen with a gutshot. Sure enough, the gutshot hit, and Shaughnessy's time at the top was over.
Michael O'Hallaran's tournament ended with a fifth-place finish, and Elvis Palmeri busted fourth before things evened out a bit three-handed and the deal was struck.
A three-way all-in pot soon after put Shaughnessy back in front, and after LaRouech busted third, he took a 2:1 lead heads up. Saxton ramped up the aggression at that point, and snatched the lead back, before a massive set-over-set cooler ended it all.
With that, the $300 Pot-Limit Hold'em event ended with Saxton on top, but PokerNews' coverage of the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam continues Friday with the first of two starting flights in the $600 Main Event beginning at 11 a.m. local time.
Level 24
: 20,000/40,000, 0 ante
Evan Shaughnessy made it 80,000 and Geoff Saxton raised to 240,000 from the big blind.
Shaughnessy called and they checked it all the way down to the river on an 
board. Saxton checked and Shaughnessy shoved in.
Saxton called with the 
for a set of jacks and Shaughnessy was on the wrong end of a cooler with the 
for a set of fives.
Shaughnessy was eliminated in second place and Saxton became the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam $300 Pot-Limit Omaha champion. A recap will follow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,540,000
540,000
|
540,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 24
: 20,000/40,000, 0 ante
Geoff Saxton has turned things around with series of aggressive post-flop plays and now has a 2:1 lead over Evan Shaughnessy.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,000,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
|
500,000
-500,000
|
-500,000 |
Level: 24
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 0
Level 23
: 15,000/30,000, 0 ante
Evan Shaughnessy potted with the 
and Ray LaRouech called all in with the 
.
The board rolled out 
and Shaughnessy made a full house to eliminate LaRouech and take a 2:1 lead into heads-up play with Geoff Saxton.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,000,000
-170,000
|
-170,000 |
|
|
500,000
225,000
|
225,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 23
: 15,000/30,000, 0 ante
The players got it all in three-ways before the flop:
Evan Shaughnessy: 
Geoff Saxton: 
Ray LaRouech: 
The board ran out 
and Shaughnessy tripled up into the lead, while LaRouech survived taking a small side pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,170,000
805,000
|
805,000 |
|
|
275,000
-385,000
|
-385,000 |
|
|
140,000
-385,000
|
-385,000 |
Level: 23
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 0
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 0 ante
The three players remaining have struck a deal, taking $4,000 each and leaving $1,356 and the trophy to play for. The Payouts Tab has been updated.
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
660,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
525,000
225,000
|
225,000 |
|
|
365,000
75,000
|
75,000 |