The Run It Up Reno IX $600 Main Event is down to the final table of nine from a record 760-entry field.
Jordan Spurlin will begin the day as the chip leader with a massive 6,715,000 stack, which is more than a third of the chips in play.
Colton Blomberg (5,265,000) is the other big stack at the table, with more than 100 big blinds when play resumes with 10:09 in Level 25 with the blinds at 25000/50000/50000.
Vincent Newland, who came into Day 2 as the overall chip leader, comes back to the final table third in chips (2,845,000), with Sung Song in fourth (2,400,000).
One of those players will take home the championship and the first-place prize of $66,000. That figure is a record for the Run Up Reno Main Event, which drew an all-time high of 720 entries.
Final Table Lineup
Name
Table
Seat
Chip Count
Khoa Tran
Feature
1
875,000
Voislav Ivanovski
Feature
2
1,605,000
Daniel Sisemore
Feature
3
915,000
Sung Song
Feature
4
2,400,000
Bohao Zhu
Feature
5
1,075,000
Jordan Spurlin
Feature
6
6,715,000
Vincent Newland
Feature
7
2,845,000
Colton Blomberg
Feature
8
5,265,000
Jon Swift
Feature
9
1,515,000
Day 3 commences at noon Monday but the final table will be streamed with a dynamic delay on https://www.twitch.tv/runitup, beginning at 3 p.m. The PokerNews live updates will coincide with the stream, so join us then as we capture all the action on the way to crowning a RIU Reno IX Main Event champion.
On just the second hand of the final table, Vincent Newland opened for 110,000 holding the in the hijack and Colton Blomberg called from the cutoff with the . Voislav Ivanovski came along from the big blind with the and it was three-way action to the flop.
Two checks opened the door for Blomberg to bet 185,000 with his flush and straight draws, and Ivanovski responded by check-raising to 500,000. Newland folded and Blomberg paused for a few beats before just calling.
After the dealer burned and turned the , Ivanovski moved all in for his last 945,000 and Blomberg snap-called with the flush.
Ivanovski was drawing dead and watched helplessly as the peeled off on the river.
Jon Swift raised to 160,000 from the hijack only to have Sung Song three-bet jam for 980,000 from the button. Both blinds folded and Swift asked for an exact count before making the call for about a third of his stack.
Sung Song:
Jon Swift:
It was a flip and Song was looking to hold to score the double. The flop kept him in the lead but did give Swift counterfeit outs.
However, it was the on the turn that gave Swift the lead with tens and nines. The river was no help to Song and he hit the rail in sixth place.
Action folded to Colton Blomberg raised to 200,000 from the small blind only to have Jon Swift three-bet to 800,000 from the big blind. Blomberg responded by four-bet jamming and Swift, who had around 3.3 million total, hit the tank. He thought long and hard before opting to call off.
Colton Blomberg:
Jon Swift:
Swift's best shot at doubling was to catch an ace, though the also meant a third seven would do it. Unfortunately for him, neither the turn nor river were what he needed and Swift bowed out in fourth place.
Jordan Spurlin opened to 500,000 from the button, Vincent Newland three-bet shoved for 5,600,000, and Spurlin quickly called.
Vincent Newland:
Jordan Spurlin:
Board: .
Newland flopped a gutshot straught draw, and Spurlin two pair. No improvement came for Newland's hand, and Jordan Spurlin is the winner of the Main Event!
The Run It Up Reno IX $600 Main Event began with 760 runners – a RIU record – and on Monday the final nine returned to the Peppermill Resort to battle down to a winner. That ended up being a familiar face at RIU Reno in Jordan Spurlin.
“It feels pretty good. I’ve had a few deep runs but I’ve always ended up getting third or fourth in the main, so feels great,” Spurlin said after the win. “Third [RIU] trophy overall though, so pretty happy about that.”
The $66,000 first-place prize also marked a career-high score for Spurlin.
“I was trying to get it this summer, but no luck there. Just come to Reno and you can do it.”
Prior to the win, Spurlin’s best cash was $51,559 for finishing fifth in the 2017 World Series of Poker Event #41: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha. He also took sixth in the 2019 WSOP Event #60: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better for $47,118.
“Mission accomplished,” Spurlin added. “It’s always a little bit brutal because the biggest pay jump is always the last one, so if you don’t win the tournament it’s a little bit unfortunate. It feels great.”
Final Table Results
Place
Player
Prize
1
Jordan Spurlin
$66,000
2
Vincent Newland
$40,200
3
Colton Blomberg
$27,000
4
Jon Swift
$19,600
5
Daniel Sisemore
$15,100
6
Sung Song
$12,200
7
Bohao “Andy” Zhu
$10,080
8
Voislav Ivanovski
$8,328
9
Khoa Tran
$6,750
Final Table Action
The day couldn’t have gotten off to a faster start as two players fell in the first two hands of play. Khoa Tran was the first to bust losing a flip with pocket fives to Daniel Sisemore’s ace-jack, and then Voislav Ivanovski followed him out the door after he bluffed the turn out of the big blind only to see Colton Blomberg roll over a club flush.
Not long after, Bohao “Andy” Zhu raised with kings and was called by Blomberg, who promptly flopped trip aces holding ace-deuce in the big blind. Blomberg check-called Zhu’s shove and the former locked it up when the turn improved him to a full house.
Sung Song took his leave after losing a flip with pocket threes to Jon Swift’s ace-ten all in preflop, and then Sisemore failed to win a flop of his own getting it in preflop holding ace-king suited and bricking against Vincent Newland’s two black tens.
Swift was next to go failing to get luck with ace-seven against Blomberg’s pocket jacks, and then a marathon three-handed match ensued. The chips rotated between the triumvirate before the short-stacked Blomberg jammed the button with ten-deuce only to have Spurlin re-jam from the small blind and hold with pocket fours.
Spurlin began heads-up play with a healthy lead and it didn’t take long for the chips to go in. Newland held queen-jack but was dominated by the ace-queen of Spurlin. Newland failed to get lucky and had to settle for second place and $40,200 in prize money.
Jason Somerville and company will return to the Peppermill Resort from April 3-13, 2020 for the 10th edition of Run It Up Reno!
Here's a look at all those who won trophies at the RIU Reno IX: