2016 Card Player Poker Tour Seneca Niagara Fall Poker Classic -- 300 Total Entries Build $264,810 Prize PoolThe Top 27 Finishers Will Make The Money With $64,882 For The Eventual Champion |
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Registration is officially closed in the 2016 Card Player Poker Tour Seneca Fall Poker Classic $1,000 no-limit hold’em main event. With a total turnout of 300 entries the prize pool easily surpassed the $200,000 guarantee, growing to $264,810. The top 27 players will make the money in this event, with a min-cash of $2,013 and a first-place prize of $64,882. The eventual champion of this event will not only win the top prize and the trophy, they will also grace the cover of an upcoming issue of Card Player magazine!
Day 1A of the event drew 121 entries, with 24 players surviving to day 2. Day 1B saw 179 total entries, with 33 players making it through to the next stage. The overall chip leader heading into day 2 is Jeffrey Hobrecker with 437,500. Close behind is day 1A chip leader Alex Visbisky with 434,000. Visbisky finished third in this event last year, but he was not the only player from the 2015 final table to get off to a good start again this year.
Defending champion of the Seneca Fall Classic Kurtis Boutelle ended day 1B with 281,000 in chips, good enough for a top-ten stack heading into day 2. Boutelle topped a field of 291 entries in 2015 to win $62,933.
The remaining 57 players will combine into one field for day 2, which resumes with the start of level 16 at 11 a.m. local time.
Here is a look at the complete list of chip counts heading into day 2:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Jeffrey Hobrecker | 437,500 |
| 2 | Alex Visbisky | 434,000 |
| 3 | Dan Wagner | 346,000 |
| 4 | Veerab Zarkanian | 343,500 |
| 5 | Jay Clark | 336,000 |
| 6 | Sean Gomez | 331,500 |
| 7 | Kurtis Boutelle | 281,000 |
| 8 | Barry Trembetzky | 272,500 |
| 9 | Vinnie Ho | 248,000 |
| 10 | Robert Petronio | 247,000 |
| 11 | Joseph Elhage | 247,000 |
| 12 | Mark Allott | 246,500 |
| 13 | Frank Monaco | 245,500 |
| 14 | David Olshan | 242,500 |
| 15 | Nicholas Potwora | 209,500 |
| 16 | Brian Bowen | 200,000 |
| 17 | Colin Padgett | 186,000 |
| 18 | Alex Rivera | 177,500 |
| 19 | Chris Gras | 169,000 |
| 20 | William Lewandowski | 159,500 |
| 21 | Mario Argentieri | 158,000 |
| 22 | John Macdonald | 155,500 |
| 23 | Barb Rogers | 155,000 |
| 24 | Paul McLean | 154,500 |
| 25 | Chris Molica | 152,500 |
| 26 | Hayden Glassman | 149,000 |
| 27 | Steve Calvaneso | 145,500 |
| 28 | Chris Barton | 137,000 |
| 29 | Tadeusz Blaszczak | 124,000 |
| 30 | Michael Shavensky | 121,000 |
| 31 | Cameron Bartolotta | 113,500 |
| 32 | Jack Depasquale | 112,000 |
| 33 | Yiuho Leung | 109,500 |
| 34 | Maurice Sessum | 108,500 |
| 35 | Damian Baird | 98,500 |
| 36 | Peter Bogulski | 97,500 |
| 37 | Matthew Fergenbaum | 95,000 |
| 38 | Paula Alibrandi | 94,000 |
| 39 | Sharman Olshan | 92,000 |
| 40 | Brian Bordinaro | 86,500 |
| 41 | James Girdlestone | 83,500 |
| 42 | Matt Marcinkiewicz | 83,000 |
| 43 | Paul Bitterman | 82,000 |
| 44 | Kim Batka | 79,500 |
| 45 | Julie Wilfong | 76,500 |
| 46 | Joseph Latona | 75,500 |
| 47 | Kimlong Trieu | 75,000 |
| 48 | Jeremy Joseph | 75,000 |
| 49 | Kristan Mackiewicz | 74,500 |
| 50 | Amin Akhlaghi | 67,000 |
| 51 | Jordan Lagano | 65,500 |
| 52 | Matt Shanahan | 64,500 |
| 53 | David Battaglia | 63,000 |
| 54 | Omid Azadpeyma | 62,000 |
| 55 | Andy Spears | 54,500 |
| 56 | John Araujo | 39,000 |
| 57 | Dennis Durante | 26,500 |
The Seneca Gaming and Entertainment poker room is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the first floor of the Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel. The 23-table room features 13 big screen televisions, free wifi, free drinks, free parking, player rewards and spreads a large selection of hold’em, stud and Omaha games. The gaming floor offers roughly 4,000 slot machines, table games and keno.
The world-class gaming facility opened in 2002 as the result of an $80 million remodel of the Niagara Falls Convention and Civic Center into a full-service casino. The property also features fine dining, star-studded entertainment, a health and wellness spa and many other premium guest amenities. For more information, or to book a room, call 716-299-1100 or visit the casino homepage.
To learn more about the CPPT and see other upcoming tour stops, visit the tour’s homepage.
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