The 2016 Western New York Poker Challenge Main Event Starts Now!
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It's a gorgeous Spring morning just steps from the majesty that is Niagara Falls with the first of two starting flights for the 2016 Western New York Poker Challenge Main Event set to kick off at 11 a.m. local time.
The tournament features a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool and players will start out 30,000 chips in the hunt for a piece of it.
The two opening flights will see players try to weave their way through 15 full 40 minute levels. The levels will increase to 50 minutes on Day 2, and 60 minutes on Day 3. There will be a 45-minute dinner break at the end of Level 10 today and registration and reentry will be open until it ends with the start of the 11th level.
Big events at Seneca Niagara always attract the cream of the Western New York poker crop and this one should be no different. One player expected to turn up is the formidable Buck Ramsay. This Canadian has dominated the poker scene here for the past couple of years, and comes in as defending Western New York Poker Challenge Main Event Champion.
Ramsay also won the 2014 Seneca Niagara Summer Slam Main Event, made a final table appearance in the finale of the last big series in the Buffalo area before this week's Challenge and will certainly be one to watch as this Main Event plays out.
Of course, PokerNews will be covering all the entrants as they contest one of the area's most prestigious poker titles and you can follow along from start to finish, right here in this space.