$600 Main Event | 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam

Kurtis Boutelle busted a player calling down a three barrell bluff with top pair on a ten-high board, then he bluffed Brett Collson off a set on a super-wet board to win a more-than 40,000-chip pot.

He's now got over 180,000 and will be taking the chip lead into a 45-minute dinner break that starts in just a few minutes.

Play will resume at approximately 7 p.m. local time, and when it does, the registration and reentry period will officially close.

They go to dinner with the board reading 262 entries with 147 remaining.

Maria Parlatore was down to three chips. Her little golden green frog card protector was bigger than the stack. One yellow, two blacks: 5,200.

The she more than doubled it with eights, making a set. A little while later, jacks did the trick, as she got it all in three ways against the and the the , holding to triple.

She's now on 65,000. A stack significantly taller than the frog now.

Paolo Lombardo has grabbed the chip lead heading into the last level before the 45-minute dinner break.

He four-bet nines, and when his heads-up opponent five bet shoved aces, he called it off and binked a nine.

In the meantime, a suddenly assertive Brett Collson is picking up pot after pot with some well timed aggression.

A little earlier he got aces in a battle of the blinds with Kurtis Boutelle and showed the goods after getting one bet in pre and continuing on the flop. Then, he was just seen firing away trough three streets on a board, getting a fold on the river to pick up another 35,000 on his way to a spot near the top of the counts.

Chris Harker raised it up with aces and a player behind three bet. There was one cold caller and Harker four-bet to 10,000.

The three-bettor jammed 18,000, the cold caller folded and Harker snap-called with aces against ace-king. Aces held without much drama and he's got a six-figure stack now.

Joining him near the top of the leaderboard is Grand Island, NY's Russ Hall, who kept calling down bets with the best of it until he had 115,000 in his stack, and Toronto, Canada's Michael Tieu, who is simply "destroying" on the way to 106,000.

Paul "The Barnacle" McLean is still clinging on to the chip lead like it's the side of a boat, and Kurtis Boutelle is treading water nearby at the top of the counts, but the man who finished runner-up to Boutelle in the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic has also been spotted in the room building a threatening stack.

They've got Nathan Torrance and his 85,000-chip stack tucked way in the back corner of a very busy poker room floor.

Every table in the Niagara Falls Poker Room is either full or being filled nearing the end of Level 7 with 228 entries on the board already.

Plus, registration and reentry is still open for three more levels and a 45-minute dinner break.

Players came to fire today, the cash games are also buzzing here with huge waiting lists, and Day 1b of the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam Main Event is getting ready to post a big number for entries and reentries as they move forward into Level 8.

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