Jeffrey Roth Wins Summer Slam's $200 Rentry For $8,992
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Canada's Jeffrey Roth took down the 2017 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam $200 No-Limit Hold'em reentry event at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino Sunday night.
The 44-year-old Kitchener, Ontario school teacher was short stacked when the lion's share of the prize pool was chopped up eight-handed. As a result, he took less money in the deal. However, he fought back to take the lead four-handed, and when it came time to chop again, he made a deal ensuring he would walk away the event's champion and its biggest money winner as well.
Four starting flights in the event drew 520 entries Friday and Saturday, smashing the $50,000 guarantee and creating an $83,981 prizepool.
The flights sent 77 survivors into the final day Sunday, and they reached the 54-player money bubble rather quickly. The action rose with the blinds, and by the time they reached the ten-handed final table, talk of a chop became quite serious.
The stacks were shallow and the opportunity to take decent guaranteed money over flipping coins for a chance at only a few thousand more seemed too good to pass up. Ultimately, it was for the group that remained eight-handed. They gave chip leader Mark Roberts $6,000, the two shorter stacks $4,500 and five players $5,000 each. All in all it was not a bad take from a $200 buy-in event.
They did leave some $16,000 to play for, and after twice making plans on how to distribute that, they ended up four-handed and chopped it up almost evenly. Of course, Roth took little extra to make up for what he'd given away before, and because he had built such a big lead.
Roth certainly played like a champ at the final table, and now that it's over, he'll go down in the books as a deserving one.
That ends PokerNews' coverage of the $200 Rentry, but the Seneca Summer Slam tournament series continues Monday with the first of six starting flights in a $25,000 Guaranteed $125 Reentry Event beginning at 10 a.m. local time. Join us then for a slice of the action from Niagara Falls, NY.