Million Dollar Main Event Day 1a | 2023 RGPS Checkpoint Thunder Valley

07-28-2023 15:14 UTC-7

Geiger Counters Nut Flush

Kirk Brown

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

On a heads-up completed board of 4♦9♣10♦4♦5♦, Gregory Geiger moved all in for his last 15,000 and it was over to Richard Spirra to make a decision.

After a few seconds, Spirra made the call and tabled A♦3♦ for an ace-high flush, but was then shown 10♣10♥ by Geiger for the nut full house to take down the large pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gregory Geiger	110,000 82,000	82,000
Richard Spirra	48,000 8,400	8,400

Tags: Gregory Geiger Richard Spirra

07-28-2023 14:56 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Lexy Gavin-Mather	40,000 40,000	40,000
Stephen Song	40,000 40,000	40,000

Jesse Lonis	40,000 40,000	40,000

Jared Jaffee	40,000

On a heads-up turn of 7♦2♦7♠J♥, Joe Nguyen led out for 2,000 into the pot of 11,000 and the player in the lojack made the call. The player on the button then bumped it up to 6,000 and Nguyen made the call, but then the lojack moved all in for 66,000.

The button got out of the way and Nguyen only hesitated for a few seconds before making the call to put his opponent at risk.

Opponent: 2♥2♣
Joe Nguyen: 7♥8♦

Nguyen had a strong hand with trip sevens, but his opponent already had him beat with his flopped full house of deuces full. Miraculously, the 7♣ smacked on the river to give Nguyen quads and sent his opponent to the rail as he rocketed up to 150,000.

"Wow, yeah, I really thought he just had ace-jack of diamonds," Nguyen admitted as he stacked his new chips.

In a wild twist, the "opponent" turned out to be WSOP sideline reporter and PokerGO legendary commentator and all-around good guy, Jeff Platt. Let the record also show that Platt was a good sport and gave Nguyen a fist bump before making his way to the exit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Nguyen	150,000 106,500	106,500
Jeff Platt	Busted

Tags: Jeff Platt Joe Nguyen

Level: 4

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 500

07-28-2023 13:55 UTC-7

Serious Discussion Only at Table 40

Kirk Brown

Level 3 : 200/400, 400 ante

On a multi-way flop of 5♣5♦A♣, action checked all the way around to Bob Mather in the cutoff who tossed out a bet of 800 and found little resistance as each player folded.

Meanwhile, Rob Mariano and Mather debated on if Travis Kelce is better than Rob Gronkowski. They also admitted they are both jealous of tablemate Ben Ludlow as he is attending Taylor Swift tomorrow night.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bob Mather	80,000 40,000	40,000
Rob Mariano	58,000 18,000	18,000
Ben Ludlow	48,000 8,000	8,000

07-28-2023 13:28 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

Kirk Brown

Level 3 : 200/400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Richard Fifield	138,000
Sorin Cristea	117,800
Paul Sampson	112,800

Ariel Reid	101,000
Daniel Mcgee	98,500
Shijia Liu	92,500
Jin Kim	91,300
Roman Shainiuk	82,000
Robert Mather	82,000
Adam Miller	80,600
Matthew Foster	80,100
Michael Harris	77,700
Teng Vang	75,000
Alexander Rodriguez	73,000
Albert Sanchez Jr	70,400
Baljinder Bhupal	68,500
Jerome Dean	66,500
Miralem Mujkic	65,300 17,300	17,300
Marcelo Carvalho	64,700
Gregg Rothberig	64,000
Christopher Ewing	63,800
Alejandro Jauregui Reynoso	62,300
Aaron Overton	61,400
William Murray	61,300
Primo Acoba	60,800

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Level: 3

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

07-28-2023 13:03 UTC-7

Break Time

Kirk Brown

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

The players are now on their first scheduled 15-minute break and will return to action shortly.

07-28-2023 12:55 UTC-7

Lom Check-Jams Turn

Kirk Brown

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

On a three-way board that read 5♣5♥3♣7♣, Vanna Lom checked to Miralem Mujkic who bet 6,000 and was called by Robert Anderson.

Then when it got back to Lom he decided to check-jam all in for 25,300 to which Mujkic quickly folded. Anderson then thought about it for a good while before finally shaking his head and sliding his cards into the muck to award the pot to Lom.