Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Western New York Poker Challenge
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$235,681
Entries
267
Level
26
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
4,000
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Level 25
: 15,000/30,000, 4,000 ante
Four players will return to battle it out for a $57,738 first-place prize and the title of 2017 Western New York Poker Challenge Main Event Champion in Niagara Falls, NY on Monday.
Day 2 of the event began Sunday at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino with 55 players remaining and the 27-player money bubble in sight.
Niagara Falls, Canada's Matt Brunskole came in with the chip lead, and although he made the money, he did not get a sniff of the final table. Top local rounder DJ MacKinnon got a sniff, but that was all, finishing tenth to bubble the official final table of nine.
Erik Christensen and WSOP Bracelet winner Michael Malm were leading when the final table began, but Christensen pulled out in front, busting Scott Murawa ninth and Hayden Glassman eighth.
Malm doubled up Buffalonian Guy Klass and Canadian Anne Jones in short order and suddenly had the smallest stack. Damian Baird then ran into Christensen to bust seventh. However, things began to go south for Christensen at that point.
Eventually he dipped out of the lead and Peter Beshay took it, sending Christensen out sixth in a massive cooler. Beshay made a boat versus Christensen's trip nines in that massive pot, and after also busting Mark Bowersock fifth, he had more than a third of the chips in play.
Beshay could not hold the lead either, and the table swapped chips around four-handed before Klass, who finished third in this event in 2015, moved out front. They talked about a chop, but ultimately bagged up at the end of Level 25 and will come back Monday to finish up.
They will resume play at 12 p.m. local time Monday inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room. Each of the returning players will be guaranteed at least $19,326.
PokerNews will be on hand providing live coverage from start to finish Monday. Tune in to see who becomes the 2017 WNYPC Main Event Champion and who pockets the rest of the prize money.
The chip counts are listed below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,478,000
478,000
|
478,000 |
|
1,731,000
-469,000
|
-469,000 |
|
1,641,000
-109,000
|
-109,000 |
|
||
|
1,155,000
155,000
|
155,000 |
Level 25
: 15,000/30,000, 4,000 ante
Michael Malm and Peter Beshay have swapped spots in the counts after a big overbet on the river by Malm.
Malm made it 525,000 into a 300,000-chip pot with a set of threes. Beshay called and mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,750,000
1,100,000
|
1,100,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,000,000
-1,100,000
|
-1,100,000 |
Level: 25
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 4,000
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Guy Klass made quad eights and took down a 1.5 million chip pot to snatch the lead from Peter Beshay. Here's how things look heading into Level 25:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,000,000
1,200,000
|
1,200,000 |
|
|
2,200,000 | |
|
|
2,100,000
-900,000
|
-900,000 |
|
|
650,000
-300,000
|
-300,000 |
|
|
||
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Mark Bowersock open-jammed the button with the 
for about 350,000.
Peter Beshay called with 
and hit the unnecessary ace on the turn to send Bowersock home fifth. And then there were four.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,000,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 24
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 3,000
Level 23
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
In the hand before the break, Guy Klass made it 85,000 and both Peter Beshay and Erik Christensen called. It checked to Klass on the 
flop and he continued for 125,000.
Both players called and the turn came the 
. All three players checked. The river brought the 
and Beshay led for 125,000. Christensen shoved 700,000 and after Klass folded, Beshay called with the 
full boat.
Christensen had the 
trips and after he took his leave, Beshay grabbed the chip lead five-handed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,600,000
1,170,000
|
1,170,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 23
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
Michael Malm doubled through Erik Christensen, getting it in with the 
versus the 
.
Christensen flopped a flush draw, but Malm faded it before he even knew it.
In the meantime, with Level 23 coming to a close, the players have unanimously agreed to take a ten minute break and come back to play two more 60-minute levels - At least.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,000,000
-850,000
|
-850,000 |
|
|
600,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
|
||
Level 23
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
Damian Baird shoved for 450,000 in the small blind over an Erik Christensen button raise. Anne Jones re-shoved the big blind with the 
.
Christensen folded and Baird's tournament life was riding on the 
.
Jones nailed a king on the 
to win the classic race, bounce Baird and take the chip lead six-handed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,000,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
Busted |