RunGood Poker Series Harrah's North Kansas City: Joe Becchina Tops 1b, William McCracken Bags Biggest on 1c
The end of the second day of the 2016 RunGood Poker Series in Harrah's North Kansas City, saw two chipleaders — Joe Becchina (1b) and William McCracken (1c).
While the 1b flight started at noon, Day 1c started late in the evening to give players a final option to qualify for Day 2.
The Day 1b flight drew 86 entrants. After 12 levels of action, the field was trimmed to 20 surviving players moving on to Sunday's Day 2 with Joe Becchina (photo, left) leading the field.
Becchina was hovering around the average stack entering the last orbit of play, but went on a run winning the last seven hands in a row. He even woke up with pocket aces on the last hand against Thomas Houston to secure the chip lead.
The surviving stacks are a lot closer to normal compared to Friday night's monster stacks bagging up. Friday had four players over the 200,000-chip mark but Saturday's early flight saw just three other player players bag up six figures - Steve Kim, Andy Ziskin and Travis Burch.
It wasn't a good flight for RunGood Pros with Jonathan Gaviao, Ray Henson and Clint Tolbert hitting the rail.
The third and final flight, Day 1c, of the RunGood Poker Main Event wrapped up after drawing 76 entrants - pushing the overall number of entrants to 252. Following another 12 levels of action, only 16 players remained to bag up chips at the end of the night and William McCracken (photo, right) lead the field with 194,500.
Only five other players from Day 1C cracked the six-figure mark; which contrasts Day 1A where half the survivors had century plus stacks. Maruti Cherakupally, Mike White, Andre Allen, Mike Adams and Zeki Tarim all crossed 100,000 chips.
Mike Adams entered the final two levels of the night with less than 10 big blinds and played his way to the top of the leaderboard by the end of the night.
Andre Allen was above average during the final hours of play, but hit a huge hand at the end of the night when his pocket eights beat out two opponents, sending one to the rail and chipping him up to over 160,000.
Looking back at the Day 1 flights, here are the numbers:
| Day | Entrants | Survivors |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1A | 97 | 16 |
| Day 1B | 79 | 20 |
| Day 1C | 76 | 16 |
| Total | 252 | 52 |
Sunday has 52 players returning to action with 27 spots that pay. The first level will be 1,500/3,000 with a 500-ante. Day 2 gets underway at noon and Sunday and they'll play down until they crown a winner. Follow all the RunGood action right here at PokerNews.
| Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Nye | 261,500 |
| Joe Becchina | 246,000 |
| Jay McVeigh | 235,500 |
| Justin Young | 229,500 |
| Tim Woodson | 214,000 |
| Rick McGown | 201,000 |
| William McCracken | 194,500 |
| Maruti Cherakupally | 175,000 |
| Andre Allen | 165,500 |
| Ali Zakeri | 160,500 |
| Steve Kim | 137,000 |
| Mike White | 131,500 |
| Andy Ziskin | 122,000 |
| Mark Fink | 116,500 |
| Travis Burch | 115,500 |
| Zeki Tarim | 106,000 |
| Mike Adams | 103,000 |
| Brian Andrews | 97,500 |
| Carter Clond | 97,000 |
| Craig Dick | 94,500 |
| Kelly Johnson | 92,500 |
| Shane Raikes | 92,000 |
| Nick Burriss | 91,500 |
| Alex Marler | 87,500 |
| Shane Fuller | 86,500 |
| Frank Mondello | 84,000 |
| Chris Battaglia | 82,500 |
| Jeff Foust | 82,000 |
| Justin Brooks | 79,000 |
| John Mullenax | 73,500 |
| Kurt Haiss | 72,000 |
| Cash Carpenter | 65,500 |
| Doug Glasscock | 65,500 |
| William Monie | 61,500 |
| Debbie Phillips | 57,000 |
| Papa Karn | 56,000 |
| Greg Jennings | 54,500 |
| Charles Lehman | 54,000 |
| Bill Cole | 53,500 |
| Rob Palacios | 52,500 |
| Mark Von Schlemmer | 49,500 |
| Jasen Currie | 46,000 |
| Mike McAdams | 46,000 |
| Patrick Hanson | 44,500 |
| Peter Gardner | 44,000 |
| Chris Juul | 39,000 |
| Devon Parnell | 38,500 |
| Thomas Houston | 35,000 |
| Sean Lindsey | 34,500 |
| Jerry Quinn | 28,000 |
| Mason Hinkle | 21,500 |
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