Lucas Hill On Top of the Mountain as 24 Survive Day 1a of the $440 Mini Main Event at Run It Up Reno IX
Day 1a of the series-opening, $100,000 Guaranteed $440 Mini Main Event here at Run It Up Reno IX saw 145 entrants hit the felt in search of a Day 2 bag. After nearly fifteen levels of play, 24 players survived, and it was Lucas Hill leading the way with a stack of 521,000 after a late surge near the end of the night.
Run It Up founder Jason Somerville cruised along for most of the day, before he and Run It Up Reno VIII Pro Bounty champ Jim Petzing both fell after a pair-over-pair-over-pair cooler at the hands of Hill, which propelled him over the 300,000 chip marker. Hill then began to apply relentless pressure on his table over the last level of play, adding a few hundred thousand in chips to his stack before ending the night.
Rounding out the top three are Tyler Burke (430,000), and Run It Up Reno VIII 6-Max 8-Game Championship winner Nick Kiley (378,000) while Jon "PearlJammed" Turner (221,000), Ricky "ratedGTO" Guan (82,000), and Team partypoker Pro Patrick Tardif (78,000) also managed to work their way through the field to make it to Sunday's Day 2 and guarantee a cash.
Some of those unable to make it through the day include former Survivor champ Tyson Apostol, Twitch streamers Vanessa Kade and Arlie Shaban, and bubble boy Carlo Vitale.
Players who didn't find a bag today will have one more chance to make it to Sunday's Day 2, as Day 1b of the $440 Mini Main Event kicks off at Noon on Saturday, October 12th. Players will again receive 25,000 in starting chips, with late registration and unlimited re-entry available through the dinner break after Level 11, or approximately 7 p.m. local time. All players who make it through to Day 2 will return at Noon on Sunday, October 13th to play down to a winner, and players will resume play at the earlier of the two Day 1 stop times. (Day 1a ended with 2:08 remaining in Level 15.)
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flop, and although his opponent picked up a gutshot Broadway draw on the 
turn, the 
river bricked off to earn Petzing the KO.
flop to Mouawad, who bet 4,000. Gribben check-raised to 11,000 from the big blind, and Mouawad three-bet shoved for 41,000. Gribben quickly called.
turn, giving him any heart, ace, four or three for outs. The 
turn, and he was already stacking up his chips when the 
hit the river.
board, and he earned the double.
flop together, and action checked to the player in middle position, who bet 1,200 into a pot of 2,500. Carlos Pal, who won a freeroll here at Run It Up Reno VII last year for a PokerStars Platinum Pass, called from the cutoff, and the blinds both folded.
fell on the river. The middle position player checked, and Pal bet 3,300. Pal's opponent folded.
board, a player in the big blind bet 2,000, and Andrew Smith reraised all in for his last 12,000.
river was checked again by the middle position player. Guan bet 9,000, and the middle position player check-raised all in for around 20,000, which Guan snapped off.
for a flush, and Guan rolled over