Poker legend and Hall of Famer Scotty Nguyen, a Tulsa local, has made an appearance at the Hard Rock and has taken his seat over the break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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30,000 | |
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Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
With the close of registration, the level times in Day 1b have been increased from 30 to 40 minutes.
With 188 total entries, registration for the second flight for the RGPS Tulsa Main is officially closed. Only 69 players currently remain and they will play until 23 are left, at which point they will stop and bag up.
In 19 stops throughout the country, the RunGood Poker Series paid out just over $1.4 million in prizes to its winners in 2023.
The biggest win of the year went to Tyler Patterson,who beat out a field of 477 entrants in the $2,500 Checkpoint Season Finale at Thunder Valley in July.
The big score of $200,422 is the current record for the largest RGPS cash to date.
Another standout was RGPS Reno winner Stacey Berger, a newcomer to the poker scene that beat out a field of 359 to win $39,655 in the second Main Event she had ever played. Berger, a realtor in Reno by trade, won the title after she came back from just two big blinds in the middle part of Day 2.
Check out a list of the 2023 RGPS Main Event winners:
| Month | Event | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | RGPS Tulsa | Pete Petree | $62,911 |
| February | RGPS San Diego | Rafi Azam | $52,820 |
| March | RGPS Tunica | Kevin Broadway | $46,804 |
| March | RGPS Graton | Pe Kyaw | $90,330 |
| April | RGPS Jacksonville | Antwan Prince | $92,796 |
| April | RGPS Joplin | Dakotah O'Dell | $63,647 |
| April | RGPS Council Bluffs | Joshua Kopp | $68,799 |
| May | RGPS Reno | Stacey Berger | $39,655 |
| May | RGPS Kansas City | Andre Allen | $86,550 |
| July | RGPS Thunder Valley | Tyler Patterson | $200,422 |
| September | RGPS Baltimore | Ari Katz | $47,724 |
| October | RGPS St. Louis | Keith Heine | $88,506 |
| October | RGPS Tulsa | Tyler Barnes | $52,692 |
| October | RGPS Kansas City | William McCracken | $83,099 |
| October | RGPS Graton | Anne Bui | $87,425 |
| November | RGPS Cleveland | Louis Ganser | $102,225 |
| November | RGPS Tunica | Jack Keller | $62,826 |
| November | RGPS San Diego | Derrick Yamada | $31,565 |
| November | RGPS Iowa | Cody Bartlett | $63,305 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
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The players in Day 1b of the main event are now on a 15-minute break and registration for this flight will be closed upon their return. The black 100-chips will also be raced off and colored up at this time.
On a heads-up flop of 2♣7♠6♠, Michael Shuptraine checks to Shantanu Garg who bets 6,000, but then Shuptraine check-raises all in for around 17,000.
After some thought, Garg made the call to put him at risk and tabled A♥Q♥, needing to improve against the 6♥7♥ of Shuptraine.
Unfortunately for Shuptraine, the turn was the A♣ to give Garg top pair, and the river was the 2♥, pairing the board to give him a superior two pair.
"Gahh!, that's like the fourth time you've done that to me!" Shuptriane sighed heavily as he exited the tournament area and his chips were given to Garg.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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81,000 | |
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Busted |
Level: 8
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
