Matt Lambrecht Bags Big With 48 Players Left in RunGood Poker Series $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event
Day 1a of The RunGood Poker Series $1,100 Main Event at Seminole Coconut Creek Casino sees 48 players advance to Day 2 out of the 171 entries.
At the top of the chip counts is Matt Lambrecht with 362,000. Lambrecht became the chip leader around Level 9 after winning a massive pot in which he rivered a flush against two pair and just continued to build as the night progressed. He stands as the only player to have crossed the 300,000 chip threshold.
Following behind him are Ray Henson with 266,500 and Shalom Elharar with 238,500. Both players will be looking to continue amassing chips as the players reconvene on Sunday.
| Name | Chip Count | |
| 1 | Matthew Lambrecht | 362,000 |
| 2 | Ray Henson | 266,500 |
| 3 | Shalom Elharar | 238,500 |
| 4 | Kyle Kranz | 225,000 |
| 5 | John Dolinger | 201,500 |
| 6 | Jerry Wong | 167,000 |
| 7 | Jacob Ristich | 160,000 |
| 8 | Nicholas Velentzas | 155,000 |
| 9 | Samuel Phillips | 145,000 |
| 10 | Pasi Lahinen | 144,000 |
Also bagging were bracelet winners Loni Harwood(66,500) and Yuval Bronshtein(118,500) as well as Jerry Wong(167,000), Scott Baumstein(101,500) and Chris Conrad(100,500). The structure is best stack forward so any player who bagged today will have the option to forfeit their stack today if they find a bigger one the next day.
Some of those who were less fortunate during the day included bracelet winners Phillip Hui and Athanasios Polychronopoulos, as well as Nick Yunis, Jake Schwartz, Jeff Platt, and last year's runner-up Timothy “T.K.” Miles. They will have to enter into Day 1b or 1c to keep their chances in this tournament alive.
PokerNews will be on the floor with all of the updates on this tournament the following starting days as well as its conclusion this Sunday.
with the flop bringing a set of fives to Amato, but the turn was where Restich pulled ahead by hitting a set of his own. Amato tapped the table and left the tournament area
sealed his fate with the river 
being just a formality and shook hands with his tablemates before exiting the tournament area. 
with three-way action between Nadya Magnus, Shlom Eldarar and one shorter stack. The short stack moved all-in for 37,000 and Eldarar called with Magnus behind. Magnus moved all-in for 77,000 total and Eldarar went into the tank. After about one minute he tossed his hand 
provided some additional equity for the overpair in the form of a straight draw, but the river 
did not improve the aces and Magnus' set of fours was good for the pot and put her stack at nearly 200,000 chips.
, Ray Henson bet into an opponent to the tune of 22,000. The player raised all-in and Henson called, tabling his hand. 
turn which saw the big blind check-fold to Burchfield, who added another pot to his growing chip stack.
giving no improvement to the jacks and Lucas' had her opponent just covered by 1,000 chips with her 34,100.
